thanks dudes
played the WSOP-E today.
day 1
swapped some % with rayjing and foursixfour and had one of them on my table all day lol
hands:
very first hand some dude who i m at the time readless against opens to 150 at bb50 with 10k eff stacks. i m otb and 3b 8
6
which seems pretty decent to 450. russia guy in sbe cold 4bets sb to 1300 and i fold. insta immage kill
open another couple hands before next orbit i 3b A
A
in CO vs same guy who by now has shown to 3bet T9o and KQo vs ep/mp opens so some online mtt clicker most likely. he calls
(975) J
5
3
checks i bet 550 he calls
(2075) 6
he leads 800.
feels like a fairly std call as raising is a bit meh
(3675) J
he checks
felt super close between small bet and check but i took the nitty route and checked and won vs TT
hand 2:
9
9
open to 375 at bb150
same dude as other two hands calls in bb
(800) K46r checks i bet 400. call
(1600) 6o ch ch
(1600) K46 6 6
checks. i feel like i def missed a thin bet here as i expect him to lead Kx 99% of the time. i check and win vs A4
hand 3:
new guy joins table. wedding ring. grey hair. in his late 40s. opens utg to 3x and i call sb with K
Q
. debateable but i felt like plaiyng pots vs what is likely a weaker player.
(700) J
8
4
check check
(700) 9
i bet 550 planning to bluff non spade non ace rivers fairly sizeably. i think this bet in itself likely shows profit as he s probably going to have a bunch of Ax and underpairs that just fold.
(1800) 7
i give up he checks behind AQ
hand 3:
same dude as earlier opens to 400at bb150 mp i 3b K
J
otb to 1050 he calls.
(2550) AQ3r checks i bet 700, calls
(3950) 7o i bet 1800 which roughly set up a river jam he tankfolds.
hand 4:
open A
Q
in MP to 500 at bb200 get called by russian who cold4bet me and who 3b sb vs my button the hand before with me folding 55
(1450) Q
8
5
i bet 750, call.
(2950) 8
.
i feel like russian has a ton of floats here. namely spades and backdoow hearts which he s going to bluff when checked to. conversely theres not enough hands that call 3 streets here so i check. he bets 1200 and i call.
(4350) 7
i check and he bets 2500 fairly quickly. i m fairly sure in that situation i remembered him slowly taking a bunch of smallish chios and taking his time when value betting. his 2500 was 2x 1k and 1x 500 chips. felt like this made him even more likely to be bluffing with his hearts. obv it sucks that spades got there but just cobo wise theres more hearts than spades in his range esp with me blocking the nut spades. i call he shows K
9
hand whatever
i open J
9
in CO, married older dude calls sb, rayjing calls bb
(1650) K
9
6
checks around
(1650) 7
checks to me and i bet 750, husband call rayjing fold
(3150) J
checks i bet 1800 he calls fairly quickly with presumably a king or maybe rivered jack.
next hand is my first proper mistake imo.
open K
9
in mp, get called by guy i ve played all the pots against in bb
(1250) K53r checks i bet 550, call
(2350) Ao check check
(2350) 6 he bets 1000.
think online vs normal reg i just shrugcall this becase its a spot where people bluff with up to 88 and defend a bunch wider. thing is that given the 99 hand he knows that a) i cbet very merged on flops like this and b) am apparently a little nitty on rivers so i felt it was reasonable that he bluffs a bunch of pairs on this board but even if he does sometimes its def not enough to make this a call. i called and lost to A4o
hand 8ish
rayjing opens to 600 in mp and some dude calls btn. their stacks are about 9-11k and i cover. i squeeze K
T
from sb to 1900. ray tankcalls and dude folds btn. i feel like ray is going ot be fairly strong here (AJ+, KQ, 88+ QT/Js+)
(4850) J
8
3
i m checkfolding here givne the above. ray checks behind.
