O-Poker

I never really got anything going in the Skillz tourney last night. I gave away about half of my stack in the Omaha rotation when I turned the nut straight and the river paired the board and had to fold a double suited KK hand in the Omaha round when there was a raise and a re-raise before it got to me (both guys had AA+connectors). I really never got any other playable hand in the PLHE or the PLO rounds and it seemed like there was always a raise before it got to me. A re-raise would have committed my stack. I think that I was the short stack from about 60 players until I busted out in the low 40s.

I was playing a few cash games and searched for Fuel to see if there was a blogger cash game going on. There wasn't, but I got on the waiting list for his 10 handed 5/10 nl cash game while playing a few 2/4 6 max and gambling at a 5/10 cap game.

I lost a lot of chips the second hand after getting seated directly to Fuel's right at one of the 5/10nl 10 player tables. I was dealt KK in the SB and decided to slow play it against a mid position raiser. The flop brought an Ace. I check raised the original raiser to find out if he had an Ace and hopefully end the hand right there. He thought a little bit and called the c/r. Normally, I would just shut down but I felt like he would lay down a weak ace if I lead on the blank turn. No such luck, he shoved and I folded.

Several hands later a fun hand came up. The button had literally raised every time he was otb and about 75% of the time he was in the cutoff. I had folded every time he raised. Most of the time he was a short stack with somewhere between $300 and $400, so it was a no brainer to fold to his pf raises without a hand. The guy was clearly "the spot" at the table. He managed to build his stack up thanks to getting AA vs KK all-in preflop.

After a few orbits of letting him steal the blinds, I decided that if it folded to him otb and he raised that I was going to 3 bet him with atc. Well, the scenario happened and my 95o qualified as atc. I had two reasons to 3 bet him from the BB - to see how he would re-act and to set him up for a later big hand.

Full Tilt Poker $5/$10 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

SB: $960.00
Hero (BB): $1000.00
UTG: $3516.00
UTG+1: $4568.00
UTG+2: $1015.00
MP1: $1512.00
MP2: $572.50
CO: $1000.00
BTN: $1301.00

Pre Flop: Hero is BB with 9 5 - Horrible hand, but still decide to go ahead with my original preflop plan
6 folds - Fairly tight table - maybe I am just too used to playing 6 max
BTN raises to $30 - Like Clockwork
1 fold
Hero raises to $110 - 3 bet him with atc to see if he folds or how he plays the hand
BTN calls $80 - I plan to lead most flops since he is probably 4 betting 1010+,AQ+

Flop: ($225.00) 3 7 6 (2 players)
Hero bets $175 - Actually, a pretty decent flop. I figure that I probably have at least 6 outs (double gutshot) and maybe as many as 14 outs (against two non-diamond overs). Combine that with him possibly folding and I think leading out here was a no brainer.
BTN calls $175 - Not good, but not horribly bad. I think that he would probably make a re-raise here with a flush or straight draw, an overpair, or a pair and an overcard.

Turn: ($575.00) 4 (2 players) - Bingo
Hero checks - I really felt like checking would look like I raised pf, c-bet, and finally shut down. I planned to c/r him big.
BTN checks - Uggggh. I guess I read that wrong, but based on his hand and my check on the turn, I really don't know why he didn't bet behind there.

River: ($575.00) J (2 players)
Hero bets $715 all in - Since Fuel was at the table, I decided to go with the old "Overbet for Value" play and shoved with the 2nd nuts. I felt like (against a weak player) it might make my hand look like a missed draw or air. He is folding to any size bet if he missed and there is a very good chance that he is calling with 1 pair/2 pair type hands. I think this player would be just as likely call a $400-$450 bet as he would to call an all-in bet.

BTN calls $715 - He pretty much insta-called.

Final Pot: $2005.00
Hero shows 9s 5c (a straight, Seven high)
BTN mucks Jd Td - I really hate how he played this - way too passively. Calling the 3 bet preflop with J10s was probably marginal. Not raising the turn was horrible, especially if he felt like he had a flush draw with two live overs. He obviously must have since he insta-called on the river with top pair 10 kicker.
Hero wins $2002.00
(Rake: $3.00)

There other great thing about this hand is that I went to showdown with a very weak preflop hand and the whole table got to see that. I decided to play extremely tight after that and hope that my image would pay dividends the next time that I was dealt a big hand.

I am eagerly awaiting being called a donkey now. :) The preflop play of the hand was definitely -EV short term, but was long term +EV in my mind. If I completely missed the flop, I could lead and shut down if he called or raised.

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Decision with AA

Full Tilt Poker $5/$10 No Limit Hold'em - 8 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

MP2: $940.00
Hero (CO): $1751.00
BTN: $375.00
SB: $1000.00
BB: $1654.00
UTG: $1005.50
UTG+1: $1015.00
MP1: $301.00

Pre Flop: Hero is CO with A A
4 folds
Hero raises to $35
1 fold
SB calls $30
1 fold

Flop: ($80.00) 3 J K (2 players)
SB checks
Hero bets $55
SB raises to $165 - I have a very loose table image and have folded to a couple of flop check raises. The SB is a solid player, probably not making this bet with air. My guess is something like a flush draw, pair and flush draw, AK, 2 pair, or possible Kxo.
Hero raises to $450 - OK, let's gamble. I bet enough to commit myself. Hopefully, I am racing at worst. I might have just called behind if I had a tighter table image.
SB raises to $965 all in
Hero calls $515

Turn: ($2010.00) A - I liked that card. It gave him less outs. I'm not sure if we would have still gotten all the money in on the turn if I had just flat called the flop raise - probably still would have.
River: ($2010.00) 8

Final Pot: $2010.00
Hero shows Ad Ah (three of a kind, Aces)
SB shows Kc Qc (a pair of Kings) - Whew I dodged some bullets there. It turned out that we were almost exactly 50/50 on the flop. I don't mind getting in there as a 50/50 for 100BB, especially since there is alread $190 in the pot.
Hero wins $2007.00
(Rake: $3.00)

Anyone think that I should have played this hand differently? Possibly just call the flop and try to get it all-in on the turn?