Just finished a very weird night and a weird 48 hours. I ran so so bad at MTTs this weekend that I think I dropped nearly $2k into the MTT community on stars. However, i've won 2 $12/180 mans, 3 $12/45 mans, made multiple FT's in other $12/180s ect ect, and I also won a very tilt induced $225 STT. Which actually makes me winning a small amount of the weekend! Horay!
Sunday was a nightmare, lost loads of deep flips/semi deep flips for all the tea. Had KK vsAA in about 4 different comps, QQ losing to AK in the mill blah blah blah, but running like god himself in the 180 mans made me feel much better about myself.
There are 2 hands of note that I want to discuss here. I must apologize that my hyperlinks dont seem to be working tonight (or im just a spazz), so you'll have to copy/paste them to Pokerhand. Firstly;
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3620657
Obviously my line is ultra spewy, and looking back on it I just feel that he was the kind of player that rarely showed up with a flushdraw that I actually beat, so I was beating maybe 77/99 if he went abit crazy. I'd really like some thoughts on this. It seems to me that bet/folding is really leaky.
Secondly;
a href="http://www.pokerhand.org/?3620246
I'm pretty happy with the way i've played this hand on every street. There is an argument for checking behind on the flop, but I feel since I'm an EP caller to an UTG+1 raise, hes giving me credit for a real enough hand to probably C/f JJ/AK here.
Obviously the turn plays itself, since JJ was the main hand I put him on, I don't especially know why I didn't bet more. I suppose I was thinking that if he did have a non believing hand (Like he did), then I might get another caller.
I think the river is pretty standard too. It's abit of a horrid bluff on his part as I'm never folding anything really. When he made it I was really taking aback, but it should be fairly obviously that he basically never has a flush here, QQ/TT never c/c's two streets and I feel I can obviously dismiss KJ/J8. Having said that, it didn't seem there was too much I could get value from, so smoothing the river seemed best. Thoughts on this are welcome too =)
I'm probably going to play on tomorrow then take a break until Sunday night (the big 28th!!!!). I've been deliberately playing a lot just before Christmas, so I can have some nice family time in the next few days.
Outside of poker, everything has been rather peachy. I enjoyed a very nice birthday in which the family and I went to a super night Japanese restaurant and then me, Helen, Chris and Becky went for cocktails in a salsa bar which was sweet. I've managed to put off finishing my Christmas shopping again, so the 4/5 last things i need to buy will need to be taken care of tomorrow before I play.
Rightio kids, I fear im going to get to bed as soon as i've finished consoling Amy for being a big fat silly head =) xx
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Hand 1:
What do you suggest you do instead of bet folding? Bet calling? Bet/folding is super standard for that amount.
Hand 2:
I don't think people realistically just check fold JJ, AK or even AJ on this flop. If they do, then you've travelled back in time to the 70s or something. They even bet/fold or check/call. I think betting is quite thin on this flop unless you can put him on a wide EP raising range. Even then, the flop hits a whole load of his range and he probably won't be folding that often.
Bet a lot more on the turn, it's the main chance to get value if he has a heart, OESD, pair+gutty, slowplayed top pair etc, and they don't usually fold those to any amount. Plus, there's a whole load of lame cards that can come down and kill the action on the river. I'd bet around 2/3rds pot.
River, call is ok, but I like a "crying raise". I've seen people play an overpair or top/top this way, deciding that the river is a good spot for a blocking value bet, and then talk themselves into calling because the pot is so big/they played it so weirdly.
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