(4850) 9
this is kind of a meh spot. in retrospect i think i should have kept checkfolding my particular hand as he just doesnt have enough ands that fold. sure a hand like KQss or AQo can find a fold here but those are very rare and he is entirely uncapped (i am too tho). i think if i check and he bets i dont have enough equity to call so if i check its a def fold vs a bet. i just thought that given i picked up a nutguter and him likely bluffing/vbetting quen and 7 rivers i had juuust ebout enough of a hand to bet 1800 here, having a little bit of FE and some cards with implied odds. he calls
(8450) bricks off entirely and i gave up. sure he will have a bunch of AQ type hands that fold to my jam but i think as a whole his range is way too strong to bluff this river. he jammed i folded.
i think i had about 11k at this point going into the 2nd break of the day and bb400 ande 50. i switched tables and got moved to foursixfour's table. older due with tons of chips on my right, two russians being russians on his right. pretty ideal table tbh.
hand 2.1:
open 88 in mp and f6f 3bets me. i jam and he folds.
hand 2.2:
happens after i open a ton of post and mainly take some pots down reflop to go from 12k to about 16k. russia1 opens CO i call 9
8
in bb
(2300) Q
7
5
check he bets 1000 i call. std so far
(4300) 6o dingdingding.
2 options here a) lead as its a really good card for my range or check likely to call and then raise river vs triple/ lead on board changing cards. i decided to check and russia checks behind
(4300) Jo
i feel like a) if i lead its really hard to put me on bluffs so he prob herofolds Jx. b) if i check i look like 5x or 7x and hes gonna vbet that jx+. so i check and he obliges by betting 1500. i xr to 5200 and get snapped by presumably rivered 2p+.
win a few more pots preflop to peak at 36000 going into bb800 after last break of the day.
then i played two hands i m unhappy about.
2.3:
open Q
J
in ep get called by grampa in bb. history for him is that he called sb with JTo vs f6f xc J
T
7
, turn ch ch on K
and he proudly bet 7
river and showed (lolol) so my read is the dude plays hands he thinks are strongish in that fashion
anyway he calls bb for 2200 at bb1000/100ante
(5000) A
Q
8
checkcheck
(5000) 5
he checks i bet 1600 he calls
(8200) A
he bets 3000. i mean. theres two ways of looking at this hand. a) he has flushes in his range. which means he has busted straight draws. or b) he just has some 2pair hand as he prob leads 90% of Ax on the turn (was very sure of this at the time). given pot odds etc i tanked forever and called as i really did think there was enough Q9 or ever 98 type hands in his range. got super owned by ATo
2.4
limp A
4
sb vs bigstack bb. clearly reg, made some squeezes in good spots, played very well mstly and in spots where ppl were weak made some bets that to me looked like the guy knows what capped ranges etc are. i felt like limp was slightly superior given my stack of about 24k at this point. he checks behind
(2600) A
J
8
i bet 1100, call.
(3800) 9
.
i think turn is close. we both have every combo of 2pair in our ranges so turn isnt necessarily better for him but i didnt want to massively build the pot and felt like i have fairly easy +ev decisions when i check and would have to check most rivers regrdless with my specific hand so rather have some top pairs in my turn xcalling range. i def see merit in bot. he checks behind. this removes most QT/T7/89+ hands from his range and means he has 1pair/Khi 99% of the time here imo
(3800) 7
.
bad card obv so check is std. he thinks and bets 3000. sizing wise obv he s repping the one card straight. but if we count combos here and go by my turn assumpions which seem to be very solid these are teh Tx he can have:
KT (mabye, could bluff turn, could raise pre, lets say 10 combos)
JT 16 combos
T9 16 combos
T8 16 combos
so thats 58 combos of straights and nothing else for value. given his sizing i need to be good about 30% when i call. now lets look at possible bluffs:
Khi (reasonable if he has KT to play this way that he checks hands like K6-K2 on the turn and bluffs river): gonna only give hiim 20 combos of the possible 96
7x/8x. very reasonable for him to turn what he will view as bottom of his range into a bluff. only 7x will be K7 in this instance and will only count a third of 82-86 which is 30 combos about.
so with me discounting a ton of bluffing combos he still has 50 combos that get to river in this fashion and can find a reasonable bluff. all that while he only needs to bluff 25 combos for me to break even. the true number of possible bluff combos is WAY higher, sth like 120 or so. i tankcalled and lost to KTo. tbh given the above i dont mind this hand too much.
2.5
f6f jams 6bb next orbit when i m in the bb and i call 22 and lose to his TT. nhnh. this leaves me with about 13000 chips at bb1200 ante 200.
in the last hand i manage to pick up AQo and steal the pot to finish the day on 16100chips going into 800/1600/200 tomorrow at 2pm. levels will be 60 minutes long so heres hoping. if i manage to get a few jams through this might turn into a real shot. 35 are left 21 cash. vamovamo