Damn, I hate derailing my own posts, especially when it’s a big end of year one – skip down to the next post and read the wonderous scribblings there first, then come back and laugh at my play here. I just went on a nice +$36 session, but had some dubious hands;
What does anyone make of this?
A guy with no history shows up and goes aggro all over some poor guy;
5 Players
Stacks:
UTG ($10)
Hero ($18.38)
BTN ($10.15)
SB ($10.36)
BB ($8.96)
Pre-Flop: ($0.15, 5 players)
1 fold, Hero folds, 1 fold, SB raises to $0.40, BB calls $0.30
Flop: 8
9
8 ($0.80, 2 players)
SB bets $0.77, BB calls $0.77
Turn: 2
($2.34, 2 players)
SB bets $2.23, BB calls $2.23
River: Q
($6.80, 2 players)
SB goes all-in $6.96, BB folds
Final Pot: $13.76
SB wins $13.42 (net +$3.06)
BB lost $3.40
Is this value betting? Looks like hammering til they fold type stuff to me. When he’s on a draw though (BB in this hand), he’s much more passive;
5 Players
Stacks:
UTG ($7.84)
Hero ($13.35)
BTN ($10)
SB ($10)
BB ($10)
Pre-Flop: ($0.15, 5 players) Hero is CO J 10
UTG calls $0.10, Hero raises to $0.40, 1 fold, SB calls $0.35, BB calls $0.30, UTG folds
Flop: 5 5 10 ($1.30, 3 players)
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets $1.24, SB raises to $2.68, BB calls $2.68, Hero calls $1.44
Turn: 6 ($9.34, 3 players)
SB checks, BB checks, Hero checks
River: Q ($9.34, 3 players)
SB checks, BB checks, Hero checks
Final Pot: $9.34
Hero shows
J 10
BB shows
A 6
SB shows
2 3
Hero wins $8.88 (net +$5.80)
BB lost $3.08
UTG lost $0.10
SB lost $3.08
So in this next hand where he tangles with me, it’s a drawy board but he doesn’t play it passively. Should I have given the flop reraise more credit, and started thinking I could be up against an overpair or J with better kicker? I called flop since I wasn’t giving him much credit, and figured he was trying to push me off the flop – since I had top pair with good(ish) kicker I figured I was ok.
Then the turn completed the flush that I didn’t think he was on, plus I had a Q, I figured I’d call with the possibility of a decent flush. Finally on the river it was a blank, and since I’d called the turn I could hardly fold to a bet less than pot.
Aggromonkey is UTG;
6 Players
Stacks:
UTG ($13.27)
UTG+1 ($9.70)
CO ($10.20)
Hero ($19.10)
SB ($10.05)
BB ($2.65)
Pre-Flop: ($0.15, 6 players) Hero is BTN J Q
UTG raises to $0.40, 2 folds, Hero calls $0.40, 2 folds
Flop: 3 J 7 ($0.95, 2 players)
UTG bets $0.45, Hero raises to $1.13, UTG raises to $2.15, Hero calls $1.02
Turn: 5 ($5.25, 2 players)
UTG bets $2.49, Hero calls $2.49
River: 7 ($10.23, 2 players)
UTG goes all-in $8.23, Hero calls $8.23
Final Pot: $26.69
Hero shows
J Q
UTG shows
A K
Hero wins $25.69 (net +$12.42)
UTG lost $13.27
He then berated me for making a really bad call (which one? Did he really think the river was a bad call?), and said ‘broke with TPBK’ which was funny since he was the one that went broke with A high.
Still, his point about a big pot with just top pair is kinda valid, but with his hands was I justified in seeing the hand through?
Edit: hmm, actually that river isn’t that blank. Maybe I was lucky on that hand…
