NL Cash Games
I'm supposed to be working today, but the machine I'm supposed to be working on went down for emergency maintenance. So I've been playing poker for a couple of hours.
I love it when somebody sits down with an amount like $40.10 because t's almost certainly the last of their money. Today I saw a guy sit down with $16.60 or something, then post $1 under the gun! I guess it doesn't occur to these people to wait another hand instead of posting 6% of their bankroll in the worst position at the table.
These people tend to play poorly and desperately (which is likely either because or the cause of their diminished bankroll), so they're great to have at the table. They call too many raises with weak hands and give their money away slowly most of the time. But sometimes they end up calling a raise with some middle unsuited 2-gapper and then the pot gets re-raised. So they end up putting all their chips in preflop with the J8o because they called the initial raise for 1/5 of their chips.
I also like people who buy in for the minimum because they invariably are unable to make good decisions. If I sucked, I'd probably buy in for the minimum also. You get to actually see the turn and river with every flush and straight draw you flop and you get to see a showdown with top pair/no kicker. It's also fun to just keep putting these people all-in before the flop to see what they eventually call you with. You'd be pretty surprised at the stuff they show up with. Ok, enough about short buyins -- let's move on.
I played 2 $.5/$1 NL 5-handed cash games for a couple of hours and it went pretty well -- I ended up winning about $35. I'm still losing a bunch of money with middle pairs. I keep trying to pull off a squeeze play with something like 99 before the flop and it never works. I also sometimes try to get people to fold what I think are big pairs/TP good kicker. I need to learn that some people are just totally unable to get away from those kinds of hands, no matter how bad things look.
For example, yesterday I was holding QQ and got check-raised on a 456 rainbow flop. It's certainly possible that I have the best hand, but a lot of the time I'm beat. And when I'm not beat, most of the time the other guy will have between 8 and 13 outs. It's quite a bad spot to be in. I could reraise (which would put about 1/2 my remaining chips in), but I'm only going to get action when I'm beat or when my opponent has a decent draw. And if the guy just has one pair and no other draw, it's going to have to be 99-JJ for me to get a call (and probably not there either!) Since I'm either slightly ahead or way behind when I get action, I kind of have to fold here.
Here's the hand of the day, which was one of my last from the session. It was one of the other guy's first few hands at the table.
Table 'Billings': $1-$1 No Limit HE (Real)
Seat 0: mikko25cent ($39 in chips)
Seat 3: knullaMej ($99.90 in chips)
Seat 5: Su1cideKing ($20.70 in chips)
Seat 8: Trey zz ($42.80 in chips) (on the button)
Seat 9: Hero ($168.35 in chips)
*** Blind Bet Round *** :
Dealt to Hero: Kd
Dealt to Hero: 10d
Hero : Post Blind ($0.50)
mikko25cent : Post Blind ($1)
*** Pre-Flop *** :
knullaMej : Fold
Su1cideKing : Fold
Trey zz : Call ($1)
Hero : Call ($0.50)
mikko25cent : Check
*** Flop *** : As 6d 3d
Hero : Bet ($2)
mikko25cent : Call ($2)
Trey zz : Fold
*** Turn *** : [ As 6d 3d ] 4d
Hero : Bet ($4)
mikko25cent : Call ($4)
*** River *** : [ As 6d 3d 4d ] 8s
Hero : Bet ($12)
mikko25cent : Raise ($24)
Hero : Raise ($24)
mikko25cent : Call ($8)
mikko25cent : All In
*** SUMMARY ***
Pot: $81 | Rake: $2
Board: [ As 6d 3d 4d 8s ]
mikko25cent lost $39
knullaMej lost $0
Su1cideKing lost $0
Trey zz lost $1
Hero bet $43, collected $81, net $38 Shows [ Kd 10d ] (a flush, King high)
God these hand histories suck -- they don't even say what the other guy had. He had 25o for the turned gutshot.
I also had a funny one were I won a $170 pot with A-high. It happened like this. The button raised to $3.50. I called in the BB with Ad2d. The flop came 4d6c7d, I check, button bets $4, I make it $14, he calls. Turn comes Js, I bet $25, he moves in for about $50 more. I called and beat his KdTd unimproved.
I also played some 5-Draw and saw yet another totally baffling play. The button limped, SB and BB complete. SB and BB both draw 3, button draws 1. Both blinds check, button checks behind with a 7-HIGH STRAIGHT! He checked with a complete hand behind 2 guys who drew 3 cards each! If you limp on the button with the ole' 4567 (let's give him the benefit of the doubt and give him the best draw he could've had), don't you have to bet when you get there? Especially when both blinds drew 3?
