Another Successful Stars Session

Posted by icemonkey9 on Jul 22, 2008 in General | 0 comments

Man the play at Stars 25nl is *horrible* , and this is during the day before the "average joes" of the world come out and log on having a few beers while donking off their stacks to us good players.

Site/Limit: PokerStars 25nl
Tables: 5
Duration: 41 minutes
Hands: 184
End Result: + $30.65

So I'm up two full 25nl buyins today alone, which is a great thing. No timetable for 50nl, when I get there is when I get there. I just had to share some hands with you all ...

My KK vs Someone from Mars

Again I just love the min 3-bet from the BB with K5o. I mean, really? I have absolutely no explanation outside of "my first time playing poker" or "I was on acid" to explain that maneuver. The 5bet shove is awesome too. Stars doesn't show you the hand until the river, so when I saw the A on the turn I figured I had lost the hand actually (put him on AK). Silly me.

Why Set-Mining is better than Die-Hard Flush-Mining

The min raise at the flop was to induce a stackoff right there. I thought this was going to be a classic TPTK vs made set hand (he would have AJ). Instead the villain stacks off as a 77-23 underdog. Thank goodness I held up