Tuesday, January 8, 2008
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Ways in which 2008 is going right
- i am cruisin' on the Rock Hard Challenge. FUCK am I sore.
- i am eating right. Correct proportions of lean meat, complex carbs, good fats, and h20
- i am following through on my poker goals
Check me out, sonnnnn. I'm not being results-oriented. So, after cardio and abs today, I hung out with roommates, fired up two tables of UB, got 270 hands in, did my review, commented on my hands....and now I'm gonna post them nearly verbatim here, and crash by midnight. I have 7 minutes. Shit.
So.
Overpair CheckRaised on Flop
standard raise.
I want to Cbet this pot right away, to build a pot with an overpair, but he checkraises. Alarm bells.
Ranges that he check-calls preflop with, and subsq checkraises the flop
{JJ-99, 66, 22, AK, 78, A9} I'm 63/37 but that's being very generous.
Then the T comes: I'm 48/52
Regardless, as soon as he checkraises, my head went "SET!!!". I didn't THINK: ok, "AA-99, 66, 22, 78, maybe A9 or AK"
I just said, I have an overpair, and called with NO PLAN FOR THE TURN. A plan for the turn would have involved a thought process on his cards, and ...on the turn....JJ is the only hand that I beat. 78 made the straight, TT made trips. I committed myself to going broke with the hand, and did just that (as played, I can't fold after betting the turn).
Always have a plan for the next street. Had I done that: I would still need to recognize that the T is a really bad card for me.
I think the right line here is to check/fold the turn. I'm now only ahead of JJ and A9.
Scary River Card
I guess I could have shoved the turn, but I miss out on a fuck-ton of value. Definitely hate his play, but I think a check-call is optimal on the river.
Overpair on Suited Board
TPTK + Nut Flush Draw vs Overpair = 36.5 / 63.5 Maybe I would lay this down if we were a helluva lot deeper, but not for these stacks.
That's it. It was just 270-odd hands. I ran at 7.7 BB/100 for an 0.5 BI profit. No biggie. Missed my bedtime though, it's 12:15am. Possibly tomorrow I'll get into some of my other goals but I kinda doubt it.
postscript
i ran 27.5 / 18.5 / 3.75 for this session. WHEN (not IF) I get to 100NL, i think this might be acceptable. At 10NL / 25NL, IT IS NOT. I want to be 18-22 / 15-18 / 5. yessssss.
- i am cruisin' on the Rock Hard Challenge. FUCK am I sore.
- i am eating right. Correct proportions of lean meat, complex carbs, good fats, and h20
- i am following through on my poker goals
Check me out, sonnnnn. I'm not being results-oriented. So, after cardio and abs today, I hung out with roommates, fired up two tables of UB, got 270 hands in, did my review, commented on my hands....and now I'm gonna post them nearly verbatim here, and crash by midnight. I have 7 minutes. Shit.
So.
Overpair CheckRaised on Flop
standard raise.
I want to Cbet this pot right away, to build a pot with an overpair, but he checkraises. Alarm bells.
Ranges that he check-calls preflop with, and subsq checkraises the flop
{JJ-99, 66, 22, AK, 78, A9} I'm 63/37 but that's being very generous.
Then the T comes: I'm 48/52
Regardless, as soon as he checkraises, my head went "SET!!!". I didn't THINK: ok, "AA-99, 66, 22, 78, maybe A9 or AK"
I just said, I have an overpair, and called with NO PLAN FOR THE TURN. A plan for the turn would have involved a thought process on his cards, and ...on the turn....JJ is the only hand that I beat. 78 made the straight, TT made trips. I committed myself to going broke with the hand, and did just that (as played, I can't fold after betting the turn).
Always have a plan for the next street. Had I done that: I would still need to recognize that the T is a really bad card for me.
I think the right line here is to check/fold the turn. I'm now only ahead of JJ and A9.
