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Fold pre-flop. I don't think you're going to make a lot of money with 99 in this spot in the long run.
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Yeah i've noticed your flatting mediocre hands 3/4 handed where there only going to a) lose your money. b)get yourself in tricky spots.
Ecspecially 99 OOP in a 3 way pot isnt going to play well.
Yeah idk why I keep doing stuff like that. I have to stop flatting marginal hands in bad spots. I have been kind of tilted the past few days (before christmas) and couldn't get myself to play since I was spewing money. I decided to just take off until the new year to clear my head, and plus I had a lot of fun family/friend stuff to do so decided I don't need to grind 4NL right then. My next session I will make it a point to tighten up to 3 bets a bit more.
Finally got my first live session of the year in tonight. Played in the home game where I started my career at. Originally a .25/.50 NL, NLOmahaHi (lol), and crazy pineapple?? (play 0-3 cards in your hand, think its made up but idk) it is now a 1/2 game. Plays real small however, the average BI is less than $100 and around $40-60. I BI for $100 and cover the table most of the time if I am there from the start. out of the 7-8 that play, everyone is very predictable with their "style", dynamics are huge as the pool has played each other for years. 2-3 weak tights that don't bring money to the table, 3 real donators that make the game worth it (probably willing to drop $300-500 on a given night) and the others fall between.
My friend and I are the only ones that really bet our hands "optimally" (sub-optimally but exploitative to crush calling stations). I was actually banned from the game when I was 17-18 for a year because they accused me of cheating by working with my friend and sending signals and because I bet too much (crushing too much, betting 3 streets for value is unheard of. they were trying to find any excuse to ban me for a little while).
Anyway I had a run good session and two of the donators were there and I iso owned them all night. At the end I cashed out for a $770 profit. I did come up on one hand where I was kind of disappointed because I was betting too thin against the fish while my friend was in the hand to exploit my exploiting.
6 handed, late in the night. donator raises to $11 AI. I am next and just took out this guys stack ~$110 and I do the good ol' "yeah I'll donate to ya." (gotta degen a bit so I don't get banned) called with T
9
. Two others call, one is a calling station that doesn't bet and loves to put money in horrible, will call most pairs at least 2 streets (even omaha); the other is my friend and he calls $11.
PREFLOP:
MP: All in for $11
CO (HERO): $750 T
9
BTN (Calling station): $80
EP (friend): $500 (he rebought deep to combat me, hes down and is gambley-er then ussual)
POT:$47
FLOP: 9
7
6
friend checks, Hero bets $20, Calling station calls $20, Friend raises to $90, Hero sigh fold, station cry folds.
Now I was disappointed because I felt like I had so much equity but because I tried to squeeze the stations money, I got blown off. Could I ever justify flatting my friends bet? (just consider him a standard "reg" for theory sake, hes slightly more aggro than average). Its either that or check the flop. which would have been a better line iyo. (for all the online player readers, I know your like dude fold pre but you have to play a bit of live to somewhat relate to the dynamics of the game i'm in lol). ez fold? And yeah even live, I think this should have been a fold but just want some discussion on the hand I guess.
Live Profits 2013:
+$770