MN_Mime
07-26-2004, 05:28 PM
10-handed 2/4 B&M. Hero is MP3 and getting short-stacked.
Reads:
BB (TAG) - TAG, but occasional holes. On a previous hand in SB, he completed against 5 players with T2o, flop came down T85r, 5 on the turn and J on the river and he chased it to the end despite aggressive bidding on my part (which he won, so either he's a genius, had a good read on me, or is a moron at times).
UTG (CHAMP) - New player ~2 orbits, but apparently home-game CHAMP; complete with overacting and cheap theatrics. Unopposed, he'll just run over the table, but slows down when confronted. Friends with RAW.
UTG + 1 (RAW) - been with us an hour and can't comprehend the betting structure. Bets out middle pair against suited connected flops and family pots. He's down nearly a rack. New behavior - defers to CHAMP (folds against CHAMP's raises, whereas he played nearly every hand before CHAMP sat down).
MP2 (FISH) - Weak and passive. Example - hung on to his pocket 5s against 3 two-tone overcards on the flop, runner-runner to a four-flush where he spiked his set on the river and then had the audacity to raise against 2-3 bettors (obviously losing to the flush but he was stewing about it!).
CO (WAG) - weak and aggressive. Plays pretty much any two cards and stabs at any opportunity where nobody has bet before him. Calls most hands when opposed. Unbelievably lucky at spiking hands for the 2+ hours I played with him. TAG has taken to re-raising any PFR's by WAG in order to isolate him. WAG has been straddling my blinds and raising any hand that RAW is playing, so I've been caught in the middle until CHAMP showed up and curtailed RAW's play.
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Hero has 6h7h.
3 limps to me. Hero calls. WAG raises, TAG re-raises, 3 calls(?). Hero calls.
FLOP: 8h,5c, 2h
check, CHAMP bets, 2 folds, Hero raises(!?), 2 folds, call.
After the session, I was convinced this was my worst mistake of the afternoon and figured a trial by my betters on 2+2 would confirm this.
My feeling was that I was getting squeezed and only had a few more orbits before the aggressive betting (find another table?) was going to put me all-in on a hand where I had a superior hand and was outdrawn (this actually did happen later heads-up with AKo in BB vs 45o UTG by WAG and he flopped a 5 and turned a 5 to knock me out - what can you do?).
I wanted to slow up CHAMP and possibly win outright, but didn't want to pay handsomely to chase my draws. If I called, I felt that WAG would attack and TAG would come over the top to isolate HIM. If I let them play, I was going all-in by the turn. No question.
Turn JD (2 players)
check, check
River 4D
CHAMP bets, Hero Raises. CHAMP folds without a showdown.
CHAMP claimed to have an overpair (ha!) and asked what I had to which I responded I'd tell him for $4 /images/graemlins/smile.gif
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Clearly, I didn't extract as much as I could have and certainly could have seen more hands in this session had I called and hit, but at the time I felt a short-term gain was a better play.
Any thoughts? Thanks in advance!
Reads:
BB (TAG) - TAG, but occasional holes. On a previous hand in SB, he completed against 5 players with T2o, flop came down T85r, 5 on the turn and J on the river and he chased it to the end despite aggressive bidding on my part (which he won, so either he's a genius, had a good read on me, or is a moron at times).
UTG (CHAMP) - New player ~2 orbits, but apparently home-game CHAMP; complete with overacting and cheap theatrics. Unopposed, he'll just run over the table, but slows down when confronted. Friends with RAW.
UTG + 1 (RAW) - been with us an hour and can't comprehend the betting structure. Bets out middle pair against suited connected flops and family pots. He's down nearly a rack. New behavior - defers to CHAMP (folds against CHAMP's raises, whereas he played nearly every hand before CHAMP sat down).
MP2 (FISH) - Weak and passive. Example - hung on to his pocket 5s against 3 two-tone overcards on the flop, runner-runner to a four-flush where he spiked his set on the river and then had the audacity to raise against 2-3 bettors (obviously losing to the flush but he was stewing about it!).
CO (WAG) - weak and aggressive. Plays pretty much any two cards and stabs at any opportunity where nobody has bet before him. Calls most hands when opposed. Unbelievably lucky at spiking hands for the 2+ hours I played with him. TAG has taken to re-raising any PFR's by WAG in order to isolate him. WAG has been straddling my blinds and raising any hand that RAW is playing, so I've been caught in the middle until CHAMP showed up and curtailed RAW's play.
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Hero has 6h7h.
3 limps to me. Hero calls. WAG raises, TAG re-raises, 3 calls(?). Hero calls.
FLOP: 8h,5c, 2h
check, CHAMP bets, 2 folds, Hero raises(!?), 2 folds, call.
After the session, I was convinced this was my worst mistake of the afternoon and figured a trial by my betters on 2+2 would confirm this.
My feeling was that I was getting squeezed and only had a few more orbits before the aggressive betting (find another table?) was going to put me all-in on a hand where I had a superior hand and was outdrawn (this actually did happen later heads-up with AKo in BB vs 45o UTG by WAG and he flopped a 5 and turned a 5 to knock me out - what can you do?).
I wanted to slow up CHAMP and possibly win outright, but didn't want to pay handsomely to chase my draws. If I called, I felt that WAG would attack and TAG would come over the top to isolate HIM. If I let them play, I was going all-in by the turn. No question.
Turn JD (2 players)
check, check
River 4D
CHAMP bets, Hero Raises. CHAMP folds without a showdown.
CHAMP claimed to have an overpair (ha!) and asked what I had to which I responded I'd tell him for $4 /images/graemlins/smile.gif
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Clearly, I didn't extract as much as I could have and certainly could have seen more hands in this session had I called and hit, but at the time I felt a short-term gain was a better play.
Any thoughts? Thanks in advance!