Put in a good session and booked a modest yet solid +650. The game sucked towards the end, with tough, tight, solid opponents, so I’m pleased I made a good quit.
The big hands I won weren’t that interesting…. I was a pretty big river rat on a few occasions.
Raise from EP, I call in CO with 55, multi-way flop T-4-4 and checked to me, so I bet to thin the field. One caller, turn 8 putting two diamonds out, I check back. River the beautiful 5d, and I got a large bet check/called.
Another hand, I call from the button an open with QJo, flop T-9-3 rainbow and checked to me. I bet 2/3 pot with the open ended and two overs, turn 5 and checked again to me. Well, I feel like I have a ton of equity against a hand like AT, with initiative, so I bet again and he calls. River is the glorious Kh, and I got another large bet check/called.
It’s here I’ll note that I had position in both those hands…. There may be something to that
There were, however, some interesting hands that I lost. I open JJ to $30 from MP with an UTG straddle, a solid player who makes it 85. We started about $1800 effective. I call, flop is T-6-2 two clubs. He bets $70, and I decide to raise here to $185. I don’t really know what the plan is here if he 3towns it… That would generally suck and make me hate life, but after thinking, he calls. Turn is the 5s, putting two clubs and two spades out, and he checks. I’m not really sure what kind of range I put him on here, but herp derp I haz overpair in 3bet pot, so I make it $245. He thinks even longer, then calls. River a red queen, and he checks. I check back quickly, and his KK is good.
Another interesting hand with an unknown player. A weaker player starting around $600 opens to $15, I 3bet in position to $55 with AKo, and a young Indian guy playing the $1k max who just sat down cold 4bets to $170 from SB. The weaker player calls. Hmmmmm. I think 5betting here would be a tad excessive, and I have position so I flat, planning to rip it over any action if I make a pair. Flop 6-6-2, and the 4bettor checks? Other guy checks, um, so I check back. Turn is a 9, 4bettor leads out $220, other guy calls. I guess I’m done, so I fold. River another deuce, 4bettor shoves, other guy calls with JJ and loses, to 7s6s.
Well, as Sun Tzu once said, “All war is deception.”
Please, sir, teach me how to cold 4bet crap from the SB and flop trips like it’s supposed to be there.
Anyway, after establishing that juicy of an image, he proceeded to go into lockdown, and the game wasn’t that good so I racked up.
Last edited by TJ Eckleburg12; 06-10-2023 at 01:01 AM.