I then watched the same guy limp UTG 4 times in a row with either 22 or 44 and make trips every time. Keep it up buddy!
I love it when somebody sits down with an amount like $40.10 because t's almost certainly the last of their money. Today I saw a guy sit down with $16.60 or something, then post $1 under the gun! I guess it doesn't occur to these people to wait another hand instead of posting 6% of their bankroll in the worst position at the table.
These people tend to play poorly and desperately (which is likely either because or the cause of their diminished bankroll), so they're great to have at the table. They call too many raises with weak hands and give their money away slowly most of the time. But sometimes they end up calling a raise with some middle unsuited 2-gapper and then the pot gets re-raised. So they end up putting all their chips in preflop with the J8o because they called the initial raise for 1/5 of their chips.
I also like people who buy in for the minimum because they invariably are unable to make good decisions. If I sucked, I'd probably buy in for the minimum also. You get to actually see the turn and river with every flush and straight draw you flop and you get to see a showdown with top pair/no kicker. It's also fun to just keep putting these people all-in before the flop to see what they eventually call you with. You'd be pretty surprised at the stuff they show up with. Ok, enough about short buyins -- let's move on.
I played 2 $.5/$1 NL 5-handed cash games for a couple of hours and it went pretty well -- I ended up winning about $35. I'm still losing a bunch of money with middle pairs. I keep trying to pull off a squeeze play with something like 99 before the flop and it never works. I also sometimes try to get people to fold what I think are big pairs/TP good kicker. I need to learn that some people are just totally unable to get away from those kinds of hands, no matter how bad things look.
For example, yesterday I was holding QQ and got check-raised on a 456 rainbow flop. It's certainly possible that I have the best hand, but a lot of the time I'm beat. And when I'm not beat, most of the time the other guy will have between 8 and 13 outs. It's quite a bad spot to be in. I could reraise (which would put about 1/2 my remaining chips in), but I'm only going to get action when I'm beat or when my opponent has a decent draw. And if the guy just has one pair and no other draw, it's going to have to be 99-JJ for me to get a call (and probably not there either!) Since I'm either slightly ahead or way behind when I get action, I kind of have to fold here.
Here's the hand of the day, which was one of my last from the session. It was one of the other guy's first few hands at the table.
Table 'Billings': $1-$1 No Limit HE (Real)
Seat 0: mikko25cent ($39 in chips)
Seat 3: knullaMej ($99.90 in chips)
Seat 5: Su1cideKing ($20.70 in chips)
Seat 8: Trey zz ($42.80 in chips) (on the button)
Seat 9: Hero ($168.35 in chips)
*** Blind Bet Round *** :
Dealt to Hero: Kd
Dealt to Hero: 10d
Hero : Post Blind ($0.50)
mikko25cent : Post Blind ($1)
*** Pre-Flop *** :
knullaMej : Fold
Su1cideKing : Fold
Trey zz : Call ($1)
Hero : Call ($0.50)
mikko25cent : Check
*** Flop *** : As 6d 3d
Hero : Bet ($2)
mikko25cent : Call ($2)
Trey zz : Fold
*** Turn *** : [ As 6d 3d ] 4d
Hero : Bet ($4)
mikko25cent : Call ($4)
*** River *** : [ As 6d 3d 4d ] 8s
Hero : Bet ($12)
mikko25cent : Raise ($24)
Hero : Raise ($24)
mikko25cent : Call ($8)
mikko25cent : All In
*** SUMMARY ***
Pot: $81 | Rake: $2
Board: [ As 6d 3d 4d 8s ]
mikko25cent lost $39
knullaMej lost $0
Su1cideKing lost $0
Trey zz lost $1
Hero bet $43, collected $81, net $38 Shows [ Kd 10d ] (a flush, King high)
God these hand histories suck -- they don't even say what the other guy had. He had 25o for the turned gutshot.
I also had a funny one were I won a $170 pot with A-high. It happened like this. The button raised to $3.50. I called in the BB with Ad2d. The flop came 4d6c7d, I check, button bets $4, I make it $14, he calls. Turn comes Js, I bet $25, he moves in for about $50 more. I called and beat his KdTd unimproved.
I also played some 5-Draw and saw yet another totally baffling play. The button limped, SB and BB complete. SB and BB both draw 3, button draws 1. Both blinds check, button checks behind with a 7-HIGH STRAIGHT! He checked with a complete hand behind 2 guys who drew 3 cards each! If you limp on the button with the ole' 4567 (let's give him the benefit of the doubt and give him the best draw he could've had), don't you have to bet when you get there? Especially when both blinds drew 3?
I then watched the same guy limp UTG 4 times in a row with either 22 or 44 and make trips every time. Keep it up buddy!
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