I had my first winning cash game session online in like the past two or three weeks. I only made like 3/4 of a buy in, but it was still good to finish positive. I have tried playing 2/4 quite a bit lately as I am adequately rolled for the game but every time I tried it, I would get smacked for about 2 buy ins and would run really poorly. I only played 200 hands of 1/2 today and floated around even for the majority of the time with no big hands or big decisions. Then towards the end of my session this hand came up: http://www.pokerhand.org/?1283351. This hand is pretty standard but I want to go through my thought process and then maybe analyze it deeper to see if I played it optimally. Preflop is a very easy call with only a 3x raise and another caller because I am getting way too good of implied odds to fold, especially since both players are about full stacked. The flop was perfect for my hand in a raised pot, and I decided to check raise because I felt pretty confident that a continuation bet would occur a good majority of the time. The original raiser made a very weak bet of $4 into a $19 pot, meaning he was either very weak or very strong and was trying to induce a raise. The other caller flat called, which made me believe he was on some sort of draw like diamonds or 109, etc. I made my checkraise about 4.5x the original bet and the original raiser folded immediately and the other guy just flat called. Here I broke his hand distribution down into about 70% draw and 30% Ace. The turn brought another black Ace, which is actually a very good defining card. My check raise represents a weak/medium strength Ace, a set, or a big draw. When I fired 2/3 pot, I was pricing out any flush or straight draw from calling correctly, yet I was still keeping the bet small enough to extract value from an Ace. His call of my 2/3 pot bet changed my distribution of his hand range to somewhere around 20% draw and 80% Ace. The river blanked off and I value shoved for about the size of the pot. I was pretty confident that he held an Ace, and by making a value shove rather than a value bet like $75, I was taking a line that looked like a busted draw firing one last barrel to win the pot. He tanked for about 15 seconds and then called and I scooped while he showed A10dd (huge flop for him) and immediately left the table.
So far New Castle has been nice and relaxing. The weather has been almost perfect at around 75 degrees, but it did rain yesterday. I have just been hanging out with friends for the past couple of days and I am seeing Lauren tomorrow, so all is going very well. I am going to start working with my dad around the beginning of August, so hopefully I can get some golf in between now and then...
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I think turn bet should be a little less to price in a draw. Although most people would draw for the $42 on a brick turn, the paired board could make your opponent leary. But I suppose that wouldn't define his range well enough, so his range probably could be 50/50 if he were to call say a half pot size bet on the turn. Where upon, on the river w/ your bet size and the river card, the overbet is a beautiful bet, because as you said his range is predominantly an ace. However, had you bet half pot on turn and got called, I think a near pot sized bet would be appropriate on the river given my turn line because I think that is more +EV than making a small value bet, because an ace or a 9T are more than likely going to pay off there, and a flush draw won't bluff a half pot sized bet enough to make that bet as +EV as the pot sized bet. Let me know what you think?
By the way thanks for golfing w/ us this morning.
I definitely think you have some merit with a smaller turn bet. The Ace on the turn is pretty good draw killer so the only thing that would still keep a draw in a smaller bet. On the other hand though, any decent player would take a checkraise followed by weak/medium strength bet on that turn as a sign of a huge hand . I think a stronger turn lead can still be construed as a continued semi-bluff flush draw. But I also think the player would have to be pretty good to be thinking like this, so my line is probably more suited towards a higher limit and these levels are all about extracting value rather than deception. Very interesting convo though and we definitely need to do this more...
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