Saturday, October 6, 2007

Session No. 11 & 12 Lucky Derby and Capitol Casino

4/8 1/2 Kill: TP = +40 TSP = 4 Hrs (Last Weekend 9/30)
4/8 Kill: TP = +$100 TSP = 3.5 Hrs (Friday Night 10/6)

Had a pretty swingy session both days. Will get more into the Capitol Session later, I felt that I played pretty solid and ran decently well, just got ran down in two big pots.

Hand I felt that I played ok but could have got a lot more value out of:

Hero is UTG+1 w/ Black Aces
Uber Donk UTG w/ K4os
Solid Female LAGish (Tammy) to my left w/ AKos

Preflop:
UberDonk limps, Hero Raises, Tammy 3bets, Some other idiot in LP calls,Uberdonk calls, Hero caps, All Call

Flop: 2dAh5d BOOOOM!!!

Checked to me, I lead, Tammy Raises, LP folds, Uberdonk calls, I 3bet, Tammy caps.

Turn: 4h

Checked to me I fire, Tammy just calls, Uberdonk calls,

River: 4d BOOOOM!!!

Checked to me, I fire again, called in both spots.

I rake it in ($176 pot)

How would you guys have played it? I played it this way because it was very easy especially the uberdonk to have 2 diamonds here and I wanted to get in the most value if he didn't hit.

I guess that I could have just called Tammy's flop raise, and check raised the turn and hope that she 3 bets, but that might not have happened.

What do you think?

I will talk about some other nicely played hands later.

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From that last Capitol Session I played another hand exceptionally well, but I did end up gettin lucky. Turned trips vs. top pair when I raised pf w/ AJs and flop came king high.

I snapped QQ from the BB w/ As8s.

Flop comes Ace high I and CR'd the crap out of this woman who just calls down w/ 2nd pair. Thanks :-)

I made 2 mistakes that I can remember.

1.) Check raising w/ TPGK against a pf three bet in late position.
-Hand AsTs UTG and I raised it, gets called in 3 spots, then the button 3 bets. All call. Flop comes AK6, all check to raiser who bets, I then CR'd, 2 call, button 3 bets, I call hoping to pick up some sort of draw, and then check fold the turn. He ended up showing AK to top two.

Does anyone else play this hand like that? It was the second hand that he played at the table and I didn't have his range down yet.

I did learn, however, that he was the type of player that only would bet/raise w/ TP or better. So I guess that he played somewhat optimally minus being aggressive w/ draws.

2. Versus that same button player, action gets folded to him and he open raises, I am dealt AQos in the BB. I knew that he could have any hand like A9+ so I should have 3bet for value to define my hand.

Comment, complaints, concerns?

2 comments:

Nik Santi said...

There's no other way to play IMO...no need to get fancy. The style I aim for rams and jams almost all of my hands...that way my monsters and bluffs looks the same...do you see why?

Nik Santi said...

Also, a turn CR just looks completely obvious you have a monster, besides the fact that most opponents are checking behind with the straight out there. Good job not checking there like a little nit btw.