This won't be of much interest to most of you, but I figured one or two of you might get a laugh out of my poker ineptitude. Since the post is kind of lengthy, I used the new jump break feature, so if you want to read it you can click the "read more" below. If not, you can happily skim past it on the front page since it won't be covering most of it. (No such luck for those of you viewing this in an RSS read though.) Anyway, check it out if you're so inclined.
Here's two hands from Monday. One shows why I still don't think of my myself as a good player. I've still got a lot to learn, and make lots of bad (expensive) decisions. The second just made me feel a little better on a day where no matter what cards I had, I got beaten.
Here's two hands from Monday. One shows why I still don't think of my myself as a good player. I've still got a lot to learn, and make lots of bad (expensive) decisions. The second just made me feel a little better on a day where no matter what cards I had, I got beaten.
Pokerstars No Limit Hold'em - 6 players
SB: 155.5
BB: 155.5
UTG: 60
MP: 38.5
CO:117.5
Hero (BTN): 260.5
Pre Flop: (1.5) Hero is BTN with T
Q
2 folds, CO calls1, Hero raises to 5, 2 folds, CO raises to 10, Hero calls 5
Flop: (21.5) 3
J A (2 players)CO checks, Hero checks
Turn: (21.5) K
(2 players)CO bets 10, Hero raises to 40, CO calls 30
River:(101.5) 3
(2 players)CO bets 25, Hero raises to 67.5, CO calls 42.5 all in
Final Pot:236.5
CO shows A
A
Hero shows T
QCO wins 226.5
(Rake: 10)
Let's break this hand down...
Preflop: Standard raise for the button. Calling the limp reraise from the guy in front of me is a mistake. Limp re-raises are almost always AA. I guess I decided that the min-raise didn't scare me. So I'd take my chances and dump my hand if I missed the flop and was facing any bet that didn't give me the right pot odds. (In fact, normally QTo is a hand I would dump to a raise, I would normally call here with QTs.)
Flop: Since he checked after 3betting, I'm assuming he missed. (By the way, if you 3bet preflop, you should always bet the flop when it's headsup. Not betting there is just terrible play.) Since he checked here, I put him on a KK or another pocket pair that missed. After all, only a complete drooler wouldn't cbet with a flopped Aces set, right? (In retrospect, I assume he was checking the flop hoping to go for a check raise.)
Turn: I'm glad to make my straight, but I'm not too happy about the board flushing or him donk betting half pot into me. I decide to fire out a 4/5 pot raise and if he reraises I'll pitch my hand. Nope, he just calls. So I'm probably ahead. (I am, on the turn, but the river...)
River: Ugh. Paired board. He makes a 1/4 pot (value) bet. Could be that small pocket pair that I put him on has improved to two pair. Of course he could also have a flush, quads if his pocket pair is 33, or we could be chopping with the straight. I could just call and go for the cheap showdown. Then again, if he is calling with worse, then I should get paid off as much as I can. I'm a spew monkey, let's put him all-in.
Overall: I should've folded to the limp reraise preflop. Since I was dumb enough to continue, I should've just called on the river for the cheap showdown. Instead, I decided to go aggro and dropped a little over a buy-in. I shrieked at the top of my lungs, then slammed my head into my desk until I passed out.
This next hand is just one where finally something went my way. The player to my right posted UTG and then shoved preflop with garbage his very first hand at the table. I was lucky to get two other callers and that none of them hit anything...
Preflop: Standard raise for the button. Calling the limp reraise from the guy in front of me is a mistake. Limp re-raises are almost always AA. I guess I decided that the min-raise didn't scare me. So I'd take my chances and dump my hand if I missed the flop and was facing any bet that didn't give me the right pot odds. (In fact, normally QTo is a hand I would dump to a raise, I would normally call here with QTs.)
Flop: Since he checked after 3betting, I'm assuming he missed. (By the way, if you 3bet preflop, you should always bet the flop when it's headsup. Not betting there is just terrible play.) Since he checked here, I put him on a KK or another pocket pair that missed. After all, only a complete drooler wouldn't cbet with a flopped Aces set, right? (In retrospect, I assume he was checking the flop hoping to go for a check raise.)
Turn: I'm glad to make my straight, but I'm not too happy about the board flushing or him donk betting half pot into me. I decide to fire out a 4/5 pot raise and if he reraises I'll pitch my hand. Nope, he just calls. So I'm probably ahead. (I am, on the turn, but the river...)
River: Ugh. Paired board. He makes a 1/4 pot (value) bet. Could be that small pocket pair that I put him on has improved to two pair. Of course he could also have a flush, quads if his pocket pair is 33, or we could be chopping with the straight. I could just call and go for the cheap showdown. Then again, if he is calling with worse, then I should get paid off as much as I can. I'm a spew monkey, let's put him all-in.
Overall: I should've folded to the limp reraise preflop. Since I was dumb enough to continue, I should've just called on the river for the cheap showdown. Instead, I decided to go aggro and dropped a little over a buy-in. I shrieked at the top of my lungs, then slammed my head into my desk until I passed out.
This next hand is just one where finally something went my way. The player to my right posted UTG and then shoved preflop with garbage his very first hand at the table. I was lucky to get two other callers and that none of them hit anything...
Poker Stars No Limit Hold'em - 6 players -
CO: 99.5
BTN: 45.5
SB: 108.5
Hero (BB): 250
UTG: 75
MP: 243.5
UTG posts a big blind (1)
Pre Flop: (2.5) Hero is BB with A
AUTG raises to 75, 2 folds, BTN calls 45.5 all in, SB raises to 108.5, Hero calls 107.5
Flop: (337.5) 5
A Q (4 players - 1 is all in)Turn: (337.5) T
(4 players - 1 is all in)River: (337.5) J
(4 players - 1 is all in)Final Pot: 337.5
BTN shows 2
JSB shows 8
8Hero shows A
AUTG shows T
4Hero wins 174.5
(Rake: 15)
Not sure why the hand converter says that only one player was all-in. The other 3 players were all all-in, and I stacked all of them. The table broke up after that, and I decided to log out before I could lose it all back playing like I did in the first hand.
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