He Had What?

MS 1/2 unusually tight table. 4:00am Saturday.

I had 86 o on the button. co limps, I limp, blinds call.

As 8c 6s

they check to me and I bet 6$. the blinds fold and C.O. check-raises to 18$ (I had 300 and he had about 800). I three-bet to 45$ even (I don't like saying '3-bet' in no-limit but it ahs become standard), he immediately says all in. The only read I had is that he played terrible hands pf but weak tight after the flop.

I turn my cards face up, grumbles about never getting lucky and folded. I grumbled to a FW waitress that was walking by. I had started with 200, run it up to 1,000 and would go on to running it down to 75$.

After the CO left, my left hand neighbor said "He had pocket tens" 'What?' "Yeah, while you were talking to the waitress, he flashed me the pocket tens"

He had what?

Paid for Making Worse

The last hand might have been roughly even. This one wasn't. I had AcJc in the bb and about 165ish left.

utg opened for 25$. Button called, I called.

Pot 75$ Flop A 8 3 r. I have 140$

check, utg bets 45, button called, I called. I have 95$

Pot 165$. Turn 6. check, utg bet's 55$, button thinks and folds, I call.

Pot 255$, I have about 40$ remaining.

The River is a beautiful Js. I check and he puts me all in and I say "I hope that I rivered you" and call and show immediately, he groans. button said he also had AJ.

I think I was wrong on every street, even the flop over call sounds wrong since his C-bet had already been called. Min raise maybe and fold to more action?

Paid For Making Bad Decisions

Is part of poker. I made some poor ones last night at 2-5 nl HE Foxwoods.

1. I bought in for 200. I had 99 on the button. folded to the 30ishman two to my right who opens for 40$
I call, young Asian in sb calls. I just joined the table, no specific reads, they each had around 500$.

I was pondering a pf shove. Why raise so much? I had read somewhere that live players call too much pf so you should put in overbets with big pairs. I didn't like folding 9s to a late postion opener, nor calling, shoving might have been best in a tournament, I am still not sure what to do in a new ring game.

Flop 10 8 7 rainbow.Pot=125$. Sb leads 75$, pfr folds.

I had 158 remaining and the pot is 200$. And shoved, sb insta calls. Turn 6 and I showed my 99, he mucked, said the usual 'nice hand' and that was that.

I am sure that I was behind. I don't think anything, even A7s can bet that flop as a bluff into tow people. Not having an equity guess committed to memory, I just decided that an OESD was worth a try.


ext results appended to pokerstove.txt
273,240 games 0.005 secs 54,648,000 games/sec
Board: Tc 8d 7h
Dead:
equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 36.717% 33.85% 02.87% 92481 7845.00 { 99 }
Hand 1: 63.283% 60.41% 02.87% 165069 7845.00 { QQ-77, ATs, KTs, QTs, J8s+, T8s+, 98s, 87s }

Using that arbirtrary range I was getting 1.78: on a 1.79: shot. does that mean I profit if I can get 1% of fold equity?

Results Oriented Reads?

Foxwoods 10/20

I had the 74s in diamonds in the big blind and took a free flop 5 handed.

The flop came Ad Kh 2d. 5 sbs. I actually checked. utg bet, utg+1 raised. The button called two cold. I'm a little torn, I have a flush draw in a multiway pot but it isn't big and 3 people have shown interest. They are typical players who play too loose often but they are experienced.

Out of the corner of my eye I see utg 3-betting out of turn, he didn't realize I was in the hand. That tipped me into a fold. utg+1 and button called the third bet.

Turn: 7 bbs Jd. Utg and utg+1 checked, the button bet, utg called and utg+1 made a disgusted fold.

River: 9bbs 8d. Utg bets, button calls. Utg shows AcQd for a rivered one card flush. Button announces he had a str8 on the turn.

Well, I had the only flush draw but the other results say I made a great fold.

So Many Mistakes, So Little Memory

I'd say every hour of playing 1/2 has a hand where I think "Hmm, inuitively I feel that my betting is all wrong"

Unfortunately I am often at a loss to remember the hand. It goes so fast and I really don't want my opponents to see me pull out my notebook and write it down.

I used to do that all of the time at limit, but I was the rookie and they were all regulars so I didn't worry about it. I've mostly stopped doing that even at the 10/20 limit table.