A New Record For Amount Won

Posted by icemonkey9 on Jul 22, 2008 in General | 2 comments

It might look like a heater, but it isn't a full heater right? I haven't had AA vs KK or flopped quads vs a boat, or anything fun like that at all. I just haven't gotten totally sucked out on, but I've avoided those situations entirely. In fact ... I really haven't had any hands that take down entire stacks. I'm just playing decent solid TAG poker and getting into some good tables. There have been some bizaro-world type of hands, but apparently that kind of thing is consistant at Pokerstars.

Stakes: 25nl, 5 Tables
Duration: 89 Minutes
Hands: 356
End Result: + $65.90

The great pokerstars results continue. What I do is try to get in to a table with the best "Players at the Flop" + "Avg Pot" mix, which has been really good. Nothing gets folded around at these tables and I just wait and play the big hands. People call down with really bizarre things. A lot of the time I would steal or raise with a decent hand, get a caller, and then the cbet took it down. It was like clockwork. The double-barrel bluffs worked very well too at this level. Now for some of "just the good stuff" ... which is good because I still look back and see holes on every hand lets look at some hands I won where I didn't like my play. But first, this first hand is for laughs.

Glad I picked up AA against this moron

I'm pretty sensative to the fact that I don't like to insult players at a table or even really in this blog. But this guy was just open shoving, with any "decent" ace. It's non-sensical to me but it was apparently working for him (I did see him take a pot away from someone that called with A4o). Anyways this was a easy call lol ... what was funny was that crisb732002 took 20 seconds to fold his hand.

Another Example of Shocking Play for a Win

Villain has the lovely lines of 44/8/3.7 here. My flop raise should have been for more, but I figured I would only get 1 caller anyways. I did NOT like to see that 10 fall on the turn, but the $2 bet into $13 was so weak I definitely had to call. A final "crap" card falls on the river. I'm beat right? I can't lay a pot down this big to a $1.25 bet. He shows A3.

Set Takes a Nice Pot

Villain is a TAG 13/10/3, and I put him on AK right away. Flop is gorgeous but not perfect. I bet weak to induce a huge bluff on the flop (yes this is me getting tricky). It doesn't work and another scare cards hits fulling the OESD from the flop. No more tricky play and I bet it. A weak raise against my turn bet, and I get a little scared here for no good reason in retrospect. The boat hits the river, dismissing any fears of a straight. The even $5 is a bit of a value bet, if my original read was right it would be very hard for him to call this. I was wrong, he did have the straight with Q8s (apparently a steal attempt gone wrong for him), which really makes me wonder why he didn't raise the river with a stack (unless he had me read for a full house right?)

KK Continues to Hold

Both villains have VPIPs over 33. No joking around at the flop and I bet it well. He leads out with a horrifically bad turn bet, and I throttle a 5x raise (he calls). The river card wasn't thrilling to see since I figured he might have either mid pair (9 or a T) or playing Qx. This is why I called the river, since it looked like he was playing Qx he would have me beat. Instead he turns over JT thankfully.