Hello all,
Im looking for any advice here. If you see any horrific lines taken by Hero or gross sizing mistakes or just anything you feel would be constructive to point out please criticize away. The stacks I kept at 2k and the only hand that it might be a little off is the last hand where villain is about 1.8k deep to start the hand instead of 2k.
All of these hands are from the same session and are in the sequence from which they happen. Most of these villains are aged 30-60 and are of Chinese descent (like from China not just Americans with Chinese heritage). I only include this because it seems they played with a certain rage to their game. Most of them have deep pockets and none are pro-players but all are 4x/week reg players. They are far from the normal weak tight fish, but are all bad in their own way. It would be tldr if I include all reads on villains so if you have any questions feel free to ask and Ill reply in comments. Im going to show the last actions in the hand and the result for the sake of being able to be criticized on my river play. Obv please dont let the outcome influence your advice. Thanks.
Hand Information
, 5 BB (9 handed).
Hand History converter courtesy of pokerhandreplays.com
Table Information
Seat: 1 seat 1 ($2000) Small Blind
Seat: 2 seat 2 ($2000) Big Blind
Seat: 3 seat 3 ($2000)
Seat: 4 seat 4 ($2000)
Seat: 5 seat 5 ($2000)
Seat: 6 seat 6 ($2000)
Seat: 7 seat 7 ($2000)
Seat: 8
seat 8 ($2000)
Seat: 9 seat 9 ($2000) Dealer
Dealt to
seat 8
Preflop (Pot:7)
seat 3
FOLD
seat 4
CALL
seat 5
CALL
seat 6
CALL
seat 7
FOLD
seat 8 RAISE $45
seat 9
FOLD
seat 1
FOLD
seat 2
FOLD
seat 4
FOLD
seat 5
CALL
seat 6
FOLD
Flop(Pot: $102)
seat 5
CHECK
seat 8 CHECK
Turn(Pot: $102)
seat 5
CHECK
seat 8 BET $75
seat 5
CALL
River(Pot: $252)
seat 5
BET $175
seat 8 RAISE $475
seat 5
FOLD
Showdown:
seat 8 MUCKS
seat 8 wins the pot: $902
Prior to this hand I had a clean image. On this hand I had noticed that many of them (in particular this villain) were limp/calling about 80% of hands and were commonly getting to showdown vs each other with very weak holdings. My plan was to 3 barrel this hand from the beginning IF I ONLY GOT 1 caller otf, b/c I felt that eventhough I had showdown value, the river bet just gets folds from every Ax Tx and I make a lot of money on avg when they call/call/fold. So I actually wanted ot be called otf & ott . My biggest Qs here are: should I not be attempting to exploit them in this way? Is this a bad turn / river to follow through with plan? I know some straights get there, and I also know that he can def. have peeled the flop with any 8x since he's so wide on all streets. Is this one of the nut worst runouts to continue with plan?
Hand Information
, 5 BB (10 handed).
Hand History converter courtesy of pokerhandreplays.com
Table Information
Seat: 1 seat 1 ($2000) Small Blind
Seat: 2
seat 2 ($2000) Big Blind
Seat: 3 seat 3 ($2000)
Seat: 4 seat 4 ($2000)
Seat: 5 seat 5 ($2000)
Seat: 6 seat 6 ($2000)
Seat: 7 seat 7 ($2000)
Seat: 8 seat 8 ($2000)
Seat: 9 seat 9 ($2000)
Seat: 10 seat 10 ($2000) Dealer
Dealt to
seat 2
Preflop (Pot:7)
seat 3
CALL
seat 4
CALL
seat 5
CALL
seat 6
FOLD
seat 7
FOLD
seat 8
FOLD
seat 9
FOLD
seat 10
FOLD
seat 1
FOLD
Flop(Pot: $12)
seat 2 BET $15
seat 3
FOLD
seat 4
FOLD
seat 5
CALL
Turn(Pot: $42)
seat 2 BET $35
seat 5
CALL
River(Pot: $112)
seat 2 BET $300
seat 5
CALL
Showdown:
seat 5 SHOWS
seat 2 MUCKS
seat 5 wins the pot: $712
This hand was interesting. Like I said these guys are aggro and I expected to be geting played back at after showing the overbet bluff. Leading up to this hand I had been opening a lot of pots and taking them down relatively uncontested. The villain in this particular hand is probably the most aggro player on the table BUT, I ended up folding the river vs. shoving/calling based on a live read of fake weakness he was giving off so I'm pretty confident with the read. The one other thing to add is that this villain (in hindsight) seemed aggro when initiative was "released" when checked to him or when hero checks back. I hadnt seen any ch/r bluffs from him, so its possible this line doesnt mean bluff, but its weird anyways b/c hes so ridiculously polarized. I almost shoved river b/c I thought he might have decided to x/r bluff with any pair on the board and most importantly the only draw 34 picked up a pair on the river. Villain snap x/r & barreled otf & ott but then kind of paused for about 10 secs otr before barreling 800 which spooked me a bit. My read on him was that he snap bets weak usually. Im sure there will be some that hate this hand...and I hate the outcome mostly b/c I know call/call/fold is the worst line I can take vs this guy, but in the moment I just couldnt bring myself to pull the trigger otr and I think its for the best.
