OMG, I had a mini-rush tonight. No good starting hands, really, but a lot of my speculative calls, light raises, etc. panned out for me and I shipped a $400 winning session.
here was the most interesting hand I played tonight:
I am in the cutoff. I have a $420 stack that was $500 four hands earlier. I lost the $80 or so on a few tough hands--folding TPTK to a shove by a set, stuff like that. Right before this hand was played, most of us at the table were joking about the change in my luck. As I was looking at my hand for this hand, I was saying, "yeah, I guess this is the part of the night where I give it all back to you guys."
BB said: "no reason to wait to play the hands out, just ship a stack over here."
I get dealt 88. There is one limper ahead of me.
I raise to $12, folded to the BB who calls, limper folds.
Flop: (~$25): J
7
5
Read on BB: 150bb stack. He is aggro. A pretty good TAg player who no doubt beats 1/2 live. He takes a lot of non-standard lines, such as donking into the pre flop raiser a lot. Unfortunately, I haven't seen him go to showdown with any of those plays, so I really don't know what range he is donking. But he seems pretty good, maybe mostly self-taught, since he does a lot of stuff like that.
Villain donks into me for $20. At this point I can't narrow his range much at all. I put him on anything with a jack, a flush draw, stuff like that--anything good enough to bet and try and get a fold from missed AK and AQ, a play I see a lot of these guys making with pocket pairs, and weakish made hands.
I call.
Turn (~$65): 3
Villain leads for $35, I make a pot odds call, and now think it is probably the case that I am only ahead of bluffs and spade draws.
River (~$135): 2
Villain bets $40.
Hero....
Last edited by mpethybridge; 09-18-2010 at 05:19 AM.