08-31-2002, 11:20 AM
Stopped at Foxwoods for about four hours on way to Cape Cod Thursday and decided to sit a little $1-3, see how it went, and maybe move to $2-4 he, $1-5 stud or even try $5-10.
Three and a half hours later, I was still at the very loose, very beatable $1-3 table, down about $55 of my $90 buy in, looking at rolled fives. A lot of interesting hands, including several bad beats, got me to this point. I will probably post several for comments.
In this one, I adhered to my $1-3 strategy of playing very strong hands slow and trappy. I want to stress I would have played this hand differently in a more aggressive $1-5 game. Here's how it went:
(x-x) 4 brings it in
(x-x) 5 folds
two others with nothing relevant fold
(x-x) 7 raises to $4
two others fold to me
(5-5) 5 I just call
Suits are not relevant.
I considered raising here, but the raiser was a competent but very predictable player -- his raise was almost certainly a big pocket pair or possibly split sevens with a big kicker. If I re-raised and he didn't have aces, he was capable of dropping here. The bring in was a very loose weak player who I assumed would fold -- but if she was thinking of calling, I didn't want to change her mind.
(x-x) 4 J
(x-x) 7 10
(5-5) 5 A
Ace made me first to bet and I checked, planning to checkraise. But it was checked around.
(x-x) 4 J 4
(x-x) 7 10 7
(5-5) 5 A A
I bet, fours raise, sevens call, I reraise, both call.
I'm full and am almost surely winning proudly here. The fairly obvious trip fours don't have me worried, as my house is higher. The sevens do have me worried, but I'm thinking it's more likely two pair. When he called my reraise, this player grumbled "I'm not going anywhere" -- which I took as a crying call. Even if he has trips, he may not fill. Of course, I can also improve to aces full (neither of the other aces had been seen).
(x-x) 4 Q 4 6
(x-x) 7 10 7 Q
(5-5) 5 A A K
I bet, fours call, sevens raise. I have to put him on having filled here. I'm thinking he probably had the trip sevens and a queen down. I call fours call.
River I catch the case four, check it's checked around(!). Fours show trips (stared with fours and a king kicker), sevens show queens full. He'd had two pair going into sixth street.
In analyzing this hand, had I reraised on third, I may have folded the bring in. Had I then bet on fourth when I caught my ace, I may have folded the unimproved queeens. So I could have put in three bbs to possibly win two bbs.
But I like how I played it. When the queens up called two bbs on fifth, there was $19 in the pot. So he was getting about 3-1 odds on a 10-1 draw (one queen, two sevens). The fours were drawing to one out (case 4) or running kings. I also had a redraw to aces full that could beat their draws.
The way I played it, I put in 6 bbs to build a pot of 18 bbs in a no ante game.
Comments/criticisms much appreciated.
Larry -- I'm still mulling over your post. Thanks, good stuff.
Three and a half hours later, I was still at the very loose, very beatable $1-3 table, down about $55 of my $90 buy in, looking at rolled fives. A lot of interesting hands, including several bad beats, got me to this point. I will probably post several for comments.
In this one, I adhered to my $1-3 strategy of playing very strong hands slow and trappy. I want to stress I would have played this hand differently in a more aggressive $1-5 game. Here's how it went:
(x-x) 4 brings it in
(x-x) 5 folds
two others with nothing relevant fold
(x-x) 7 raises to $4
two others fold to me
(5-5) 5 I just call
Suits are not relevant.
I considered raising here, but the raiser was a competent but very predictable player -- his raise was almost certainly a big pocket pair or possibly split sevens with a big kicker. If I re-raised and he didn't have aces, he was capable of dropping here. The bring in was a very loose weak player who I assumed would fold -- but if she was thinking of calling, I didn't want to change her mind.
(x-x) 4 J
(x-x) 7 10
(5-5) 5 A
Ace made me first to bet and I checked, planning to checkraise. But it was checked around.
(x-x) 4 J 4
(x-x) 7 10 7
(5-5) 5 A A
I bet, fours raise, sevens call, I reraise, both call.
I'm full and am almost surely winning proudly here. The fairly obvious trip fours don't have me worried, as my house is higher. The sevens do have me worried, but I'm thinking it's more likely two pair. When he called my reraise, this player grumbled "I'm not going anywhere" -- which I took as a crying call. Even if he has trips, he may not fill. Of course, I can also improve to aces full (neither of the other aces had been seen).
(x-x) 4 Q 4 6
(x-x) 7 10 7 Q
(5-5) 5 A A K
I bet, fours call, sevens raise. I have to put him on having filled here. I'm thinking he probably had the trip sevens and a queen down. I call fours call.
River I catch the case four, check it's checked around(!). Fours show trips (stared with fours and a king kicker), sevens show queens full. He'd had two pair going into sixth street.
In analyzing this hand, had I reraised on third, I may have folded the bring in. Had I then bet on fourth when I caught my ace, I may have folded the unimproved queeens. So I could have put in three bbs to possibly win two bbs.
But I like how I played it. When the queens up called two bbs on fifth, there was $19 in the pot. So he was getting about 3-1 odds on a 10-1 draw (one queen, two sevens). The fours were drawing to one out (case 4) or running kings. I also had a redraw to aces full that could beat their draws.
The way I played it, I put in 6 bbs to build a pot of 18 bbs in a no ante game.
Comments/criticisms much appreciated.
Larry -- I'm still mulling over your post. Thanks, good stuff.