I dare you to say that to my face.

#aggro

i approve of this and look forward to following

I'm glad to have dodged being mentioned in yesterday's ramblings despite having skipped the massive 5 player tourney to play 2-5 with you

Today they played heads up. $125 entry fee winner got $200. Makes sense.

Wonder if they chopped.

PAHWM:

Villain is a fairly aggro reg. Hands are somewhat face up. Very bright guy, knows and respects my game (This is not what makes him bright, but obviously he understands and recognizes true genius). Sometimes overcommits with marginal holdings (Big mid-big PPs on scary textures, TPTK-type hands), but overall fairly solid. I doubt he knows how strong I am when I RR. He does not tend slowplay when he smashes a board, and will (almost?) never slowplay a big hand on a wet board.


I have T J on button. He opens 30 in HJ, his standard opening raise. (There may have been a prior caller but I don't think so.)

I flat. We are heads up. ~$700 effective.

Flop T J Q


He leads 45 I make it 115 and he makes it 330.

I do not believe this is a bluff. I believe he thinks he has the best hand.

What do u do?

I gii, but what would I know...

What are you beating?
99
KK
AcQc
Air

Fold. I stack off there but I'm a donktard not a spewtard.

Ugh nasty spot. As played, I would prob call and make yet another tough call/fold on turn. I think I'm prob calling brick turns for the remaining $400 or whatever since based on your description V could have KK-AA, AQ and QXcc. I would prob fold to scare turn card shove. Both decisions would rely a lot on read and history.

I prob just call the flop instead of raising, though, for any number of reasons: pot control, strengthening your calling range, possibly turning your hand into bluff on some run outs in case you're beat, texture is tough gii spot even vs someone totally clueless, annoying effective stack size, etc.

As played, I would fold when he makes it 330. However, I would have just called the $45 flop bet rather than raising it as there are lots of combos that straight up beat us, and nearly a dozen combos that can raise us off the best hand.

I agree with Bus and Aves that calling is the best play, and this is definitely a spot where my default is to call, but to balance my raising range against this player, I raised here. (Faulty logic, Busticator? Maybe I overthought it a bit...)

In a sense this WAS my balancing play, as I tend to play draws very strongly in these situations. I prob call here 80%, so this was a bit of a non-standard play for me. I am known, however, for applying quite a bit if pressure on players in these types situations, and I can't always be doing it when drawing/flipping.

I was honestly expecting a flat here or a smaller raise back. My plan was to raise or call any rr, but I wasn't expecting him to commit me. I honestly was expecting him to flat or CIB.

I don't think I can call, because aside from boating up, there isn't really a card in the deck I want to see. (And even J/T may be no good).

I honestly didn't even consider calling as an option here. Maybe I should have?

I think the bottom of his range here is a hand like QK/AQcc. So basically I'm likely flipping at very best. (Which I suppose gives some credence to call flop te shoving blanks, tho I doubt I'd be given the option to shove the turn). I think he's calling everything on the turn, so the difference between shoving here and on turn gives some false equity. (If the money is going to go in regardless, may as well be the one shoving and hope I have maybe some slight fold equity...I think the 25% equity I theoretically could gain by waiting for a blank to hit before acting is in part an illusion. If I'm gonna fold all scare cards then i don't give myself the 10% chance for a resuck, plus he's likely not checking anything on the turn...)

Does that make sense? It does in my head, but not sure if in properly expressing it ITT.

I also hate getting myself into spots where even if I got the best possible card, I could still be drawing dead (or close to it).

As evidenced by this blog, I can be a bit too open at times, and I have in the past told this player to stop showing me his hands, as I was using this information against him. (After all, my goal is to beat 10/25, not 2/5, so sometimes I give up equity to make things a bit tougher on myself.)

Of course this time he listened to my advice, and refused to show me what he had.

Regardless of his holdings, I think he made a great play here, as there is no hand here so can truly be comfortable with (even AK can be up against a freeroll (unlikely) or 30-40% equity hand) (highly likely).

My results:

Nah brah I think folding is totally fine. I'm too lazy to run the numbers (ESP on my phone), but I would be surprised if folding is a clear mistake.

