So my buddy let me play a $5.10 SnG on Lock while I'm at work because he was too tired to play. The fast SnG's aren't really my style, but I was bored so I said sure.

The game was very aggressive. Lots of OOP raises and calls, little consideration for hand value. I stay out of it as I was card dead until I was down to about 20bb. One player in particular seated three to my left was involved in almost every hand, reraising and raising with air, catching cards, and doubling up when he was a huge dog. This particular player had a name like "SeXyKitty69" or something like that and an avatar with boobs. Obviously a guy trying to seem like a fish saing things like "hey boyz!" and "kisses!"

Im in the CO with AJ. I know the BB, miss sexykitty, will be in on this hand and playing ATC. It folds to me and I make it 4BB. Sexy calls. Flop is

542

I check and Sexy overbets the pot and moves all-in. I think he can't have a made hand here cause I'm playing tight and he would want to milk me if he had the flush. I'm thinking hes got air with no club or an A/K. None the less, I'm pot committed here. If I fold, I'm essentially crippled. So I call with reasonable equity against his range. He shows 69 and the board doesn't hit. I double up to
35bb. Maybe a bit spewy here. Could I have played this hand better?

Next hand is KQ on the button. Sexy raises UTG and I call. Flop comes all blanks with no broadway. He checks and I check cause I don't want to face a C/R. Turn is a K and I bet. He raises me all-in and I call. He turns over KQ and we split the pot. I'm a little upset now.

Sexy is down and I have him covered now. Folds to me in MP and I raise with AQo. Sexy reraises all in and I call. He flips over AKo and I'm now down to 8bb.

Last hand down to 5 player and I hold K9 on the button. Sexy raises UTG again and I reraise all in. He calls and shows Q9. Awesome, 70% equity to double up. It may not be over yet. Flop comes Q7X.
Okay so its a race. I'm still in. Board runs dry and I'm out.

Now this sexy person got 3 AK hands, one AQ hand, and dealt KK all in about 8 orbits. I'm not sure if I pegged his range correctly at ATC or not. Maybe he actually was hitting hands. Either way, he played pretty well. I like that kind of maniacal aggression. He kept everyone guessing as to weather or not he had a holding. I also think I played pretty well against him since he was the big stack the majority of the time and I met him with aggression preflop when I had a hand that was a very good favorite over his range. Almost every hand either of us played, the rest of the table got out of the way. So it was essentially us heads up whenever I was involved in the hand.

How do you deal with such super aggression?

Friend's bankroll = ($5.10)

without stack sizes throughout the hand histories and other relevant stacks on the table with specific positions and the like, it's utterly impossible to critique any of your play.

Hand one (AJ hand)seems fine I *guess* - i've made worse calls against lunatics but in all honesty I probably fold

they way to play maniacs: tighten up your range a little, wait for a hand, go with it.

I was behind almost the entire tourney in those hands so I was the effective stack. I posted I was around 20bb in the fist hand (aggro guy had me covered). 35-40bb the second hand (I covered aggro, roughly 25bb), and 8bb the last hand (covered by the aggro).

The first hand I'm committed. I was hoping to get all-in PF.

How are you "pot-committed" in the first hand. You have 16BBs back and he jams into a 9BB pot?

First off, don't use your friend's account, it's against the terms of service.

This is what we call tilt; it's detrimental to your game. Don't get upset, because if you can't handle an occasional bad beat then poker probably isn't the game for you.


It's only one game, and doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. As the saying goes, you can't win 'em all!

Maybe, maybe not. Again, such a small sample. Maybe he's an aggro, maybe he's a nit who got a lot of premium hands in this particular game. Who knows, but it's nigh on impossible to range in such a short time.



Also....

Don't post huge walls of text; as it's an online hand, you should post the actual hand history, just like everyone else does. When you type it up like that you tend to miss important details, such as stack sizes, and you also tend to make huge and blatant errors, such as this from the first hand....

if you're CO and he's BB, how can you check to let him shove when he has to act first?

And how are you essentially crippled with a 16bb stack? That's a typical stack size in SNGs, but of course it makes the decisions a lot closer and the edges a lot smaller, which is why we don't worry about short term results, and look for samples of thousands of games as an indication of our ability.

Also, don't post results of what villain had; you didn't know the actual hand, so giving us this info doesn't help us help you, it just makes you results oriented (which is a pretty bad mindset in poker). For instance, somewhere in the vast world of online poker, AQ v AK for stacks happens literally every second of the day. Don't sweat it. And nor should you sweat losing the K9 to Q9; all you can do is play as well as you can, the rest is up to the cards — you can't control which ones come next.


Look at other threads and spot the vast differences between most of them and what you've posted, then you should probably try again if you want better feedback. GL!

lol

+1 to TT

plus 1 to TT also

Was this turbo? if it was most hands were played terribly -.-. and lol at the AJ hand...