Today’s Fun: An AA laydown & a sprint to the end of the year

Posted by icemonkey9 on Dec 27, 2008 in General | 3 comments

Today I got in 2 sessions for about 625 hands. Came away +$22 which is nothing big but hey I'll take a winning day and day I can get it! I made a good laydown although it wasn't a very hard one given the board.

AA Laydown

Given the board, like I said earlier, it wasn't hard at all to let this go, in fact I snap folded. Unfortunately it came after I learned my lesson. Take a look at this beauty ...

KK ... ack!

Villain in the hand is a 45/18/2 player over about 100 hands. Obviously, he's showing up with a wide range here. I get check raised for double the pot but only half a stack (not even) so I snapped call this putting him on a combo draw at best. I put the numbers into Pokerazor and saw that my hand is best 91.8% of the time and our equity versus the villain's range is 71%. Pretty compelling evidence to say that I made the right move. BTW the straight represents the top 3.4% of his range. Peachy

Sprint Toward the End

Well I like the fact that PokerStars is doing a bunch of fun free end of year promotions but they all don't affect me at all. I don't have $600 laying around to deposit to get a $150 bonus just to withdrawl back the $600 so I won't be doing that. There's a fun "random person" giveaway where they pick someone at the ring tables (could be me) and give a nice big fat amount of money to that person. I guess my odds are 1-40k on any given moment, so I am not counting on that hitting. I don't play in the millions (I never have time on Sundays) so the super duper $2.5m prize for the tournament doesn't excite me either. Sigh ...

Anyways I am 510 VPPs away from retaining goldstar ... so that's tremendous and I will be grinding my butt off the last few days to clear it.

Random Thoughts

Chuckts put me on to Pokerazor (go to www.pokerazor.com, it's freeware) and I've been using it after my sessions to confirm that moves I make in hands are +EV essentially. For some hands I've actually been surprised how far ahead or behind I really am when I thought it might have been a coinflip spot. If you're into improving and analyzing your play it comes highly recommended, and it's fun to give yourself problems to solve.

Personal Stuff

Christmas was spent with my wife and mom. We opened presants and I got some nifty clothes. My wife got nifty clothes. My mom liked her CD and the fact I got her tickets to a basketball game.