As for balancing in this particular instance, not sure that you need to worry too much about that when raising this board. For one, your hand strength is mediocre so it doesn't fit into strong-or-weak camp. In fact I don't think you need weak on this kind of board unless people are doing a lot of creative stuff playing super deep (like 300BB+), prob can raise with only very strong made hands or very strong drawing hands. That is, in a vacuum, you prob shouldn't be raising this board at all unless you're willing to get it in for 100-200BBs. Now if we were deeper and had backdoor diamonds, it would be fun to peel one off.

On the other hand, calling is better because you play a lot of hands and you'll be floating with things like TX, any two clubs, maybe A9o with Ac, KX with a club, also all pairs. Including bottom two in that range makes you tougher to play against post turn. Also the pot will be smaller and there will be more ways for you to win the hand in position.

That said, I think folding is prob optimal as played. I was only advocating calling off vs this particular opponent given his description and for meta game purposes. Against someone I play with a lot, I'm prob gonna force them to have extremely strong hands when they wanna mess with me on a board this coordinated, and I might just have them make me show their hands for 100-200BBs haha. But that might be why I no longer win in poker so, again, fold lol.

The guy to King Fish's right right now is SOOOO bad. I call him Dr. Feel Good. Makes me feel better about my play.

Today I just tilted as hard as I ever tilted before.

Should be +4k on a bad day with hands I had. -2k.

Double sucks because I got myself out if a 2k hole and then all I needed for for te nuts to hold 1 time and fade 1 card.....

/end whine
**** off

Yeah... stop doing that!

Played the big boys game (5/5 PLO) for the first time Friday night for a nice profit. Felt good to hold my own against sharks w/a much larger roll...

2/2 PLO was amazing on Saturday - 4 hrs... up a bunch, went home. You should play the game more often and give the 2/5 players a break from your incessant beatings.

Had some unexpected family issues arise. Prob won't play for a bit. Maybe next week.

Played for second time this month yesterday. I played like ****.

Hope to play a little less worse tomorrow. Need to get my head out of my ass and focus. And focusing while at the table has been a big issue lately (been having a hard time filtering out external personal distractions for extended periods at the table).

Hope to get a few hours in tomorrow, sit down, and just try to reconnect with that zone.

Sit down and realize you just suck at poker

Got to play about 5 hours today. Rock tight table. Only 1 person driving any action (and it wasn't me).

Played meh. Made $25 on day.

Biggest hand of day:

Straddled $15. 2 callers I call in CO with 7 7

BB makes it 55 (tight reg; if he bets, he usually has a hand).

1 caller to me, I call. ($500 effective behind).

Flop 7 A 5

We all check.

Turn 4

BB leads 75, Straddler calls, I raise to 225. BB tank calls. straddler folds

River 7
(That is a good card for me.)

BB checks I shove all in 275 more he snaps.

Shows AK

The snap call isn't as bad as it sounds. We have history, and he knows I'd very rarely bet into him here with a flush because his range leans heavily towards full houses. So, my shove in his eyes is polarized, and he made his decision once he committed to the turn.

So either I have the nuts or his Aces are good. And against him, he's probably right.

i think averaging 5bb/100 hands at those limits maybe somewhat ambitious. then again, i dont play them so I may be off here.

At a crazy table. Every AIPF confrontation has involved at least 5 hands.

Got uber unlucky and lost one with QQ VS 66 for big main. 6 riv.

Very next hand I get KK AIPF 4-way and it holds up.

God dam I need to move there. Knowing my luck at the card table when everyone is going nutz with the all ins, I would be holding 74o, T4s etc slowly crying to myself.

If I could get my 75-80% favorites to hold up I would be up about 6k.

Same dumb mother****er I was 0-8 as getting money in as 80% or better.

Last hand I play his blind 1 called I make it 45 in MP WITH AA BECAUSE NOW HE WILL CALL

FLOP 952r he checks I bet 90 he calls. Turn 8 he checks I 150 he calls.

River k he bets 200 I call he has K5

8th time he did that or very similar to me today. If it wa a home game I would be sure he was cheating.

And lest u think I speak hyperbole, plenty of 2p2 witnesses.

I just left an amazing game on tilt because I feel like there is no way I will get a hand to hold.

And for try giving me good advice or saying blah blah blah that what u want at the table.

I know you do you dumb **** and that's why in so ****ing pissed off right now.

**** off.

Calls down second pair against top set for stacks but against me I hit a set and he hits some odd runner runner combo.

I want to skull **** his eye sockets.

Not sure if that is allowed in casino or if I need to go to parking lot. I'll ask the floor.