Check Raising Short Stacks

In this hand I wanted to crai the shorty on the flop but I got a timing tell when he insta bet reasonably big. I thought he would fire again so I just flat. I decided to crai the turn and the perfect card fell.

Poker Stars $1/$2 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players

BB: $263.63
Hero (UTG): $200.00
UTG+1: $113.94
UTG+2: $90.38
MP1: $85.10
MP2: $210.55
CO: $82.32
BTN: $80.28
SB: $216.93

Pre Flop: ($3.00) Hero is UTG with A J
Hero raises to $6, 1 fold, UTG+2 calls $6, 6 folds

Flop: ($15.00) J 6 3 (2 players)
Hero checks, UTG+2 bets $12, Hero calls $12

Turn: ($39.00) A (2 players)
Hero checks, UTG+2 bets $14, Hero raises to $79, UTG+2 calls $58.38 all in

River: ($183.76) 8 (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $183.76
Hero shows A J (two pair, Aces and Jacks)
UTG+2 mucks T A
Hero wins $180.96
(Rake: $2.80)


I find its often good to let the shorties hang themselves as they will be pot committed on the flop.

Ten K 2 Play - Let The Games Begin

Its been a long time since I had a 5-figure roll. It was probably 2 years ago during my SNE shot.

I have just reached that milestone again and now I am comfortable sitting any levels from NL100 - NL600.

So far I have only sat NL100 and NL200 this year but hopefully I will progress.

The signs are good so far as there seem to be some spewy villains around:

Poker Stars $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players

BTN: $100.00
SB: $356.32
Hero (BB): $330.11
UTG: $60.54
MP: $201.55
CO: $99.00

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is BB with K K
1 fold, MP calls $1, 2 folds, SB raises to $4.50, Hero raises to $14.48, MP calls $13.48, SB calls $9.98

Flop: ($43.44) 8 K 4 (3 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $28.22, MP raises to $71, SB folds, Hero raises to $315.63 all in, MP calls $116.07 all in

Turn: ($417.58) 3 (2 players - 2 are all in)

River: ($417.58) J (2 players - 2 are all in)

Final Pot: $417.58
Hero shows K K (three of a kind, Kings)
MP mucks Q Q
Hero wins $414.78
(Rake: $2.80)

Beauty

Sometimes it just falls into your lap

Poker Stars $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players

BTN: $25.25
SB: $22.85
Hero (BB): $50.75
UTG: $22.94
UTG+1: $66.01
UTG+2: $24.25
MP1: $60.46
MP2: $44.41
CO: $27.36

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is BB with 8 8
3 folds, MP1 raises to $1.50, 1 fold, CO calls $1.50, 2 folds, Hero calls $1

Flop: ($4.75) Q 8 8 (3 players)
Hero checks, MP1 bets $3.50, CO raises to $7, Hero calls $7, MP1 raises to $32.50, CO calls $18.86 all in, Hero raises to $49.25 all in, MP1 calls $16.75

Turn: ($129.11) 4 (3 players - 2 are all in)

River: ($129.11) 2 (3 players - 2 are all in)

Final Pot: $129.11
Hero shows 8 8 (four of a kind, Eights)
MP1 mucks Q A
CO mucks A Q
Hero wins $46.78
Hero wins $79.83
(Rake: $2.50)

Playing Poker Blind - HUDless For 2 Days

Feb has got off to a pretty bad start on days 1 n 2. My HEM1 had a partial crash and I was only able to play without my HUD and hand import.

This may not sound that bad but when you start playing you soon realise how many tough spots arise that urgently require a HUD.

The toughest spot was when I squeezed on the button with AKo and the overcaller re-popped pretty big. This is a spot where I like to know how loose a player he is before I decide what to do. I decided to jam with no stats available and he showed AA. If he was a nit I would have folded my AKo vs if he was a lag, fish or whale I would snap jam. 

It took ages to sort out my issues but I am back up n running and looking forward to hitting the tables again. While Holdem Manager support is pretty good in terms of quality there response times can be very slow so it took around 2 days and 6 or 7 emails to sort out.

Nice to be back :)

Graphs playing HUDless:

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bb:

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January 2013 Review

It was going to be pretty hard to top last month's record takings and considering that I didn't want to move up too much till Feb it was very unlikely.

I didn't beat it but had a shot with a very good start after having most of week 1 off. It slowed down at the end and I cruised home to a decent start.

The most interesting part of Jan was my foray into 6-max and starting out quite high at NL100 ZOOM. I somehow managed to beat it for 10.37bb/100 over 15k hands which is a very small sample. I won't read too much into it as I always like 300k+ samples to get a good idea of winrate.

The final numbers for January are as follows:

159,759 Hands Played

18,985 VPPs

+$3,481 (Cash Game Winnings)
+$1,600 (FPP Cash Bonus)
+$200 (Stellar Rewards)
-$10 (Tourney Losses)

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+$5,271 (Total Month)

bb:

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I splashed a little money in Omaha and did really badly as usual. Don't think I will touch it in Feb. I do however hope to kick off some live as well as a few higher shots online.

GL in Feb..!!