Ouch. Also, re the last two sentences, couldn't agree more. gl;glgglglg.l

Spreading The Love

Finally mentally stable enough to talk through some hands from this weekend. I think some are standard, others maybe not so much.

5/T MGMNH

We sit down, and our first hand First hand we open T T from MP2 to 35. MP3,HJ, CO, SB, BB call. The Flop comes 853 and the blinds heck to us. We wager 130, and it folds all the way to the Bb, a loose rec, who calls. The turn is the 7 and he checks it to us. This time we wager 175, and he snap makes it 600. We fold. Probably ok to check and see a river most of the time here.

Next up, we pick up AA and see a raise from UTG to 35. The SB playing 90/0 calls and we make it 145 from the BB. Both players call. The flop comes T42 and we continue for 160. The original raiser calls and SB folds. The turn is the 9 and we fire again, for 410. He thinks for 30 seconds and calls. The river is the Q and we decide to fire 575. He tank/calls, making me feel pretty good. We roll over the bullets and he rolls over QJ.

Next up, we raise UTG + 1 to 35 with A A. There’s a call, and A tight middle aged reg makes it 200. We 4bet to 610, there’s a fold and then villain jams for 2140. We call and the board runs out 5 red cards. V snap rolls over AT but the board of K K 8 62 luckily had 2 hearts and 3 diamonds. And we scoop.

Just about back to even when we pick up QT OTB and call a 30 HJ open. The SB and BB both recs also come along. The flop comes AK2 and it checks through. The turn is the J and the SB leads for 125. We make it 500 to go after BB and opener fold, and then SB snap ships 1150 total. We call, only to watch him catch the 4 outer OTR J. KJ is good.

The final dagger comes when there’s a straddle to 25 and we open the CO 6 handed with AK. A rec in the SB calls and the BB who has just moved over from the MM makes it 280. We call, and so does the SB. The flop is AT3 and BB leads for 300. We call, and SB rec jams for 850 total. BB asks for a count and calls. We think about it for awhile and jam 2400 total. BB who covers snaps it off and has the final combo of AA, seeing the biggest pot of our life go the other way, basically drawing dead.

It’s a sobering feeling, but I don’t feeel too bad as I mentioned.

gl on the tables all :-)


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h1 yeah xb the turn when we have the Ts

h2 bigger pre esp with SB in the pot and bigger on the flop. pretty gross run out tbh. I think I like betting the turn and x/f this river - a lot gets there.

h3 std

h4 I fold pre; unlucky as played obv

h5 this one is tough but overall I think it is okay. BB should have AK most of the time and getting him off a chop is great. Obv sucks when we run into the couple of combos we lose to though

Gross last hand. :s

H2: lol. Why are you betting so small on the flop ? This isn't the spot to do it with.

H4: is a 3b or fold pre unless there's someone special in the blinds

H5: flop is a big overplay. I don't see any merit in shoving considering you will never force him off a chop after he puts ~1100 in the middle. It's still a gross spot when you flat flop and he donk jams turn. but 2 of the main takeaways here is that 1. His 850 flat is extremely strong 2. If he was going to try and push off a chop he would have done it by jamming over the 850.

I still think it's a really tough spot. I mean flopping tptk in a 3b pot ~130bbs deep is generally the nuts. Just saying it's important to play every street well

Relief:

Back at it after a rough last weekend. Felt good to get back in the 2/5 streets and get in the action. It was the most uneventful 9 hour session I’ve ever had. Only truly played one hand of note where I was somewhat stumped. Still think I made the incorrect decision in the end.

One limp from UTG, hero makes it 30 to go with A A from HJ. CO, SB call.

Flop: (97) KQ2

SB check, Hero 50, CO fold, SB 125, Hero call

Turn (347) 4

SB jams 292
Hero?

Villain has been playing on the tighter side. Wouldn’t say nutty, but rarely if ever have I seen him get too out of line today, and in the past.

