This Week's Home Game
I played my regular home game tonight. We only got 5 players so we decided to do a shootout. We also decided to randomly select a game out of {NL Holdem, NL Omaha H/L, H.O.R.S.E., H.O.S.E., NL Crazy Pineapple H/L}. We put 5 cards down, shuffled them, and ended up picking the card that corresponds to NL Holdem. So much for variety!
I ended up picking up some hands early and keeping the chip lead almost the whole time. My big hands were the following:
Blinds 300/600, 5 handed. CO raises to 1225, I call on the button with 88, SB calls, BB calls. Flop comes 3h8h9d. All check to me, I bet 3500. SB check-raises to 7500, all fold, I move in covering his ~9K. He calls with As9s, and misses his runners. This was sort of a weird play on his part. He's certainly capable of folding in this spot, but for some reason he insta-called. That's sort of the problem with a hand like that. Given the action on the flop, he's likely to be either a small favorite or a huge dog. He also raised enough to let himself get away from it but didn't. I don't understand.
In another one at the 400/800 level, I limp behind the CO with Kc7c and end up seeing the AA2 flop 4-handed. All check to me, I bet 1500. SB calls, all fold. Turn comes K, we both check. River comes an offsuit 6, the other check calls 3K with 65o and loses. I had absolutely no idea what this guy was doing. He normally plays fairly well, but obviously not here. He probably wanted to check-raise the turn as a bluff, but couldn't when I checked behind. Then he actually made something on the river so he couldn't bluff there. I really can't think of any other reason he would call.
Then at the 1K/2K level, we were 4 handed. I moved in UTG for about 80K (150K in play, next guy had about 35K) with JJ. Button folds, SB calls for about 18K with 99, BB calls for the 35K with Kd7d. The guy with Kd7d plays an extremely weird style. He plays a ton of pots, rarely fold any kind of hand, but likes to bet and bluff a lot when he gets the chance. He seems to do well for himself when we're deep-stacked, but he always gets killed when the blinds get higher. Just like tonight I guess.
I end up winning this pot and going into heads up with a 130K to 20K lead. We traded small amount for a few hands, then I ended polishing off the other guy when he jammed from the button with QJ and I call when when I see the prettiest card in the deck (the As). The other one happended to be the 7s, and it won unimproved.
That's all the poker I've played in the last week or so. I've been incredibly busy working on a homework assignment and a take-home final for the hardest class I've ever taken. My schedule should be a little better starting around next week -- hopefully I can play/write some more.
Good luck to all!
I ended up picking up some hands early and keeping the chip lead almost the whole time. My big hands were the following:
Blinds 300/600, 5 handed. CO raises to 1225, I call on the button with 88, SB calls, BB calls. Flop comes 3h8h9d. All check to me, I bet 3500. SB check-raises to 7500, all fold, I move in covering his ~9K. He calls with As9s, and misses his runners. This was sort of a weird play on his part. He's certainly capable of folding in this spot, but for some reason he insta-called. That's sort of the problem with a hand like that. Given the action on the flop, he's likely to be either a small favorite or a huge dog. He also raised enough to let himself get away from it but didn't. I don't understand.
In another one at the 400/800 level, I limp behind the CO with Kc7c and end up seeing the AA2 flop 4-handed. All check to me, I bet 1500. SB calls, all fold. Turn comes K, we both check. River comes an offsuit 6, the other check calls 3K with 65o and loses. I had absolutely no idea what this guy was doing. He normally plays fairly well, but obviously not here. He probably wanted to check-raise the turn as a bluff, but couldn't when I checked behind. Then he actually made something on the river so he couldn't bluff there. I really can't think of any other reason he would call.
Then at the 1K/2K level, we were 4 handed. I moved in UTG for about 80K (150K in play, next guy had about 35K) with JJ. Button folds, SB calls for about 18K with 99, BB calls for the 35K with Kd7d. The guy with Kd7d plays an extremely weird style. He plays a ton of pots, rarely fold any kind of hand, but likes to bet and bluff a lot when he gets the chance. He seems to do well for himself when we're deep-stacked, but he always gets killed when the blinds get higher. Just like tonight I guess.
I end up winning this pot and going into heads up with a 130K to 20K lead. We traded small amount for a few hands, then I ended polishing off the other guy when he jammed from the button with QJ and I call when when I see the prettiest card in the deck (the As). The other one happended to be the 7s, and it won unimproved.
That's all the poker I've played in the last week or so. I've been incredibly busy working on a homework assignment and a take-home final for the hardest class I've ever taken. My schedule should be a little better starting around next week -- hopefully I can play/write some more.
Good luck to all!
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