I am very much out of shape. Which is weird, because I've gone on an exercise bike at least 5 days a week for at least 20 minutes. Gotta get in shape for some basketball and actually score more this time around than last time!
So I'm going to jot down a few intriguing hands here. Criticism and help appreciated!
This hand was from Sunday. Table to my left was very loose/passive and cally pre and postflop. Table to my right was a couple of decent players and then a MAAG (asian) who kind of had the gambol vibe about him. When he raised, he was committed to betting flop, turn, and river most hands. He also once defended his BTN straddle against my BB pfr with T2o and showed.
At this point, I had a fairly solid image. Nobody to my right wanted to tango.
Folds to MAAG who raises to $12 in MP 7 handed (~$300 effective), I call in CO with KTo. All else fold.
Flop ($27): J
9
4
Villain bets $15, Hero calls $15
Is that fine? I figure I block KJ/JT, not a lot of J9, and with position there are quite a few good turn cards where I can use my image to my advantage.
Turn ($57): 6
Villain checks. This is what I was anticipating. Not a great card, but I could easily value bet KJ/QJ/JT here against this villain. I could realistically have 44 and 99 here as well. So....
Hero bets $35, Villain calls $35
At this point, I'm putting him on a 9x, maybe some sort of draw combination. Don't think he calls with a pair worse than 9x.
River ($127): 7
Villain Checks, Hero....????
Another spot I had been in on Saturday night. After the AA hand I reported about earlier, I had gotten 86o and used my BTN position to push off the weak/tight table. Flop was 34dd7x. I bet, get one caller. Looks like 30ish black guy with a big old North Carolina jersey on. Seems like he may a regular, hadn't been impressed with his play. Turn is a good card for me, I don't remember. He checks, I take about 5 to 10 seconds to figure out the pot size and bet. Not unreasonable in my book. He says something like "I fold, man you be takin too long" like he owns the damned place. ****ing douchebag.
So what do you do in that instance when I clearly didn't take too long, I don't hollywood, and some tool calls you out like that? You can't wait 10 seconds for me to gather the bet? He seemed so tilted, two hands later he called my raise of his straddle with A4, calls a large bet on 974, and is rewarded with a 4 on the turn.
Another couple of hands I'm trying to figure out are the small pocket pairs in EP. Should we raise them? Should we open limp? I've tried both so far, but one leaves us with 3 or 4 callers in a $40 pot where we need a set or a very dry board. The other leaves us unbalanced. While we're not worried about balance in these games, we don't get that extra way to win and there have been....maybe 4 or 5 players I've played with who would notice something like that and know I have a weak range there.
And when do we get aggressive with bluffing type of hands? I think I misplayed this one. MA Egyptian Guy who I had bluffed OTR earlier (he doesn't know it) pfr to $10 against a limper in BTN. We're ~$230 effective. I call in SB with 87
. Limper calls.
Flop ($32): 9
5
2
Check, Check, Villain bets $15, Hero calls, fold.
Is this a good spot for a check/raise? We have immediate nut outs along with BDFD.
Turn ($62): A
Hero Checks, Villain bets $20. Hero....??????
Would this be a good spot to check/raise? I pretty much only am check/raising here with A5/A9/55 (22 is weaker and I probably xr flop). We now have 12 outs and villain's bet size seems pretty weak. We'd be folding out overpairs and 5x and other high card hands that can double barrel. He had been closer to the bad/aggressive side, but his bets were just too small.
River ($102): K
Do we donk bet here? I think Ax may bet small, but a hand like Kx probably checks down. May call a small donk bet though. And if my turn analysis is right, he probably doesn't have an Ax and is closer to 9x, Kx, TT-QQ and could call a small bet.
I'm going to finish this deucescracked series. Have a good leap day y'all!