AKs - i'm all in!

Not that interesting of a hand, but was my biggest pot of the day and i got to suck out on two other players so here it is

BTW, wtf is up w the minraise - what do people expect to do w that move?

Poker Stars - No Limit Hold'em Cash Game - $1/$2 Blinds - 6 Players - (LegoPoker Hand History Converter)

SB: $264.90
hero (BB): $219.20
UTG: $222.00
MP: $277.10
CO: $37.70
BTN: $240.70

Preflop: hero is dealt A K (6 Players)
UTG raises to $8.00, MP calls $8.00, CO calls $8.00, 2 folds, hero raises to $38.00, UTG folds, MP raises to $68.00, CO calls all-in for $29.70, hero raises all-in to $219.20, MP calls $151.20

Flop: ($485.10) J Q 4 (3 Players - 2 All-In)

Turn: ($485.10) 6 (3 Players - 2 All-In)

River: ($485.10) K (3 Players - 2 All-In)

Pot Size: $485.10 ($3 Rake)

CO had A Q and LOST (-$37.70)
MP had A J and LOST (-$219.20)
hero had A K (a pair of Kings) and WON (+$262.90)

Haven't posted for a while

I was on vacation for a week, and on did a little playing since I got back.

I'm playing absolutely horrible this month. I can't even blame it on running bad at all - basically i'm just playing like absolute shit.

It's strange, bc i feel myself not caring at all when i lose. Basically i'm just giving stacks away - and most of them to donkeys. I may be burning out, and may just be getting bored. When i'm up against a good player, i have been playing pretty well... but once i'm against a donk i'm basically an ATM. I gave away over 1k in the past 2-3 days just bc i'm playing bad.

On a positive note, heres a hand i think i played well today. Villain was 25/15. I checked the flop hoping he would check through and we could keep the pot small, which luckily happened. The 2 on the turn was a blank and there was a good chance he was just stabbing, so i check-called. The river 2 was another blank, and although i thought about folding, I had just played the hand so weak that i thought i was ahead of his range most of the time.

Poker Stars - No Limit Hold'em Cash Game - $1/$2 Blinds - 5 Players - (LegoPoker Hand History Converter)

SB: $51.95
BB: $164.75
UTG: $202.80
hero (CO): $216.15
BTN: $244.80
Preflop: hero is dealt (5 Players)
UTG calls $2.00, hero raises to $9.00, BTN calls $9.00, 3 folds

Flop: ($23) (2 Players)
hero checks, BTN checks

Turn: ($23) (2 Players)
hero checks, BTN bets $12.00, hero calls $12.00

River: ($47) (2 Players)
hero checks, BTN bets $26.00, hero calls $26.00

Pot Size: $99.00 ($2 Rake)

BTN had (a pair of Deuces) and LOST (-$47.00)
hero had (two pair, Tens and Deuces) and WON (+$50.00)

overagro villains

This hand was weird. was my first hand at table. villain's minraise = weak steal attempt, or superstrong hand trying to get me to reraise. considering he has no history with me, i assumed the former

i checked the flop behind thinking was either way ahead (worse aces, pairs < A, etc) or way behind (6, better ace). 6 is pretty unlikely i think though... 76, AKQJ/6

on the turn folding did cross my mind, but i decided that chances of him holding AT+ w that action was low, and he would probably do same thing with a worse ace. luckily for me, he was drawing dead on the turn

SB: $43.55
Hero (BB): $100.00
UTG: $19.20
BTN: $49.25

Preflop: Hero is dealt 9 A (4 Players)
2 folds, SB raises to $2.00, Hero raises to $7.00, SB calls $5.00

Flop: ($14) 6 6 A (2 Players)
SB checks, Hero checks

Turn: ($14) 2 (2 Players)
SB checks, Hero bets $8.00, SB raises to $24.00, Hero calls $16.00

River: ($62) 2 (2 Players)
SB bets all-in for $12.55, Hero calls $12.55

Pot Size: $87.10 ($2 Rake)

SB had K J (two pair, Sixes and Deuces) and LOST (-$43.55)
Hero had 9 A (two pair, Aces and Sixes) and WON (+$41.55)

Plan the trade, trade the plan

well at least, that's what you're supposed to do.

i took a non-standard line here. board wasn't all too scary so didn't mind checking the turn behind. on river i was planning on either valuebetting if he checked, or raising if he led the river.

Also, i planned on folding if he 3bai on the river - reason being that a) it is a VERY unlikely bluff (people rarely rarely 3bai bluff rivers - if they have anything but nuts type hands they gonna be afraid of my raise and either call or fold) and there aren't many hands i beat that play this way. KK/QQ etc plays this way like.. 1% of the time...

another thing... a UTG limp-call = pair pretty often... i think that skews the range towards a set when he pushes...

so w all that in mind... i fold to the 3bai... oh wait oops!... thats what i planned and not what i did... when it came down to it, i convinced myself that 3:1 pot odds were good enough to call... honestly though, i'm ahead far less than 25% of the time, so in this case pot odds were just my excuse to make a bad play.... learn from my mistakes!

