Here are some hands:
Aces Early
This hand is an example of where I felt pretty lost as to where my opponent was in the hand. When he calls my 3 bet, I can assign a range of something like 99+, AQ+, and some suited connectors, and that might be even a little loose. The flop is a pretty good one for my hand against his range, so my continuation bet is purely for value. When he calls, I can narrow his range down to more like TT+, AK, AQss. I check the Queen on the turn for pot control as I didn't really think a smaller pair could handle much more heat. Plus this allows me to keep the pot smaller if he does happen to have AK. Then he bets the turn, which is the really confusing part for me, and I'm not sure if my shove here is a good one, even though it did win. It's confusing because most medium pairs would check behind for pot control, and a flush draw would surely take a free one on a this board, unless it was AQss. So after evaluating his bet, I felt he either had a King, AQss, or was getting rash with a hand like JJ/air. Since AK is the only feasible King combination, I didn't think it was likely since I had two of the Aces and two of the Kings were on the board. This meant I was ahead of the rest of his range, and I didn't want to flat call and have a spade come, giving him a flush/chance to represent flush. I shoved and he thought for awhile (a sigh of relief for me) and ended up folding.
Gross Hand
This hand was frustrating in many ways. I'm still up in the air about 3 betting with medium/small pairs because just flat calling sort of gives away the strength of your hand, but 3 betting and getting called puts you in a very tough spot with a large pot now. Anyways, I 3 bet here and he called OOP. This is typically a medium pair like TT,JJ or AK,AQ. The flop was actually a good one for my hand because it put TT,JJ in a tough spot and AK,AQ completely miss. When he called my continuation bet, I really thought it was something like TT,JJ and so the Ace was the perfect double barrel card as I can represent an Ace face that got bailed out. Unfortunately, this guy floated OOP with AK (I don't reccommend this play at all because if you miss and want to make a move, you will have zero fold equity for a turn checkraise shove) and hit, so there went a nice $400.
Don't bluff calling stations
This hand is a lot like that last one in that I thought I could represent an Ace here, but then I got the dreaded min-raise (makes me so mad) so I had to fold my Jack high. I haven't gotten a lot better at not bluffing calling stations, but I still do it from time to time.
Perfect Turn
This guy was pretty bad and I was waiting to get him. He donk lead into a few of my raises like this before, but I never had any value and he was a major station so I didn't want to try and bluff him. This time I finally had something and then I got the perfect turn card for both of our hands and there was no way I was folding. This pot felt nice.
Huge Pot
Normally I would just ship it all in with AK here but this guy was a super donk and liked to do stuff like this http://www.pokerhand.org/?1355211. So I was a little weary and decided to just call since we were both pretty deep stacked and I didn't feel like flipping for 250bb pot. I figured he was pretty strong but I got the perfect flop and was going all the way with it. He bet and I just shoved because I knew he was bad and was going to call. The turn gave me the nuts and his JJ was no good.
August is going well so far with me being up about $1200 and I have probably only played 7 out of the 10 total days. I feel good about my game right now and I feel if I run ok I can put up some good numbers for August. Tonight is the Dave concert so I'm going to celebrate and get really drunk. I'm also trying to plan a one or two day trip to Penn State so I can pay the bills and clean and my closet and such...
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