Tuesday, October 9, 2007
U Turns and Vomiting on my Day Off
It didn't go so well at first.
25NL : 344 hands / (30.90)BB/100 / ($53.14)
Dipped down into the -300 BB region, and was starting to stage a comeback -- built myself up a 200 BB stack at 25NL, and then flopped an underset in a RRd pot to an even bigger stack. Bye bye, money.
Did the best possible thing, once I realized that I had A) gone on tilt B) gone off tilt C) got coolered. I went to the gym. And I threw up at the gym, twice, for the first time in six months. Brutal, brutal leg workout gave me no mercy. Pounding music gave me no chance to think. Hot gym bunnies gave me a chance to think about something other than must win back money must win back must get unstuck must must.
So nice.
Came back, thought three times about it, and re-fired up UB. Started chasing my fish. And catching them.
Both sessions were characterized by LAG / LP players pushing me around. Yes, I realize that they have an extremely high variance in their play, but I've been on the wrong end of it, lately.
Like I mentioned before, they are just not respecting continuation bets at all. They'll either float with air in position, check-call the turn, and crush the river, forcing me to surrender or make a hero call. Or they'll play their premium pairs the same way, and I end up overplaying TPTK. Or they'll float with air and hit the next two streets hard.
Frustrating. In the second session a LP would check/call me on every street, and bet the pot on the river. I watched him river enough sets/two pairs/gutshot straights to realize that this guy couldn't fold. Too bad he never tried it on me when I had a premium pair myself.
Got my comeuppance when I filled an OESD on the turn, and he rivered two pair and got his 160 BB stack in against mine. After being bullied out 2/3 of the pots we were in, that felt soooooo goooooood. I wonder what was going on in his head....I know he had no respect for my play, as I watched him call my checkraises on two streets and show up with 2nd pair. Patience is the key here? There's just been too many times that HEY!! FINALLY! Here's the hand I'm going to crush him with!! And that's the time they either meekly fold or fill some ridiculous straight.
....or maybe I'm just remembering that because it's so much more painful. Objectivity, Colin. Trust PokerTracker, not your memory.
I'm not going to bother posting hands, unless I think I made a great play or an awful one. Like this...my last hand of the day. Note the stack sizes.
25NL
BN: xxxxx w/ $21.39
SB: Hero (Ad Ac) w/ $91.73
BB: $11.44
xxxx w/ $y
Villain (21 / 6 / 5 : standard TAG) w/ $27.10
xxxx w/ $y
Preflop:
Folds to Villain, who raises to $.85. Folds to Hero, who calls. BB folds.
Flop (As 3s Qs):
Hero checks. Villain bets $1.95 (pot). Hero calls.
Turn (As 3s Qs Ks):
Hero checks. Villain bets $5.85. Hero folds.
Here was the table situation at the time. I was sitting on a huge stack, and my opponents were salivating for a piece of it. There was a lot of light 3betting preflop, as they were trying to build huge pots with draws and suck out on me. My stats were on the nitty side of TAG, and I'd shown a tendency to put people all-in on the turn/river in pots I was in. I'd pushed people out of three previous pots without showing down, and so I was ready to change gears and slowplay when pocket aces came along.
preflop: perfect, i'm concealed.
flop: SHIT. I have a set. I don't think he bets the pot with a made flush here. I'll let a card come off. If it's not a spade, I shove the turn.
turn: SHIT. Ok, let's see. I expected him to slow down on the turn with a nonflush. Doesn't it look like I called him with one spade? He's not worried about that? My set must not be good.
maybe i'll post some more hands later. they'd be ughhhh ones, though :D
2. Good observations on the current situation, but think about how you use them. If you're putting them to the test on the turn/river, they're going to be calling/raising/betting lighter in those spots. So build a pot to make those mistakes MATTER. Make them commit themselves. Therefore, even though you have nitty stats, you should still be 3-betting this preflop. I'd make it $3, which is 3.5x his bet (in position I'd make it 3x his bet). He'll not respect you and likely call, then you can play a big pot.
3. Plus you're out of position. He can take free cards in this spot. And if you show aggression, your hand is only going to be 1pair. Are you committed to a 8bb pot on the flop when you have 96bb's effectively behind? I hope not.
4. As played, on the flop, I check-raise. If he flopped flush here, I might be paying him off given the situation and his stats. I say "might" because it's unlikely he has an ace (one in the deck now), so there aren't too many hands can bet and get in here with that you don't have crushed (e.g. he won't be likely to stack off light on a board like this)
5. I don't like your turn analysis / plan. If he has a low flush, he might want to build a pot and protect against a higher flush draw. So if you put him on a spade, you call his flop bet then shove all in on a non-spade turn. Okay, he has a spade -- there's no way he can call that as he's not committed. But, if he has a flush and you misread him, he can call easily. If he has a set (not highly likely), he'll call and you win.
5. As played, that's good analysis on the turn and a solid laydown; very nice.
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