Anyway, was able to pick up close to 100bb which is a nice way to begin a little recovery. Still waiting for Resorts World Catskills Poker room to open in early March, which should be a fun new venue to visit. Will be heading there the first weekend it opens.

gl all




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Thanks for the analysis. Good things to look at going forward


Yeah it is what it is

Agree re 2 & 5. good things to look at and need to be better

Not folding AA there

I guess it depends how many combos of semibluffs vs 2p+. I think we have to make the decision OTF. As played we are committed OTT call.

My first instinct with AA hand is that’s an easy call. Given its vs SB range I’d expect fewer nutted hands. Best hand he had there imo is bottom set. Next best hand is KQ. You also don’t block A high flush draws/combo draws. Nothing in live or poker in general is absolute, because everyone plays differently. That spot easy call though as played.

Need to make the decision on the flop. Almost always going with it on that texture.

Thanks gents. Had the feeling that was the consensus. Seems like I’m still a bit rattled and not back to my a game. I think normally that’s an easy snap for me as well.

Anyways, we’ll never know cause I folded.

Road To Recovery

Back in action today at at Sun. There was TONS of action today for some reason. Everyone knows there are those days that you just faint explain where it seems like the refs are out in full force. Put in a marathon 14 hour session and managed to take home ~150 bb’s.

In our first interesting hand we open QT UTG 7 handed to 20. CO, SB, BB call and we go to a flop 4 way of Q74. The SB checks, and the BB (99/5 whale absolutely donating) bets 15. We make it 60, and the CO & SB fold. BB pumps it back to 120, and we call. The turn is the 8. He checks, and we check it back. The river is the beautiful 9 bringing in our backdoor flush, and this time he leads for 200. We jam for ~500 total, and he calls and mucks.

Next hand, about 4 people left at the same time and one person was away, so we play a hand 4 handed where we straddle, and look down at AK. BTN, BB limp and we pop it to 50. They both call and we go to a flop of K97. After the BB checks, we make it 60. The BTN makes the call, and the bb folds. The turn is the 2 completing the rainbow and we wager 165. BTN snap jams, and being as loose passive as this guy was, we make the fold. FWIW, after the hand he told me he had a set, and said “I figure if you had AK you pay me off”

Next up, we have a HJ limp, and we look down at K5 OTB, and make it 25. I play with the limper a lot and he way over folds after limping, so there’s more dead money to attack here.The SB, the BB calls and the limper folds. The flop comes KJ9 and both players check to us. We check, and see a 5 on the turn. The SB leads for 35, the BB folds and we raise to 90. He thinks for a while and calls. The river is the 8 and this time he heads for 140. We snap it off and immediately says “Good call I have a jack”.

The hand before the hand of the night, we see a limp in MP and we overlimp A8 OTB, and SB joins, BB checks. We go to a flop of AQ3. The SB leads for 15, limper calls, and we call as well. The turn is the 5 and this time the SB wagers 80. Limper folds, we call and see the 4. On the river. He checks, and we go for a slight overbet of 300. He goes deep into the tank, checks his cards about 5 more times, and finally tosses in the call, and we take it down.

The hand of the day comes when we see two limps in MP, and we raise 88 to 30 form the HJ. This ends up going 5 way to a flop of 875. SB, and the two limp/callers check to us and we toss in one black chip. the BTN calls and the SB min raises to 200. Two folds back to us and we make it 550. BTN thinks for (literally 3 minutes) and folds. SB jams for 620 total, and we call. Runout is 3 Q and SB shows the good old 64o. Best part is that BTN (who covered me) FOLDED 64... would have had my whole stack. Guess we gotta find out how to run better.

Pretty excited to be checking out the new resorts world Catskills poker room which is opening up tomorrow. We’ll be headed there next weekend.

Gl on the tables :-)




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Got in an unexpected 4 hour session late last night due to an impulsive decision to make the drive. Only played one hand of note where I think I made a mistake.

3 limps to us OTB with 2 2. We overlimp, and SB calls. BB checks.

Flop Q 2 8

UTG limper (550) leads 20, MP limper (520) (was just stacked two hands ago in a bad beat - visibly tilted) calls, we call OTB.