Hand Information
, 5 BB (10 handed).
Hand History converter courtesy of pokerhandreplays.com
Table Information
Seat: 1 seat 1 ($2000) Small Blind
Seat: 2 seat 2 ($2000) Big Blind
Seat: 3 seat 3 ($2000)
Seat: 4 seat 4 ($2000)
Seat: 5 seat 5 ($2000)
Seat: 6 seat 6 ($2000)
Seat: 7 seat 7 ($2000)
Seat: 8
seat 8 ($2000)
Seat: 9 seat 9 ($2000)
Seat: 10 seat 10 ($2000) Dealer
Dealt to
seat 8
Preflop (Pot:7)
seat 3
FOLD
seat 4
FOLD
seat 5
FOLD
seat 6
FOLD
seat 7
FOLD
seat 8 RAISE $20
seat 9
FOLD
seat 10
FOLD
seat 1
CALL
seat 2
CALL
Flop(Pot: $47)
seat 1
CHECK
seat 2
CHECK
seat 8 BET $35
seat 1
RAISE $150
seat 2
FOLD
seat 8 CALL
Turn(Pot: $382)
seat 1
BET $300
seat 8 CALL
River(Pot: $982)
seat 1
BET $800
seat 8 FOLD
Showdown:
seat 1 MUCKS
seat 1 wins the pot: $1782
The action in this hand is me vs the same aggro villain in the hand above that ch/r and barreled me off. He is btn and the reason I 3b this hand is for 2 reasons. 1: I noticed that he plays really poorly when checked to and I wanted to have the initiative and give it up to him post flop if I flopped a pair. He just basically pots his entire range when checked to. 2: The EP limper tilted his hand accidentally toward me when he was initially dealt it and so I saw his A7o....so I 3b with plans on foldingn out the A7 limper and c-betting most all Axx boards and maybe barreling 2 streets. In this hand for some reason the hand converter doesnt show my hold cards K9o until showdown.
Hand Information
, 5 BB (10 handed).
Hand History converter courtesy of pokerhandreplays.com
Table Information
Seat: 1 seat 1 ($2000) Small Blind
Seat: 2 seat 2 ($2000) Big Blind
Seat: 3 seat 3 ($2000)
Seat: 4 seat 4 ($2000)
Seat: 5
seat 5 ($2000)
Seat: 6 seat 6 ($2000)
Seat: 7 seat 7 ($2000)
Seat: 8 seat 8 ($2000)
Seat: 9 seat 9 ($2000)
Seat: 10 seat 10 ($2000) Dealer
Dealt to
seat 5
Preflop (Pot:7)
seat 3
FOLD
seat 4
FOLD
seat 5 CALL
seat 6
FOLD
seat 7
FOLD
seat 8
FOLD
seat 9
RAISE $25
seat 10
FOLD
seat 1
FOLD
seat 2
RAISE $80
seat 5 FOLD
seat 9
CALL
Flop(Pot: $197)
seat 2
CHECK
seat 9
BET $125
seat 2
CALL
Turn(Pot: $447)
seat 2
CHECK
seat 9
BET $250
seat 2
RAISE $850
seat 9
ALL-IN
seat 2
CALL
River(Pot: $3917)
Showdown:
seat 2 SHOWS
seat 9 MUCKS
seat 2 wins the pot: $3917
I get very lucky ott here as villain showed up with the ABSOLUTE top of his range for not 4betting. He had QQ here, but Im sure he is much, much wider than this would lead you to believe, esp on this texture.
Thanks all for responses. Flame away!
Last edited by Ssslipnssslide; 10-29-2012 at 08:25 PM.