Oh man that hand was pure spew. I was getting way too FPS vs. a villain I thought I could outplay. Something you will find far too often in this thread, and I'm trying to work on that.
Welcome to the thread. I'm hopefully going to be updating more now that I'm playing a bit more regularly again. I mostly just try to post some interesting hands.
I played a short session Saturday where I doubled up nicely when I got my money in bad vs. a LAG who nailed the flop but I sucked out. Then I lost about half of it back on Monday, in a session where I felt like I mostly played OK. I ran a straight into a flush. I may have gone too big on that river when the flush hit, but I was destined to lose a decent chunk on that hand.
The biggest losing hand of the night was this one. 7 handed with a Button straddle of 5, and I have A
Q
in the BB, and make it 20. MP player calls and button calls. Button is a legit maniac seeing almost every flop from his button straddle. He has about $125 behind.
Flop ($60) K
J
7
. I c-bet $30, MP folds, and BTN calls. Turn is the 4
, and I jam for his last $75. He agonizes for a while before finally calling with KQo. I need an A, T, or diamond, but don't get one. He had been calling a lot of flops but giving up to big bets on the turn, so I felt like I could get him off a lot of his range on the turn.
Here's one hand I misplayed a bit, and has maybe added a slight wrinkle to the game I need to consider.
I raise ATo preflop to $12. A woman in the SB who is playing pretty loose calls. Flop comes something like KK6r. She checks, I c-bet $10, figuring I still have the best hand a lot. She calls. Turn comes a T. She checks. I bet $20. In hindsight, I don't like this bet. This feels like a WA/WB spot, and she has just about every K in her range. She calls. River is a blank, and she jams for her last $25. I paid off her K8.
The room I play in recently changed from a high hand every 4 hours promo to a full house pyramid. Every Monday they draw 3 cards, and the first person to hit a full house using that card full of something wins a bonus, with the prizes increasing until the last combo hits. That means there are 36 combos of full houses to hit. This week we have 3's full, 8's full, and K's full. What this seems to do is entice people to play loose when they have one of those cards in their hand (and the other card combo of the FH hasn't been hit yet). So I now have to be at least a little more worried when I see the board pair one of those cards. Also, I can't just assume that I will hear about trips on the flop & turn. The bonus incentivizes players to see the river to chase the full house. It appears that was going on here.
I try not to adjust my play much to chase bonuses, because I know I can play winning poker without doing this, but when I start passively playing stronger hands to chase a bonus, I don't know it's the right adjustment. But I do have to be a bit more cautious of how other people might be playing strong hands in order to chase these full houses.