Turn (85) K

UTG lead 25
MP call
We make it 100
Utg fold
MP call

River (310) 4

MP jam 420

Hero?



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Does your gf always come with you on the weekend trips to casinos? What does she do while you're grinding? Just curious cuz I've suggested to my gf she come with me when I hit up casinos on weekends but she's not a big gambler at all

Not always, I’d say roughly about 25-30 percent of the time she will. She also enjoys playing poker. But often on the Big trips (Florida, Vegas, etc) we’ll do a lot of touristy stuff in the day/food etc fun stuff and then play at night.

tough spot, for value I'd expect 109dd, J10dd, J9dd in that order and then maybe over value 2p or just missed another draw and completely bluffed

not sure what to do, very game dynamic dependent

Raise OTF, board is pretty dry so maybe slowplaying isn't that bad but we could miss value from Qx if a scare card rolls off. Turn raise is good. As played that's a massive river bet, I would just sigh fold given he could easily show up with backdoor flush.

Pretty easy fold right?

I expect all 2p+ to raise the original raiser on the turn... he was given a second opportunity to raise/gii when you opened the betting back up... but he didn't. So that means otr he would have to be floating turn with Ad with the intention of bluff shoving all diamond rivers... or turning Kx into a bluff. Both are very unlikely at 2/5.

Tbh I think you're better off raising the flop. It's bad from a theory/ balance pov but at 2/5 or lower i don't think you need to worry about protecting your ranges. Their ranges are also weighted towards suited connectors, suited gappers and bigger pps... meaning you're only going to get real action from those hands if they bink.

Yeah. Made the call. Looking back it’s a big mistake

Could raise flop. Seems like not the beat board to though. Should have folded river.


Agreed. Call was big mistake OTR

Got the chance to make it out to the brand new Resorts World Catskills. Poker room opened Monday. I saw 5/T running 3 or 4 times during this week, but unfortunately it didn’t run today. So we hopped into the regular scheduled programming, 2/5.



In our first interesting hand we see two limps to us in the CO with A Q to 30. The blinds fold and the limpers call. We go to a flop of Q J 2. Both players check to us and we decide to check it back. The turn is the 6 and the MP limper checks. The HJ limper bets 60 and we call. The other limper folds, and we go to the 9 on the river. V leads again, this time for 145, and we snap it off. We’re good against A9dd.

Next up, we pick up A K OTB and make it 25 to go over two limpers. The BB and limpers call. We go to a flop of KQ 4. We see three checks to us and we bet 75. The BB calls and the limpers fold. The turn comes the J and the BB checks again. We bet 110 and he calls. The river is the J and the BB checks and we decide to go very small on the river, 135. BB ends up tank folding and we take it down.

End up taking a small break and hitting the bar/grille downstairs. Food was very good.



We get back to the table to play one last lol hand.

There’s one limp, we limp the CO with K 2. The BTN and SB come along and we go 5 way to a flop of Q 8 8. Three checks to us and we bet 20. The BTN calls and the other three fold. The turn is the 3 and we bet 60. The BTN calls and we see the 4 on the river. We bet 150, and v goes deep into the tank. It feels like he’s going to make the call, but he ends up doing the old double check the cards and muck. He shows the 8 and our heart comes back into out chest. We take it down.

All in all a great trip, and a nice venue. Dealers will need a lot of work in the coming months. But some patience is definitely needed at this time. Excited to come back.





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Haha wtf he folded 8h there... what did villain have in that other hand where you flopped a set? Also I dislike raising flop on that particular board.

Yeah lol, I was like well uhhhhhh ok!

For the hand from last post, A 6

a6dd is a random one; but I would expect to see Qxdd, JTdd, J9dd, T9dd almost always here. really tough to fold sets but when they donk jam pot+ after you raised the previous street they almost always have it.

nice work overall though - can't believe someone folded an 8 to you there lol

Agreed I think calling that jam OTR was a big mistake in hindsight. Can’t win if you fold right

K2 hand. Obv should never be involved. But the result is