"Is this guy capable of bluffing here and if not what are my chances of winning if I call?"
or 2
betting patterns how do you tell? --- simple answer to the question is: The first thing you should notice about an opponent is anything he does that's out of the ordinary. Does he make an unusually large or small raise,
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Goin to the Drive-Thru
Played a little poka last night more on that later. Went to the Burger King Drive Thru, long line BK dude comes out and asks me to go forward to window they will take my order there. I get to the window bk lady says that will be 9.85, I say I havent ordered she says well you have to come in and order, ah no I'm not doing that we go around a little then i ask for the manager, she says you gotta go inside to see manager I said nope not going inside. So she closes the windows, I take my truck and put it in Park and say "the burger king drie thru is shutdown as of right now!" manager finally shows and 25 secs later I got my food and a happy man.
I made a littl rakeback on UB first time ever recieving it and how sweet it is. Overplayed some JJs when opponent bet 4x and there were 3 callers he later jammed I called he had AA i lost-bad hand I should have tried to read hands and guess that even if he had AK it was coin flip.
Tommy Angelo is a great writer, one of the best in the poker world very cool very funny, check him out.
running 19/12 af 2.5
I made a littl rakeback on UB first time ever recieving it and how sweet it is. Overplayed some JJs when opponent bet 4x and there were 3 callers he later jammed I called he had AA i lost-bad hand I should have tried to read hands and guess that even if he had AK it was coin flip.
Tommy Angelo is a great writer, one of the best in the poker world very cool very funny, check him out.
running 19/12 af 2.5
Monday, February 9, 2009
Madness
Last week I was mad, mad about this mad about that. Mad at mysefl , mad at work,mad at poker, mad at being mad, now I'm not mad, the mad is gone, bye bye mad - stay away, go ahead and stay at a holiday inn Mad. Mad needs a vacation so I'm sending mad on an all expense paid vacation to somewhere warm around the world.
As I write this my cat is my so called handwarmer keeping my lap warm and pretending to sleep, she is spoiled beyond belief. I wanted to call her some kind of Hero but there is nothing heroic she has ever done so she is just a modified version of a handwarmer for me .
I have a monster that lives near my couch called the Tiltmonster and he was in fullforce last week gobbling my chips in large chunks like Kobiashi eating hot dogs in a food eating contest.Tiltmonster has gone back to monster island and I know he will be back.
I don't want to take this game too seriously anymore, so I'm gonna have some fun with all that is good with my life. Sure I'm gonna rant and rave some too , hey its my blog I can do anything I want! right? All you fish, Monkeys, Donkeys, Sharks, Elephants, and Mouses get ready cause I'm coming after you on the virtual felt 1 street at a time and hopefully I'll keep you on your toes going forward.
good Night - I'm outta here later.
As I write this my cat is my so called handwarmer keeping my lap warm and pretending to sleep, she is spoiled beyond belief. I wanted to call her some kind of Hero but there is nothing heroic she has ever done so she is just a modified version of a handwarmer for me .
I have a monster that lives near my couch called the Tiltmonster and he was in fullforce last week gobbling my chips in large chunks like Kobiashi eating hot dogs in a food eating contest.Tiltmonster has gone back to monster island and I know he will be back.
I don't want to take this game too seriously anymore, so I'm gonna have some fun with all that is good with my life. Sure I'm gonna rant and rave some too , hey its my blog I can do anything I want! right? All you fish, Monkeys, Donkeys, Sharks, Elephants, and Mouses get ready cause I'm coming after you on the virtual felt 1 street at a time and hopefully I'll keep you on your toes going forward.
good Night - I'm outta here later.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Stats and some goals
Running 6.42 bb/100 over 4100 hands majority of which is 10nl 6max, multitabling (4 tables) towards the end. Some 25nl and a few 50nl to test the waters.
1/30 Bad hands played 7 ; 2/1 4 hands played bad Grade of F on both days, spewing money. Goal is 0 bad hands.
Goal - Small Stakes 100nl by June, 50nl by April, 25 nl by March. Don't try to force it, but play solid and stay away from bluffing, marginal calls.
