Friday, August 31, 2007

Strong Finish

I just finished a quick session of 235 hands and ended up +$184. I didn't want to play too long today as I have some other things to do, but I am happy with how this session went. I only made one questionable call, but the rest of the hands I felt I played really well. I should've won about double if my Aces didn't get cracked and if I didn't split a pot when I had a guy drawing basically dead with only 3 chop outs. Here is the graph:

Hands:

AA less than K7
This is exactly what you want with this hand and you just have to hope your 3:1 holds up. It was such a nice turn card too in that it killed another out for him, but he still managed to get there. This didn't bother me at all so I am getting better.

Ehhh
This is a pretty questionable call down on my part. The only hand I was really worried about was 79 or a small set, so I think I have enough equity against other hands to call. I Pokerstoved this range: 99,77,33-22,A9s,K9s,Q9s,J9s,T9s,97s+,A9o,K9o and it said I had 60% equity, but that's only on the flop, and the range I applied was more of a turn/river range. If I could somehow adjust, it might be a lot closer to even or less for me. I just don't see him bluff min-raising the turn, and then potting the river without a hand that beats me. At best I was splitting so it's probably a fold but I have made worse calls.

Sets are nice
I didn't have any history with this guy, so when he called my 3 bet, I put him on 77-JJ and AQ+. The flop was beautiful and I bet a small inducer to tempt him to raise or at least not fold out some lower pairs/high cards. The turn was another great card because I could act like it was a scare card and it also hits his over card floats. He bet out nicely allowing me to stall call and I again checked the river because I really felt he would bet. He obliged by shoving and I insta-called and he folded seven high.

Shame
This was against the same guy, who I now see is an awful player. He only had three chop outs going to the river, but I might not have stacked him on a blank. I certainly would've gotten a decent value bet from him though.

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