As noted in the above post I'm taking today off. I was going to play today but while talking to my dad on the phone I realized it was Thursday and I was planning the next few days in my head as if it was Friday, so that combined with having played 11 days in a row made me think it was time for a day off.
I ended up playing a full session yesterday even though I thought I might cut it short. As it happened, I was feeling and playing well and the game had a couple deep spots in it as well. I ended up winning a pot in the must move game against my brother, which was really the only significant pot we have played against each other his whole trip. I 3-bet his late open from the blinds with AK and bet an Axx flop. He called and the turn was a 3. With about a 2/3 pot sized bet left I elected to shove and he folded what he would later say was AT. Didn't stack him, but got about a weeks worth of pro-rated rent, so we'll just call that his lodging expense.
After getting moved to the main game I won a nice pot with JJ after getting raised on a 642 flop. My opponent only min raised, which suggested a small overpair or something like A6. I knew I would get a better idea of his hand on the turn. I check called a 40% pot sized bet on a 9 turn. The river came an 8 and after I checked he instantly bet like 1/6 the pot, which was an amount slightly smaller than his turn bet. This only left him with basically a min raise left which was very suspicious. To me it seemed like he was going to bet this amount no matter what came and usually when people are planning to bet no matter what, they are either bluffing or have the nuts. Problem is its hard for the 8 not so scare him no matter what he has, so I made the call and was good.
I would win some other smallish pots from there and didn't get into any interesting spots until the end. I got into a crazy spot with a good aggressive player from the east coast that was visiting for a couple weeks. I had raised A
K
from early position and he was the only caller on the button. The flop came A
x
x
(I think it was A68 but not 100% sure). I bet about 75% pot and he called. The turn was the J
and I bet about 60% pot and he thought for a minute and called again. The river was the Q
, not really the best card for me. Not only do I lose to a flush, I also lose to AQ with the Q
now. I debated whether to bet, and if so how much. I ended up making a 1/2 pot bet to induce a call from Ax
combos, though this might be a c/call or c/fold in hindsight. He ended up raising it up to about 3.75 times my bet.
The reasons why this is such a crazy spot is because we are really deep, having both started the hand with >300 big blinds, and I have the K
, so I know he can't have the nut flush. At this point if I shove it would be about 200 big blinds for him to call. To put this bet into perspective, I usually buy in for ~100 bbs, so to raise 200 more on the river is huge. This play crossed my mind, and if anyone is ever capable of folding a flush in a live game, this player in this situation would be it. The problem is, having raised in early position and having the Jh on the board, the only hearts in my range are KQ, and if he has the Q
as one of his flush cards, he won't fold, reasoning that I can't have a flush that doesn't include that card. I normally wouldn't give a live player credit for thinking this much but having played a few sessions with him and talking to him for a bit, I know he does. I ended up folding and later he would tell me that he had T
9
for the 3rd nut flush.
I asked if he would ever fold to a shove on the river and he said given my stack size it would have been sick. At first he said he would fold but then said he would probably call, and then said because he was leaving tomorrow he might have folded to keep from losing a big pot on the last day. I'm not sure I really believe that logic since he seemed like a good enough player to not let stuff like that seep in, so I guess the only way to know is if I had done it. The J
on board taking a way a lot of the medium flushes (9J, TJ, QJ), and therefore making his range weighted more towards small flushes is an argument for going for it but I just couldn't give even this guy credit for being able to fold a flush on a non-paired board. I still don't know but a crazy spot nonetheless. Well this got way too long but it was such a crazy spot and I had more to say about it than I thought.
Shortly after that I hit a wall for some reason and was really tired so I racked up still with a decent profit and having played well overall by my estimation, which was a nice confidence boost after two mediocre sessions.
Anyway as I said taking today off and gonna catch the rest of the Bears/Packers game now.
Last edited by cushlash; 09-13-2012 at 09:40 PM.