Redemption Song [323 Hands / +$60.75]

Posted by icemonkey9 on Aug 28, 2008 in General | 0 comments

I had Redemption Song in my head today for some reason when I was driving around getting some stuff done for work (banking mainly). Seems appropraite that today I title it for my AM post here in my blog. After last night's bloodbath (and some good debate on the CC forums about the hands) I was able to put together 2 solid sessions.

Game: 25nl 6max , Pokerstars, 4 tables per session
Sessions: 2
Hands: 323
Duration: 64 minutes total
End Result: +$60.75

Good stuff. The running total since I moved to 6max on 8/23/08 ...

Hands: 1,468
Profit: +$109.50
bb/100: 14.92

Some hands from the 323 hands ...

Jedi hand reading skills at work ... aka I learned my lession from last night.

Villains in this hand are 41/6/1 (30 hands) and 67/33/inf (3 hands) ... I make a raise (not so big) but it's flatted (interesting to see that it was the AA dude) and then shoved. Yeah obviously my QQ is no good ... I figured SOMEONE had me crushed. Good thing I was right. Just ridiculous at 6max that you see AA vs KK vs QQ. Crazy odds.

AA Holds ... aka my ass saved on the river.

Yeah. Got my assed saved on the river when I made a brutal read. I put him on something like AK or KT or TT but not KQ or QJ or KJ for some reason. Yet again I see a player at this level make a min raise at the flop (or turn) with a monster. Crazy. Anyways I figured even if he had 2 pair I had any A or T to give me the win (6 outs) and potential outs in the board pairing that didn't give him a boat but gave me a better two pair (3 more outs) for a total of 9 outs. So I stack, and my worst case scenario was true, but I hit one of those outs and won.

Good solid read here, wasn't buying what he was selling.

This guy called me down to the river. Hard to explain but I figured with this kind of flop he was floating me with some sort of sexy over cards like AQ, AJ, KQ. I put no faith in him having 79. The brick hits on the river and he check-raises all in. How on earth does that make any sense? 88 wouldn't have done that, no set would have (especially on the turn with the potential flush draw). I just wasn't buying it, I had to call and I did. I win.

Why You Should Raise PPs in an Unraised Pot Preflop.

Such a gorgeous flop ... I was so happy to see it. I had that one sexy over card flop and had middle set. Someone would be stupid out of 3 villains. My bet sizing was a little low on the flop because I was hoping for a raise and to get it in there. At the river I decided not to get cute and considering the 3rd spade hit I am kind of surprised he called this shove.