After some horrible results in the last few days, I came in Tuesday determined to log a nice long patient session. This was mostly effective but the table was awfully solid and adapted to some of my strengths in ways I hadn't really encountered before.
Bear in mind that my line in these hands is very similar to a line I take with TPTK heads-up: check turn, overbet river, get called. Problem is I don't always have those hands.
Bear in mind also that it'll become clear I plan ahead better early in a session than late.
In both hands Hero covers with roughly $500.
Hand 1: Talkative, self-deprecating V playing with $140 after sitting down with $80 or so; he seems, from his conversation, to play a lot of hours of poker recently, but he doesn't take control of hands. Seems afraid to see a flop with a premium hand.
After one limper, he tosses in two chips and only then realizes that they are red. This is not, it seems to me, an act. He raised accidentally.
I make it 25 from the SB with K
2
. Villain comments that "he gets stubborn": this is true, as he paid someone off in such a mode an hour ago. He calls.
Flop 6
7
8
. Villain has seen me steal (in position) and turn over a lot of low-stakes bluffs early in hands, and now he starts talking. "Oh man, I got stubborn and now you got all of that flop. That's right in your range. I call." (My bet was $25 again.)
Turn 7
. Check check. Villain says, "I'm not betting, I'm just calling cause you're betting." $100 in pot.
River 9
. I say "Now I gotta bet": $75.
Second hand: very different villain, speaks limited English, pretty old, a true regular and capable of caginess. Fairly tight. Makes it $10 second to act and I call on the button to set-mine with 4
4
.
Flop Q
2
6
. Villain checks. I bet $15, Villain calls. God, I'm an idiot.
Turn T
. ($50 in pot.) Check, I check behind.
River A
. Villain checks. Hero bets $50.
Flame away.