Friday, June 29, 2007
New Record for myself
I played the 2k NL crapshoot today and set a new personal record for the WSOP: I busted in the first hour! I only played for 45 minutes so there isn't much to talk about but I will describe my final hand and my reasoning. I picked up AJ in middle position and made a standard raise. The guy on the button, who was probably the only other decent player at the table, 3 bet me for the second time and for the third or fourth time he was on the button. He was aware of some intermediate concepts like raising on the button and using position but he didn't know how to blend his plays to prevent them from becoming too obvious. So back to the hand, I ended up 4 betting him knowing his range was wide on the button and he thought and then called. At this point, I started with 4k and just put 1300 of it into the pot. The flop came J10x and I bet out 1500 and he instantly shoved and I was forced to call. He turned over a set of tens and I was out. Once, this is another play that I think is really bad based on THESE stack sizes. It's the same reasoning as yesterday, in that he should know that when I 4 bet, I am representing a very small range that is way ahead of TT (AKs, AKo, JJ+) and I am basically committing myself with any continuation bet, which I will make about 90% of the time. So assuming he doesn't flop a set, he will be left with two very difficult scenarios: 1)The flop comes all under cards and he has to call off the rest of my chips, most likely as a big dog or 2) An over card flops and he has to fold to my continuation bet. He is only going to flop a set about 12% of the time, so 88% of the time he will face this type of dilemma. Now, once again, if the stacks are deeper, his play is fine as he is getting the right implied odds to try and hit his set and most likely stack me. Tomorrow is another $1500 NL event and I'm going to do by my best to get it in ahead for once...
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