1st Session Today

Posted by icemonkey9 on Jun 27, 2008 in General | 0 comments

Hey welcome back to the blog. I'm really glad people enjoy reading this, I'm certainly getting a lot out of it myself.

Session 1 for Thursday:

Hands: 320
Tables: 4
Time: ~70 mins
End Results: +$25.30

It's been a long ass time since I've come away in a session up a buy-in and it feels *great*. I felt like I was playing better, and even though I managed to dodge some land-mines, still didn't do quite as well as I was hoping. All things considering though I am not down on my effort nor my result. Lets look at some hands ...

Hand 1 : Did I Mess Up?

I was thinking this might be a tough hand so I wanted to bring this up. I flopped an overpair with a lot of pedestrians hoping for a set. Villain is 15/6/8.5 over a lot of hands. I bet it decently at that flop, and either FedK had a better overpair (TT, JJ) or hit a set, or made his hand (56s). It's doubtful he would pull this with AK but it's also within the realm of reason. I hadn't seen him bluff and his stats suggest he's pretty solid. I chose not to call.

Hand 2: Well, I Just Can't Beat THAT Now Can I!

Villain here is 39/18/3.8 over 50 hands. Today I have been alternating between 3x and 4x raises to randomlize my play. I know people have been suggesting just making it always 4x. I guess for some reason I'm reluctant. Anyways, the flop looks great to me ... and I get called. The turn I am not happy about filling the flush, so I check it. The turn is another weird card filling a straight (A5 or 56), and he value bets it and I call it because I'm either ahead against something like 54 or AT, or in a tremendous world of hurt. He flips over flopped quads - wow.

Hand 3: Always Fun

Flopping the nuts is a great feeling. I have no clue why I limped in this pot. With the position that was a huge mistake and should have made it $1.25 to go. Anyways I'm rewarded for my bad play by flopping the nuts. The flat call on the flop was a good idea. I was really hoping the "stewartmann" guy would just stack and get juicar to stack too. Instead we see a 9 hit the turn and for whatever reason he stacked there (not sure why) and its an insta-call for a decent pot.

Hand 4: Man Did He Overplay His Hand

This is why you don't play garbage post-flop. I didn't raise big at all on his flop bet quite honestly hoping he'd call and I'd take it on the turn (that was the plan). A great/scary card hits the turn with the K giving me 2 pair but filling a straight (AT, J9) and he leads with a less than 50% pot bet, so i punish that crap again just under 3x his bet. He calls with a lot of outs (hoping for either the T or a heart) and when nothing hits I make the HUGE mistake of not value-betting (not that it even would have been called).

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Okay, so that wraps Session 1 for tonight. I am pretty sure there will be another!