Thursday, April 3, 2008
Heater Runs Into Buzzsaw
50NL331 hands
$83.13 / 25.11 BB/100
25NL
2049 hands
$276.73 / 27.01 BB/100
So I came back from my incredible vacation and continued to tear 25NL a new asshole. Righteously running hawwwt. I reached the 20 BI mark for the next level, and decided to take a 4-BI shot at 50NL, as my game is so sick tight.
fail. That enormous W is my time at 50NL, which was marked by LAGs either taking adv of me or running hot, and missing every flop. Such is life. I admit that the constant pressure threw me into a bit of tilt, too. :(
Licked my wounds, went back to 25NL, and continue to crush. Sadly, I think it's more because of my table selection than anything. I can count at least three times when I noted that one of my tables had 5 TAGs, and one fish. The other 4 TAG regulars were all there because everybody had full stacks. Fuck that.
I skedaddled off to other tables, where 75bb - 50bb stacks were being horribly wielded by terrible players. Made at least 20 new fishy friends, who were willing to call off their stacks with TPGK and worse on the flop. Weeee.
Some hands? I'll try to keep these in chronological order, and make sure interesting hands only are posted. There are ~2400, so bear with me...
Here's a pretty standard scenario. I've always had the tournament mentality of 'raise to protect my hand'. Forget the fact that I have TPWK + NFD. I know that I should have just called and prayed to hit the flush.
When I have just TPWK here, it looks like a major leak. Should I be calling and re-evaluating his action on the turn/river? His raising range includes both flush draws and better aces, so I'm guessing the answer is yes. The problem is when he bets out his flush draw after the c/r, and I have to fold the best hand. Value is definitely being lost here, and I've had this type of situation backfire on me before, so obviously my thought process needs revision.
This is just a crappy spot to double-barrell. I don't know what I was thinking.
I took the worst line possible in this hand. Either I lead out or I c/r. This is just too drawy a board. Don't really know what he was thinking on the turn.....
Is KK OOP on an A-high flop a bet/fold situation? Should I even be leading out against two villains? I guess it's read-dependent. Thank God he showed.
I don't mind my PF / flop play, but on the turn, I had a read that he was on a flush draw. Villain is a complete donk, and never has a 7 here ever. I should have just taken the free card, and pushed on the river, where he would have folded. Didn't stop to think...
tilting and spewing
I stack off here all day -- I destroy his range.
totally lost here. Villain is 55 / 20 / 1.5, and has been splashing around constantly.
That's all I can take right now. Edits and updates tomorrow. You can see my last few entries are not very productive. I'm not talking about ranges or anything, just posting results. More thought is necessary.
# posted by OneGreenChip : 10:17 PM
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how to go on hooj heaterz:
-fresh new deck of cards
-full bottle of miller lite
-matches
build a card tower out of the broadways, and top off with the 4 aces. burn.
dance around burning cards, screaming: BOOMSWITCH BOOMSWITCH BOOMSWITCH
chug half beer, raise half left to salute poker gods, dump on fire.
i've been doing this every night.
OR
up up down down left right left right b a start to activate god mode
-fresh new deck of cards
-full bottle of miller lite
-matches
build a card tower out of the broadways, and top off with the 4 aces. burn.
dance around burning cards, screaming: BOOMSWITCH BOOMSWITCH BOOMSWITCH
chug half beer, raise half left to salute poker gods, dump on fire.
i've been doing this every night.
OR
up up down down left right left right b a start to activate god mode
1: PLEASE. STOP. LIMPING. Even worse, once he isoraises you, my CiB it??? He's calling you all day there and you're OOP. Fail. If you're gonna lead that spot I'd bet a bit more to get him to raise you more, $3 works -- then he has to make it like $8. I think that shoving him works in this spot, he might fold some strong aces here. Otherwise, check raising works too.
2: Looks standard. You're super committed on the turn against his stack / range. Get it in IMO.
3: Bad flop to check/call. I'd be C/R flop to build a pot -- a lot of his range consists of draws. If you take this line, you MUST C/R more on the turn. Also, check/calling doesn't make sense on the river. You have a pretty weak hand. Any A, J, KQ, set, flush, etc beats you. If he has you beat, more power to him, check/fold.
4: This is perfect, NH.
5: Standard isolation and CBet, but this is a bad turn to double barrel. The texture of the board really didn't change versus your range. Your river bet is spew...whatever you're betting doesn't push him off anything except a missed straight draw. Either check behind or shove (obvious check behind -- bluffing rivers is a great way to lose money at anything less than $400nl IMO).
6: Standard for stacks. If he's 100BB, I'd check behind on the turn as it's a bad card to double barrel. If an A or K turns, I'd try to rep it and fire again.
7: Puke. Standard raise PF. I have no clue why you're c/c OOP here when you have A high. The only thing you're doing is setting yourself up to do is bluff when 1. your range doesn't hit this board and 2. your opponents range does hit this board. Min C/R OOP on turn = fail. If villain has almost any piece he's still going to call. You should be check/folding flops like this OOP.
8: Not loving PF, but it's marginal. An important thing to note about this hand; yes, you have a monster. But any hand here that's stacking off vs. your almost certainly has equity over you (AQ, KK, AA, QQ). So in those spots you have only some flush outs. I don't really like leading here as if villain has me pwned he raises and then we fold out some dead money (CO); I'd have check/raised here or check/called. I think I like check/raising because we might get value from villain's JJ/AK, etc. If you are in position you have more options in this spot. The bad part about being OOP is that if you elect to check/call and try to spike a flush it's simply harder to get paid off.
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2: Looks standard. You're super committed on the turn against his stack / range. Get it in IMO.
3: Bad flop to check/call. I'd be C/R flop to build a pot -- a lot of his range consists of draws. If you take this line, you MUST C/R more on the turn. Also, check/calling doesn't make sense on the river. You have a pretty weak hand. Any A, J, KQ, set, flush, etc beats you. If he has you beat, more power to him, check/fold.
4: This is perfect, NH.
5: Standard isolation and CBet, but this is a bad turn to double barrel. The texture of the board really didn't change versus your range. Your river bet is spew...whatever you're betting doesn't push him off anything except a missed straight draw. Either check behind or shove (obvious check behind -- bluffing rivers is a great way to lose money at anything less than $400nl IMO).
6: Standard for stacks. If he's 100BB, I'd check behind on the turn as it's a bad card to double barrel. If an A or K turns, I'd try to rep it and fire again.
7: Puke. Standard raise PF. I have no clue why you're c/c OOP here when you have A high. The only thing you're doing is setting yourself up to do is bluff when 1. your range doesn't hit this board and 2. your opponents range does hit this board. Min C/R OOP on turn = fail. If villain has almost any piece he's still going to call. You should be check/folding flops like this OOP.
8: Not loving PF, but it's marginal. An important thing to note about this hand; yes, you have a monster. But any hand here that's stacking off vs. your almost certainly has equity over you (AQ, KK, AA, QQ). So in those spots you have only some flush outs. I don't really like leading here as if villain has me pwned he raises and then we fold out some dead money (CO); I'd have check/raised here or check/called. I think I like check/raising because we might get value from villain's JJ/AK, etc. If you are in position you have more options in this spot. The bad part about being OOP is that if you elect to check/call and try to spike a flush it's simply harder to get paid off.
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