Thursday’s 2nd Session

Posted by icemonkey9 on Jun 27, 2008 in General | 2 comments

Thursday's 2nd session went "well" but I was not happy at all when I left playing. Thanks to one lucky hand I ended up in the positive (that hand is below), otherwise the way you can look at it is that I was up $32 in 16 minutes ... and managed to donk half of that off by the end of the session.

Session 2 from Thursday:
Hands: 168
Tables: 4
Time: 43 minutes
End Result: +$14.90

So on the day as a whole I ended up about +$40 which is real nice. Lets take a look at those weird hands.

Hand 1: Why was he in this hand in the first place?!

OK I have adjusted my game that if i have suited 1-gappers in an unraised pot I'll either limp or raise into it about 25% of the time, with the rest of the time just mucking. This villain's stats are 85/0/1.6 over 60 hands. Juicy right? OOP with AKs I throttle a three bet which is called by one. I put in a healthy bet at the flop with TPTK and I get a flat call. Again I take a shot at it at the turn and he stacks. With his line he could have anything and I'm thinking that TPTK against this guy is probably good. I go for it and call and he turns over .... 68o?!?! Seriously?!?! He calls a PF 3bet for about 8% of his stack with 68o - and got rewarded for it by hitting 2 pair. I'm down to 8 outs and I hit the Ace on the River. Justice is served.

Hand 2: New Strategy Pays Off

In Harrington's cash game book, and from ChuckTs' advise, I've been playing these suited 1 gappers when I can. I limp and love that flop - I have a lot of cards that can help me and don't put either guy on an A. Predictably its checked all around and I fill my flush at the turn. I'm not crazy about a T high flush and I'm taking the risk that another heart won't fall at the river and flat call to build what is otherwise a -EV pot. The 8 comes on the river and he stacks ... and clearly I do not think he has the better flush and since I can beat a good range of hands (55, 77, AA, 44, 88, A2-AK) it's an easy call. He flips over his unlucky 4-8 straight.

Hand 3: Donking 88

I am glad preflop I made the raise because that's the right play 6 handed. I'm trying not to c-bet as much (there was a thread on CC and I was hearing optimal was something like 60 to 65) since my c-bet stat this month was something like 78%. This was probably a case to c-bet so I blew it there. He flat calls the bet at the turn and i see a second over card at the river and for whatever reason double barrel right there. Apparently this guy wasn't thrilled about the flush filling at the turn and made a good flat call at the river with TPTK.

Hand 5: OMG what was I thinking?

Here's a hand I beat myself up on. Sometimes you make the right read but make the wrong decision. Kane has stats of 19/11/2.4 and the SS is a complete unknown (0 stats). I am now in the habit of strongly 3betting AKs PF, and when I saw a 4 bet and a 4bet called I took my time and though "I know one of them has QQ-AA for sure. I think the other has AK or AQ. In that scenario I'm a huge dog, so I better let this one go." Well, I was right ... about one of them, it was 66 (dumb) vs QQ (predictable). In this scenario I'm a definite underdog but a flat call here isn't unreasonable. Of course fate gives me a slap in the face with the A falling at the flop.

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Anyways ... at least I'm in the positive. Looking back at the hands I actually played well and not as bad as I thought leaving the tables.