THWAP!
06-18-2005, 08:41 AM
Decent game at borgata. Folded around to hijack who openraises. Is a young kid, has been playing generally solidly and is a thinking player, though his openraising requirements, especially in late position, are noticeably dipping as the table is getting short. I'm not saying it's going to be 94o or anything like that, but something like J9o is totally in range now.
I threebet with 7 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif6 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif. I had a few reasons for doing this:
(1) as i said, the hijack was opening a little light, and I knew it
(2) my table image is pretty good, as I was playing reasonably tightly preflop, and valuebetting aggressively postflop.
(3) I knew that the hijack was a thinking player, so I could make him laydown a fair amount of hands postflop
Button caps it. Oops! Button is a very old man. He floats tons of stuff. He's floated AK and KK earlier in the session. He pretty much just calls everything on later sts. But he capped here. Yikes. He pretty much has to have AA to do this.
Folded around to hijack who gives a noticeable expression of ugh; he calls, I call.
Flop is K /images/graemlins/diamond.gif6 /images/graemlins/club.gif2 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif. Well, that's almost about as good as it can get for me.
Hijack checks, I bet, Button raises, hijack folds, I 3 bet.
I 3 bet here because:
(1) My hand should have good equity in this spot, unless he has KK, which is (somewhat) unlikely, given the tendencies of this guy
(2) The old man is passive. If I 3 bet here, I can actually frighten him out of betting the turn.
Turn is not noteworthy.
I check, button checks.
River is lovely Q /images/graemlins/diamond.gif.
I bet, button calls.
Thoughts on my thinking and play on all sts much appreciated.
I threebet with 7 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif6 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif. I had a few reasons for doing this:
(1) as i said, the hijack was opening a little light, and I knew it
(2) my table image is pretty good, as I was playing reasonably tightly preflop, and valuebetting aggressively postflop.
(3) I knew that the hijack was a thinking player, so I could make him laydown a fair amount of hands postflop
Button caps it. Oops! Button is a very old man. He floats tons of stuff. He's floated AK and KK earlier in the session. He pretty much just calls everything on later sts. But he capped here. Yikes. He pretty much has to have AA to do this.
Folded around to hijack who gives a noticeable expression of ugh; he calls, I call.
Flop is K /images/graemlins/diamond.gif6 /images/graemlins/club.gif2 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif. Well, that's almost about as good as it can get for me.
Hijack checks, I bet, Button raises, hijack folds, I 3 bet.
I 3 bet here because:
(1) My hand should have good equity in this spot, unless he has KK, which is (somewhat) unlikely, given the tendencies of this guy
(2) The old man is passive. If I 3 bet here, I can actually frighten him out of betting the turn.
Turn is not noteworthy.
I check, button checks.
River is lovely Q /images/graemlins/diamond.gif.
I bet, button calls.
Thoughts on my thinking and play on all sts much appreciated.