Had some really good 50/50 action going the other night. Was leaving early though because I've catched some cold and had a slight fever so didn't feel like I could focus properly. Ended up +9k in 3h though which was nice! Hopefully we'll get a similar game next thursday and hopefully I feel better then!
A few hands:
UTG is a recriational spewy guy. I'd considre him to be good value but he's also rich and can pull some moves and make your life quite misserable.
50/50
Pre:
UTG limps 50, I raise 250 w/ A
Q
from CO, BB calls, UTG calls.
Flop (800) J
4
2
BB checks, UTG checks, I bet 500, BB folds, UTG calls
Turn (1800) A
UTG leads for 1000, I call
River (3800) 7
He bets 2100, I call
- Pretty standard but wasn't playing many big pots... Can't really raise any street and he's repping a bluff basically, so quite standard to be bluffcatching.
50/50
Pre
UTG raise 300, UTG+1 calls, I call A
Q
OTB, blinds fold
Flop: (1000) A
A
4
UTG checks, UTG+1 checks, I bet 550, UTG+1 calls
Turn: (2100) J
He checks, I bet 1300, he makes it 3000, I call
River: (8100) 6
He checks, I shove for 4900, he tank folds.
- This villain is also a "high stake" recreational. He loves to bomb and put people under a lot of pressure. Not afraid to put in 200bb in a 50/50 game and capable of pulling complete random bluffs.
He told me he was really close to hero call me here. Sure, I might play KT/KQdd like this up until river but I'm probably rarely ever shoving against him in this spot. In reality I'm gonna be very value heavy here but it's good that I can give out the illusion that I'm not just by being agressive in other spots were it's really profitable!
25/25
Pre
Two limps and BTN who is a young reg although I think he's quite bad and spewy makes a large raise to 275, I call in sb w/J
J
, fish calls as EP limper.
Flop (875) A
J
8
I check, limper check, BTN bets 500, I call and the fish folds.
- The fish is short and he's only got about 1300. I was thinking about leading here on this flop to get him to call or ship his last money and then hopefully the reg has an A or better. I took a different line though and let the reg put in a c-bet and hoped the fish had something and just decided to go with it. I like leading better in retrospect. The reg isn't as likely to c-bet here even if the texture is good when there is a short fish in the hand. I also believe that the fish will get it in much wider when I lead here as opposed to a c-bet + a call. Then I just have to hope that the reg has AK or something and gets it in. I think leading would extract the most amount of money from both players tbh.
Turn (1875) 9
I lead for 1100, reg thinks for a bit and goes all in for 3100, I snap it off.
River (8075) Q
Villain has A
T
for a rivered straight...
- Kind of a weird hand. Think leading flop is the ideal line. As played I don't mind leading turn instead. It looks kind of fishy and he might put me on a Jxss or KQss type of hand. Probably that's what he did and just hoped to get it in good here, because otherwise it's a pretty bad shove if he's never ahead, since he shouldn't expect much, if any FE.
Also have to say I think ATs is a terrible hand to make some sort of massive raise with pre in this spot. I think it's fine to be unbalanced here sometimes to get action from bad weak fish when you have value, but AT basically makes most worse Ax hands to fold and better to call... You might get action from JTs from the fish but thats about it...