yeah I looked it up before you posted... Last Airbender fire princess thing. You are a girl tho right?

Calling a 5Xer on BTN with AQ is not bad at all. I guess its fine to fold AQo but AQs is too pretty to pass up. I'm sure you're smart enough to not overplay it on an Axx type board. If you have some reads on villains then you should have a decent idea of how to maneuver post flop.

Against some villains you can even consider 3betting, although I personally hate 3ing AQoff cuz you only get action from a stronger range.

You are so good for the game

OK I'll add one of these. My last session a few days ago was "one of those days". Limping middle connectors flopping trips and getting out kicked a couple times, playing suited connectors fast hitting the flush and getting out flushed etc. Mostly losing the minimum but not picking up anything in between.

1/2 game I am shortest stack involved with a bout $150. I decide to play J10 from Middle position opening for $10. Button 3bets to 30 and BB calls. I'm getting better than 3:1 on a call with a speculitive hand that is at worst a 4:1 dog with decent implied odds given multiway action ... WTH.

Flop: 7 8 10

Top Pair, Flush Draw, Gutter, Gutter to the straightflush. As close to a dream flop as I can hope for... behind but a favorite most likely. BB bets $45 into $90 I shove $120 AI. Button makes crying call, BB insta calls.

Turn: J Yahtzee!!

River: 8

I hate poker

So I guess BTN had QQ+ and likely KK+, what about BB? My guess is 99.

gg run better.

Late morning Weds 3/5.

Running pretty good. Crazy asian business owner well known here, they call him KK, super aggro sits down. His best friend the dealer named John sits to his left.

I end up bluffing KK off of TPGK, J hi flop with 10-9, i had nothing. i show him, he gets all tilty, my plan to start with.

John starts telling me im a donkey and hes going to take my money.

A few hands later I get AK, its a straddled pot. Im in EP i limp seeing if straddler is going to make a move here. 5 callers.

flop A K X, checks to me I bet 20, john instacalls (i made same bet when i bluffed, was hoping i get 3bet), i more caller.

Turn K

check, i bet 60 (again same turn bet when i bluffed KK), John insta calls, other guy folds.

River X.

I tank, bet 200, looking for action VS A John calls flips over KQ.

Hes mad, im mad i didnt go for the c/r, he talks sht rest of the night, i leave up 1000 hour later.

trips vs. boat on that board... you didn't exactly pwn him.

this...

Not much annoys me more then those who either cooler you or suckout, then proclaim there greatness. Hero calls with 3rd pair, yes, awesome, but not getting it in with 9s vs kings and sucking out, or set over setting me. Matusow vs negreanu on hsp is a good example

Just for you guys then. I've been reading through my old hand historiess again, and here's the sickest bluff I've ever pulled:

Villain is one of those 'entitled' regs. You know, whenever he loses it's obviously because everyone else plays terrible, and when he wins it's because he's the world's greatest. He also plays really transparent so it's pretty easy to punish him when he's weak and get out of the way when he's strong. We'd already had words a bit when I defended some old man that villain had berated when the old man called villain's shove on a K 5 2 5 board with AK, villain had 22, and a five hit the river.

Anyway, here we go:

Stakes - 2/5 NL

Hero: Button ($3000)
Villain: MP ($2800)

This was a max $1000 buy-in 2/5 game that had been running for awhile, villain had apparently nitted his way up from his $500 buy-in by running like god the past fifteen hours and I had managed to luckbox a double-up and a few other big pots.

Anyway, Villain raises to $25 pre, I flat with 2d3d OTB since he only ever raised with picture cards/big PP, so I figured I could pretty much play perfectly against him. Everyone else folds so we're heads up.

Pot ($50)

Flop: Js Td 4d

He checks right away. I'm a little suspicious but I figure I can probably get him to fold whiffed AQ+ type hands and maybe get him to fold 88-99 on later streets if I decide to barrel, so I chuck in two green chips.

He immediately makes it $150. I call because I figured there's implied if I hit my diamond, and who knows he might be spazzing and he'll give up. If he has top pair or better he's never folding so no point in 3betting it.

Pot: ($350)

Turn: 5s

Right after the turn card hits he pushes $300 in. I have a pretty good read on the guy so I now surmise he has a one-pair hand that feels super vulnerable and wants the hand to end. I decide to just call in the end because my draw is so big I'm basically getting the bare odds to hit.

Pot: ($950)

River: 3s

Whee, I hit a pair i guess. He looks like he's about to bet and instead checks real quick and gives me a look that says "Go ahead kid, bet. You know I'll snap you off".

So, I obliged. By sticking in my entire $2500 stack.

I knew he never would play a flush like this and he'd fold everything except maybe a set, so I thought it'd work a high percentage of the time. He was ready to snap off a $600 river bet, but he looked sick to his stomach when he saw he had to call off his entire hard-earned stack to pick me off.

He tanked so long that like ten other people surrounded the table waiting to see what he did. Eventually he folded QQ face up. I simply flipped up the 2d as I collected the chips and villain proceeded to repeatedly call me a 'moron' for the next half hour before trying to triple barrel me when I flopped a boat.