Scary River Card
I guess I could have shoved the turn, but I miss out on a fuck-ton of value. Definitely hate his play, but I think a check-call is optimal on the river.
Overpair on Suited Board
TPTK + Nut Flush Draw vs Overpair = 36.5 / 63.5 Maybe I would lay this down if we were a helluva lot deeper, but not for these stacks.
That's it. It was just 270-odd hands. I ran at 7.7 BB/100 for an 0.5 BI profit. No biggie. Missed my bedtime though, it's 12:15am. Possibly tomorrow I'll get into some of my other goals but I kinda doubt it.
postscript
i ran 27.5 / 18.5 / 3.75 for this session. WHEN (not IF) I get to 100NL, i think this might be acceptable. At 10NL / 25NL, IT IS NOT. I want to be 18-22 / 15-18 / 5. yessssss.
# posted by OneGreenChip : 11:50 PM
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good, but you're missing some crucial information: you're missing stats on opponents for every hand. just go back to them later in your DB and pull their stats. it'll never be perfect (sometimes you'll have 10 hands on someone, play a hand with them, then they could have significantly different stats) but usually having info is better than not having it.
hand 1: this is a good board for him to check-raise you on as it missed your likely range....BUT it hits your opponents likely range hard. IF you decide you have the best hand here and you're commiting yourself, leading the turn doesn't get you all in the best way. either re-raise the flop if you think the guy has draws a lot of the time (vs. A9) or if he doesn't play his draws fast and would have A9 or JJ a lot, check/raise him all in on the turn. really, i'd prob likely be calling that raise (depending on stats) and then evaluating his action on the turn.
hand 2: glad you've started to lead these, vn. shoving turn = bad. i think you played this well. river is the worssssst. check/call OR check/fold depending on the bet size is the line you want on the river. i'm not calling anymore than you did there, though -- obv the problem is that you're getting better than 3:1. i'd likely call. make a note that villain limps SCs in early position, plays draws passively.
hand 3: i'm def stacking off vs. bama. the other guy in a multi-way pot...not so sure. i don't like the SHOVE. you'll get value at this level comes from players not understanding pot committment. like you put in $8 of your $10 stack and then they put you all in and expect you to fold (obviously you're pot committed). but when you overshove, you don't give them the opportunity to try to bluff you. here, in this spot, i'd have raised small. note though, this STILL would have committed us if the other villain comes over the top. it's such a draw heavy board that getting it in here is best, i think. nice dodges :-)
my buddy jeremy is doing a fitness challenge called Rock the Scales. ever heard of it?
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hand 1: this is a good board for him to check-raise you on as it missed your likely range....BUT it hits your opponents likely range hard. IF you decide you have the best hand here and you're commiting yourself, leading the turn doesn't get you all in the best way. either re-raise the flop if you think the guy has draws a lot of the time (vs. A9) or if he doesn't play his draws fast and would have A9 or JJ a lot, check/raise him all in on the turn. really, i'd prob likely be calling that raise (depending on stats) and then evaluating his action on the turn.
hand 2: glad you've started to lead these, vn. shoving turn = bad. i think you played this well. river is the worssssst. check/call OR check/fold depending on the bet size is the line you want on the river. i'm not calling anymore than you did there, though -- obv the problem is that you're getting better than 3:1. i'd likely call. make a note that villain limps SCs in early position, plays draws passively.
hand 3: i'm def stacking off vs. bama. the other guy in a multi-way pot...not so sure. i don't like the SHOVE. you'll get value at this level comes from players not understanding pot committment. like you put in $8 of your $10 stack and then they put you all in and expect you to fold (obviously you're pot committed). but when you overshove, you don't give them the opportunity to try to bluff you. here, in this spot, i'd have raised small. note though, this STILL would have committed us if the other villain comes over the top. it's such a draw heavy board that getting it in here is best, i think. nice dodges :-)
my buddy jeremy is doing a fitness challenge called Rock the Scales. ever heard of it?
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