SB: $119.65
BB: $114.70
UTG: $99.90
MP: $14.00
Hero (CO): $109.15
BTN: $132.25

Preflop: Hero is dealt A A (6 Players)
UTG calls $1.00, MP folds, Hero raises to $5.00, 3 folds, UTG calls $4.00

Flop: ($11.50) 6 8 T (2 Players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $7.00, UTG calls $7.00

Turn: ($25.50) 6 (2 Players)
UTG checks, Hero checks

River: ($25.50) 2 (2 Players)
UTG bets $14.00, Hero raises to $34.00, UTG raises all-in to $87.90, Hero calls $53.90

Pot Size: $201.30 ($3 Rake)

UTG had T T (a full house, Tens full of Sixes) and WON (+$98.40)
Hero had A A and LOST (-$99.90)

nice day yesterday

had a pretty nice day yesterday - made about 2 buyins.

the latter part of the session was very frustrating though - basically i couldn't win any pots for the last 90 minutes and ground down more than $150 never losing more than $11 in any single pot.

those are typically the situations when i find myself starting to tilt and trying to force the issue a little bit more, but i'm aware of that and trying to keep from doing that

will look for some hands to post when i get home!

i break even!

800 hands tonight and -$16!... better than losing more i guess...


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villain here was a 26/10 type if i remember correctly...

i chose to simply call his flop raise bc the flop was relatively dry, and i planned on CRAI the turn

i think if the turn got worse i would have just bet/fold, but it seemed innocuous so i elected to check. his turn bet seemed strange to me bc he bet half his remaining stack, though in relation to the pot it was a normal bet - basically his bet committed him.

now that i think about it... it's hard for my raise to get called my worse... or is it?... are AK/KQ type hands in there?... actually crap now that i look at the hand again... EP limp calls... that's almost always a pair... and it's AK/KQ like... never... i think i just answered my own questions and i hope i'm not being results oriented here...

Poker Stars - No Limit Hold'em Cash Game - $0.50/$1 Blinds - 6 Players - (LegoPoker Hand History Converter)

evny (SB): $99.50
BB: $165.95
UTG: $93.00
MP: $72.60
CO: $98.50
BTN: $131.45
Preflop: evny is dealt (6 Players)
UTG calls $1.00, 3 folds, evny raises to $5.00, BB folds, UTG calls $4.00

Flop: ($11) (2 Players)
evny bets $7.00, UTG raises to $20.00, evny calls $13.00

Turn: ($51) (2 Players)
evny checks, UTG bets $38.00, evny raises all-in to $74.50, UTG calls all-in for $30.00

Uncalled bet of $6.50 returned to evny

River: ($187) (2 Players - 2 All-In)

Pot Size: $187.00 ($3 Rake)

UTG had (three of a kind, Sevens) and WON (+$91.00)

evny had (a pair of Aces) and LOST (-$93.00)


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had no reads on this guy before this hand... but i was happy to get the money in on that turn vs a shortie... needless to say... when i saw his cards i thought "what the *#ck" and made a nice little note for him. seriously, who calls a raise from sb w 97o?

SB: $52.20
BB: $26.35
evny (UTG): $100.00
MP: $49.75
CO: $114.00
BTN: $43.00

Preflop: evny is dealt (6 Players)
evny raises to $4.00, 3 folds, SB calls $3.50, BB folds

Flop: ($9) (2 Players)
SB checks, evny bets $7.00, SB calls $7.00

Turn: ($23) (2 Players)
SB checks, evny bets $14.00, SB raises all-in to $41.20, evny calls $27.20

River: ($105.40) (2 Players - 1 All-In)

Pot Size: $105.40 ($3 Rake)

SB had (two pair, Nines and Sevens) and WON (+$50.20)
evny had and LOST (-$52.20)


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this hand i'm not too sure if i played right either. the villain had been 3betting me a good amount from the blinds, so i decided to try a 4bet bluff. i rarely rarely try stuff like this, but it makes me angry when people 3b me a lot from the blinds so decided to step out of the comfort zone. not sure if this was horrible or not...

i checked the flop behind bc i didn't see much chance of taking the pot down on that low flop.

on the turn i contemplated pushing the rest in (my thinking was that AK/AQ type hands usually would have just pushed pf, bc playing a 4b pot OOP (out of position) is ridiculously hard) but alas, i decided i was just a big weenie and checked...

SB: $99.00
BB: $197.45
UTG: $89.70
MP: $100.40
CO: $35.65
evny (BTN): $105.15

Preflop: evny is dealt (6 Players)
2 folds, CO calls $1.00, evny raises to $5.00, SB raises to $15.00, 2 folds, evny raises to $34.00, SB calls $19.00

Flop: ($70) (2 Players)
SB checks, evny checks

Turn: ($70) (2 Players)
SB checks, evny checks

River: ($70) (2 Players)

SB checks, evny checks

Pot Size: $70.00 ($3 Rake)

SB had (two pair, Kings and Sevens) and WON (+$33.00)
evny had and LOST (-$34.00)