I've decided to create a thread to document my progression through and general thoughts on poker. I started out playing $5 sit and go's with my roommate a few years ago and have been playing the game ever since. I started out playing nlh, but pretty quickly transitioned to plo after watching some hands online - I find the game much more strategically interesting and consequently more enjoyable.
I currently play micro stakes online (ignition) although I occasionally play low to mid stakes live (usually nlh, plo rarely runs where I live) when I get the chance. The main purpose of this thread is to post some interesting hand histories where I feel like I may be making a mistake or just interesting spots in general. The main thing I want to get out of poker longterm is to beat low-mid stakes online and feel good about playing in high stakes live games.
Anyway here are few hands I recently played:
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I open KK97ddhh, SB and BB call. Flop QT3ddh. X/x/b. 1 call. QT3ddhJh. X I pot. Bb calls leaving .4 spr. River 6o. He donk jams AKT7(no suits).
I snapped river - thinking my hand was good here like 80%+ of the time. He should be check jamming his nuts ott at this stack depth. It takes a special kind of fish to not do this. For some reason hands like these tilt me the most actually. If V checkjams his nuts like he's supposed to and I lose, I don't really care, but for some reason losing it in this fashion is very frustrating.
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co (50bb)
btn (100bb)
hero: bb (covers).
CO opens to 2bb. btn calls. sb folds. hero 3! AA65hhss. 2 calls.
Flop JJ9r. i cbet 1/3 pot. 2 calls. Turn JJ9Jr. checks thru. River 8o. x. co bets 40% pot (leaving chips behind). btn snaps. hero...?
I end up calling CO shows. QQT. btn shows KKT
I considered raising river as when the btn (big fish) snap calls his hand should be completely dead (if he were to trap quads he'd likely micro tank at the minimum) so by raising i generate a dry side and I can freeroll the btn into stationing twice. However, I still need to worry about the CO and since he has chips behind my raise still needs to have >50% equity vs his range which i'm not sure it has (tho if he's valuing QQxx it might LOL). I've seen bad players overvalue overpairs on these kind of textures so I'm not that surprised to see this kind of action. If CO didnt have anything behind i believe jamming is higher ev than flatting since the btn is almost always dead. That said, vs a competent opponent i cant really do this as I can't be bluffing (since my hand is going to showdown vs CO).
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Also been trying to setup a database manager for ignition (mac) let me know if you guys have some suggestions - I'm currently trying to get FPDB to work.
Last edited by Steven4294; 02-07-2018 at 08:12 PM.
utg+1 limps. co limps. i limp btn (should I be raising this? the idea behind my limp was to induce multiway and cooler with nut suit and setvalue). sb&bb call. 5 way to flop.
T87hhs. checks to utg+1 who leads small. I raise pot. sb&bb both cold call (lol..) utg+1 calls as well. 4way to Turn 3s. checks to me. I pot. sb&bb call again. utg+1 folds getting 11:1. River T87hhs3sAo. checks to me I jam. for .3 spr. 2 snaps. sb has JTT7ss. and bb had 9964ss.
i think bb has a pretty easy flop fold. and sb can consider reraising top set w his durable equity multiway (if he jams flop & gets stationed by multiple straights behind he can push equity)
i open AJJ7ds from co. 2 folds. bb defends. Flop JT6r(d). x i pot. call. Turn JT6d2d. x i pot. he calls. river JT6d2dAo. he donk pots. i fold he shows K977r
if i had any idea how wide he was calling turn maybe I should call river. This is pretty standard fold though i believe.
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(V is 73vpip/5pfr/7):
btn min opens. 2 calls. i defend KhQT4 in bb.
Flop A74hhh. checks to btn who bets small. I raise. he calls. Turn Qo. I bet 85% pot he calls. River 6h. I bet 90% pot. He snaps with 52hh33
My play can't be that bad. I dont think i should give up river as some of his sets will snap fold. Any merit to a not sizing up river? If he's never folding a flush to any size, maybe i should just bet an amount to get nonflushes to 'hero' fold
Co opens. I 3! 8764ss. sb&bb cold call. co calls. Flop T64dd. checks to me. SPR ~3. I pot. 1 fold. bb calls with T753dd. 1 fold.
Pre the idea was to iso the CO since he had been opening really wide, but if i'm getting cold called behind 8764ss is just too trashy of a hand to take multiway. As played I think at this spr i just should pot my bottom 2 and a double gutter tho im not sure if there's merit to any other bet sizing to give the illusion of a bet fold
played some 50plo on ignition today. main difference i noticed is that people tend to know how to size bets better. 25plo people make terrible sizing mistakes, for example potting it otr when they have like no bluffs, making Villian's decision very easy.
I cut down on stationing rivers as I think that was a general leak -- but at 50plo people seem to thin value more and size down in spots making it harder to hero fold.
Played a pretty ridiculous PLO 25huplo hand today.
~110bb deep. I open AKK9cc. SB 3bet. I 4b. He calls. Flop Q73cc. He jams. I call.
Villian had Q722r.
In game he probably had like a 30% 3bet so I figured he'd be messing around a bunch but I never put him on the Q722r. He was folding to opens, so it begs the question, what hands was he folding.
I'm wondering vs players like this what sort of hands are better to 4b or just call the 3b with (specifically ~100bb deep) Like KQJTds is obviously ahead of his 3b range in terms of equity, but I think it may make more money as a call since i'll be able to jam over so many flop bets when I bink. Whereas if I have like AKJ2ss I think just 4b for the equity is preferred.