Matusow: KK
Negreanu: 98

Flop: 9K9 .... 350K pot

The best thing from that was Matusow saying "That's how you play poker boys" or something like that.

yep, thats how you play poker, just cooler the **** out of people.

no but funny how things turned out where he berates me then I take 300 from him an orbit later.

never said i pwned him. If that was the case I would have posted the hand where I bluffed the guy with 10-9.

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didn't Matusow limp that pre? i thought that was why it was so f'd up. then again it is HSP, theres no such thing as a std line

His whole run was sick. I am sure there were a lot of PO'ed people when he won and racked up.

It doesn't really matter that he won and racked up since even if they "forced" him to stay for another 6hours, he wouldn't give any action... just blind it all off.

By the way, I remember Elky raised and matusow folding KQsuited from the BB. Thats like a crime in my book. Can't just fold royalty to one raise.

i thought it was benyamine if the top of my head but yes, lol matusow

Playing 1/2 at Delaware Park. It is getting late (early in the AM actually) and I have been at a table for hours folding everything. Everything. I started blogging on my Facebook page every hand I folded, a litany of J4 and Q7 and similar dreck. I was coming off as the ultimate rock in the universe and joked that when I did pick up a big hand I wouldn't get paid off because everyone would fold.

Old guy in the cutoff after the usual half dozen limpers makes a big raise to $17 pre. I am in the BB and I see two lovely Aces. I figured that passive old guy (POG) had something good. I also figured that my card dead ways makes me look like the tightest guy in the world so I worry that if I repop it that I will get all the respect and take down a whopping $25 or so pot. Still, I believe that a call will invite some of the limpers to come to the party and I didn't want to have my Aces in a multiway out of position with a dwindling stack (now down to about $180 or so).

Keeping all of this in mind, I decide to participate in some gamesmanship and I just pick up whatever chips I have in front of me and throw them forward, acting disgusted and saying "I bet whatever that is." I wanted to give the image of a man on tilt.

Turns out I raised it to about $55 or $60 (actually about what I wanted) and it folded around to the old guy who had me covered. He thought about it for a long time, asking me several times "Do you have Ace King?" That line of questioning told me I was against an underpair... Except then he finally shrugs and says "I will put you all in."

I instacall and flip the Aces. "Nice hand" he mutters, showing, not the Jacks or Queens I assumed but... Ace-Queen of spades! Which naturally explains why he wanted to put me on AK...

Anyway, you know how this goes. I assumed my fate was sealed when two spades flopped and the dealer was kind enough to put the third out on the turn, saving me from an eventful river before I packed up and went home.

To balance that out, here's a hand from the card room I played in from time to time before Delaware Park opened up:

A few weeks before, I folded AK pre to two maniacs, both of whom I had dominated, and I threw away a $600 pot. I posted about it on 2+2 and was lambasted for my nittery. I decided that the next time I had Big Slick I would play it differently...

I get it in early position which was perfect since I wanted to limp-reraise and represent something stronger. So I do and a college kid accomodates me by raising it up to $12 a couple seats after me. A caller or two comes along and I repop it to $50. Original raiser thinks about it and calls and we take the flop head's up.

Before the cards come out I announce "All in" since I only had about $150 left and the pot was over $100. And just as the dealer's hand is leaving the Queen-Rag-Rag rainbow of a flop, villain instacalls.

"Well, you have to have me," I say.

Villain turns over Aces. "You have what I wanted to represent," I solemnly moaned. "Bad time to make a move with Ace-King."

The dealer burns and turns a Jack and I say "...unless he puts a ten out there," and sure enough, a beautiful ten gives me the nuts.

I actually meant the apology to the Aces guy, but I am pretty sure he didn't believe me.

Brag: Played all of 3 hands in 3 hours yesterday morning, and got paid for all 3 of them. I'll be posting 2 as HHs for feedback, but one played itself - bottom set vs. top 2 pair. I love being able to nit up live and still get paid.

LOL I didn't realize I neglected to post villain hands... Y button was QQ BB was KK.

Brag: I turn trip aces with A8 in limped pot with A 6 7 A board.
Beat: Villain is 75, wearing a "history channel" cap, hasn't played a pot since he was about 73 and leads into me ($12 into about $35) when the river duce hits. LOL
Variance: he has A9.

I love live poker... A history channel cap. I would have missed that online.

gettin value

This from yesterday.

Drunk guy sits down to my left. He chats me up while folding for awhile and we're getting along great. Then after about 15 minutes he sees a flop and shoves all in. He gets picked off by a shortacker and shows Ts6s for NO PAIR NO DRAW. Loses half his chips to the shorty. The very next hand he sees the flop and shoves over the cbet and shows Qh8h for NO PAIR NO DRAW. "I was going for the flush," he explained. Mind you, the flop was A-high and contained one spade, one club, and one diamond.



He gets up to go to the ATM, comes back and rebuys. The very next hand I have two black nines and raise from EP. He calls, the flop comes 762r so I cbet and he shoves over my cbet.

"I have to call" I say, and he shows me 22.

*sigh* Chips!

LMAO... he set you up good. He was actually dumping money to two of his buddies in the previous two hands. Oldest trick in the book, didn't you read Super System.

thiiiiin value I believe LOL.