Hand analysis
Opponent was running 16/10 1 AF. I had been really aggressive at the table when involved in hands up to this point. How should I have played this or was the aggression ok at these limits?Absolute/UB Cereus No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (5 handed) - Absolute/UB Cereus Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.comButton ($10.85)SB ($5.41)BB ($22.44)UTG ($12)
Hero (MP) ($10.29)Preflop: Hero is MP with 7, 7
UTG raises to $0.40,
Hero raises to $1.35, 3 folds,
UTG calls $0.95Flop: ($2.85) 5, 6, 2 (2 players)
UTG checks,
Hero bets $2.85,
UTG calls $2.85Turn: ($8.55) 10 (2 players)
UTG checks,
Hero raises to $6.09 (All-In), UTG calls $6.09Total pot: $20.73
UTG has 66 for a set and Hero had 77 spewy play
"In my opinion you've made several big mistakes in this hand.First mistake: Your opponent is tight open/raising only 10% of hands, we have to assume that his range from UTG is even tighter... what will he be opening with from UTG? I would assume maybe 99+, AK, AQs how do you fare against those hands? you're crushed against the majority of them or racing. Proper play pre flop is setmine since you're both deep and call his bet.Second mistake: You failed to understand your own table image, when you say you've been raising alot your image is LAGG opponents will give you credit for lesser hands and they will slowplay strong holdings. When you pot the flop (witch is kinda ok although a smaller bet would have had a better effect in my opinion) and your opponent calls you have to think you're beat I don't think he will call a pot sized bet here without a hand that beats you. At this stage you have to put him on an overpair or a set, since you have the smallest overpair any overpair will beat your hand.Third mistake:Your betting line ensures that you'll only get called by hands that beat you. I think a 3/4 or 2/3 pot bet on the flop would be enough even maybe a half pot bet, I understand that you want to protect your overpair in a rather favorable flop but in all fairness there's only 2 hands you're gonna fold there, AK and AQ and even those still have some equity against you. Once you're called C/F the turn, you're beat.Without knowing after your opponent called your 3bet pre flop i would put him on something like KK+ and maybe AK/AQ after the flop call I would rule out AK and AQ for a tight opponent leaving AA and KK and far more AA than KK.This is my opinion and by no means am I an expert or anything but I think this is a pretty standard line for these hands at these limits on a TAG"
1/30 Bad hands played 7 ; 2/1 4 hands played bad Grade of F on both days, spewing money. Goal is 0 bad hands.
Goal - Small Stakes 100nl by June, 50nl by April, 25 nl by March. Don't try to force it, but play solid and stay away from bluffing, marginal calls.
Hand analysis
Opponent was running 16/10 1 AF. I had been really aggressive at the table when involved in hands up to this point. How should I have played this or was the aggression ok at these limits?Absolute/UB Cereus No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (5 handed) - Absolute/UB Cereus Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.comButton ($10.85)SB ($5.41)BB ($22.44)UTG ($12)
Hero (MP) ($10.29)Preflop: Hero is MP with 7, 7
UTG raises to $0.40,
Hero raises to $1.35, 3 folds,
UTG calls $0.95Flop: ($2.85) 5, 6, 2 (2 players)
UTG checks,
Hero bets $2.85,
UTG calls $2.85Turn: ($8.55) 10 (2 players)
UTG checks,
Hero raises to $6.09 (All-In), UTG calls $6.09Total pot: $20.73
UTG has 66 for a set and Hero had 77 spewy play
"In my opinion you've made several big mistakes in this hand.First mistake: Your opponent is tight open/raising only 10% of hands, we have to assume that his range from UTG is even tighter... what will he be opening with from UTG? I would assume maybe 99+, AK, AQs how do you fare against those hands? you're crushed against the majority of them or racing. Proper play pre flop is setmine since you're both deep and call his bet.Second mistake: You failed to understand your own table image, when you say you've been raising alot your image is LAGG opponents will give you credit for lesser hands and they will slowplay strong holdings. When you pot the flop (witch is kinda ok although a smaller bet would have had a better effect in my opinion) and your opponent calls you have to think you're beat I don't think he will call a pot sized bet here without a hand that beats you. At this stage you have to put him on an overpair or a set, since you have the smallest overpair any overpair will beat your hand.Third mistake:Your betting line ensures that you'll only get called by hands that beat you. I think a 3/4 or 2/3 pot bet on the flop would be enough even maybe a half pot bet, I understand that you want to protect your overpair in a rather favorable flop but in all fairness there's only 2 hands you're gonna fold there, AK and AQ and even those still have some equity against you. Once you're called C/F the turn, you're beat.Without knowing after your opponent called your 3bet pre flop i would put him on something like KK+ and maybe AK/AQ after the flop call I would rule out AK and AQ for a tight opponent leaving AA and KK and far more AA than KK.This is my opinion and by no means am I an expert or anything but I think this is a pretty standard line for these hands at these limits on a TAG"
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