My table image has been very loose only because I had shown one monster bluff, other than that I was playing mostly TAG poker with very little showdowns.

Hand 1:
V1($700) is a very loose player calling about half of his hands every orbit and V2($200) is relatively new to the table so there isn't any information on his playing style.

Hero(@$600) Straddles $5 66
V1 calls, MP player calls, and V2 calls, I check my option

Flop($20) 6 8 10
Hero: check
V1: Bets 10
MP calls 10
V2 raises to 20
Hero: raises to 55
v1 and MP: folds
V2: Insta shoves for 155 more

Hero: ??

Hand 2

V1($450) is an older gentleman who I showed the bluff to earlier only because the table was playing so tight and he has only shown down premium hands.

Hero(@$800) Straddles $5 with 810
V1 calls, two LP players and the SB and BB come along as well

Flop($30) J 9 2

Hero: Checks
V1: Bets $15, everyone folds to me and I call $15

Turn($60) Q

Hero: Checks
V1: bets $20
Hero: C/R to $68
V1: calls

River($196): 9
Hero: ???

Thanks

hand 1:

lead for 15, and get it in

as played snap call, v2 can have 10 8, JJ, 10 6, 8 6, and even against the nuts you have equity


hand 2:

B/F 100

he probably will call with KQ AQ

he is incapable of bluff raising so b/f, f he raises: turbo-muck

Did we stop doing the "One hand to a post" thing or am I just so freaking old on these forums that I am playing by ancient rules?

Oh well...Give me a min and I'll do my usual dissection on both hands.

Hand 1: is a super easy call. You're close to getting the right odds to call even against a straight but her range is much wider than that.

Hand 2 : bet/fold 125 into 196. With hero's bluffy image, he'll pay you off possibly as light as KJ but he's also calling with QT, QJ, KQ so we have to go for value. If he raises, you know you're beat.

For hand 1 your pots odds are 155/460 = 33%.

Our odds of improving our set to a fullhouse or quads by the river are always 35%. So even if she flips over 97 for the made straight, calling here is slightly profitable.

The only way we could fold is if she specifically showed us TT or 88 and set over set doesn't happen very often.

*Cue Poker Sax Music* - GRUNCH

V1 is Loose, but how is he playing OTF+? Is he LP Post or is he TAG Post?

V2 is new, and short stacked compared to V1 and Hero. No info.

/begin rambling

Straddles Straddles everywhere, and not a purpose for them in sight. Whee. Has poker become like sex, where the more you do the less exciting it gets....so you have to do different things to spice it up? Pretty soon I bet we see things like "Have every seat straddle PF and then deal one card face up around the table. Those cards are burned AND the highest three cards have to put in a raise, a two bet, and a three bet. THEN we can start dealing cards, but in reverse order. And every three hands we all redraw for new seats. We'll call it WTFAMIDOING poker!!"

Eh, don't mind my rambling. I'm a sarcastic (sh)nit. Moving on.

/end rambling


So we're OOP with a middle-ish pp. Eh....something inside me is screaming "RAISE RAISE RAISE" here. Right now I cant justify that move. It's just something that's coming to me as I read this hand. I'd like to say that raising a decent amount here is going to get the bananna republic hands out of the equasion, but with how limpy-cally you are describing V1 it might not work. Still, Getting some people to drop out is a good thing. In this particular spot, I'd try to thin the field.

Any particular reason as to why are we checking bottom set on a draw-ish board? Please bet here. If they're as station-y as we think we're going to get called.

Meep. V2 only had $200 at the start of the hand, so with our $55 raise here we've basically put him in for 1/2 his stack. Are we folding here? Probably not, unless you are convinced you are beat.

*Cue Poker Sax Music* - GRUNCH

I'm never a fan of showing any bluffs, I'd much rather keep stealing pots, and keeping my opponents predictable and under my thumb. But there ARE good reasons for doing so, and I recognize that it may be one of those times.


Are you down with OOP? Yeah...you know me.

I'm fine witht he flat call here. It's a dry board and you have a draw a straight. It's not the nuts, TQ is the nut draw but as many professors have often said to me "You have potential!"

Side note, I often dissapointed my professors. It's why I'm commenting on LLNL in a poker forum and not shaving thin value in the nosebleeds of science.

Well holy crap. We're sitting on the 2nd nuts, we check, and get someone to bet into us. OTF he bets 1/2 the pot, and now he bets 1/3rd the pot. Eh...I'm not thinking too harshly here. He's playing tight and showing down premium hands, so He's range is probably alot of broadway cards with some pocket pairs. Maybe he hit JJ or 99 and is slowplaying trips. Badly.

Whatever the case, I'd raise more than $68. We already have a pot of decent size and we have the 2nd nuts, only KT beats you here and if our TAG is micro-raising OTF with a gutshot straightdraw he's not as "TAG" as we thought.

Unless he has something like 99, J9 or Q9 (Which since you are here, I'm assuming he nailed a FH or better), if you were ahead on the turn you are ahead on the river. Go ahead and bet. More often than not you are ahead here and you want to extract some value.

Don't straddle if u won't raise hand 1 pre imo

First of all, let me apologize I was not aware of the 1 hand per post if that is a rule, as this is my first time posting.

Secondly, I appreciate all the criticism. I have been playing poker for nearly 4 years now and have only been a break even or slightly better player. I am wanting to evolve and take my game to another level and I don't have friends here who play consistently so I am here to take all the advice I can get, while understanding the thought process behind it.

I realize I need to work on my observation skills in describing the game and player dynamics as it relates to each individual hand, so this is somehthing I will work on.

Hand 1, I ended up folding. He eventually talked me into folding. I trully felt he could only have 88 or 10, but in reality, he showed 79 for the flopped strait, bad fold? After all the discussion now, apparently so.

Hand 2, The river I ended up betting 105 and he paid me off with QJ. I just wanted to get a consensus on my play on that spot.

Hopefully I can get some more hands on here soon and get some more great input, thanks.

Don't straddle. All we're doing is paying yet a 3rd more expensive blind, OOP, with typically absolutely crap, plus destroying our huge implied odds.

GhasneverstraddledG

Hand 1: Fist pump call.

Hand 2: Bet/fold $125.

Hand 1 is a call.

Hand 2 your turn reraise is too small. $48 more into a pot of over $100? We need to raising to closer to $100.

River is a bet/fold as mentioned by many others against an old man V.