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djoyce003

08-08-2005, 09:46 AM

Normally play the NL 100 but I decided I wanted to try my hand at being a maniac just to see how it works if you are not being a pure maniac, just trying to look like one.

Starting out by doing the standard stuff...raising a field of limpers to $5 with 6 3 offsuit...showing it when they all fold. That brought up this hand.

How do you like my line.

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $ BB (6 max, 5 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

UTG ($79)
MP ($58.05)
Hero ($72.60)
SB ($79.30)
BB ($37.15)

Preflop: Hero is Button with 5/images/graemlins/club.gif, 8/images/graemlins/diamond.gif. SB posts a blind of $0.25.
2 folds, Hero raises to $2, SB (poster) calls $1.75, BB calls $1.50.

Flop: ($6) 7/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 6/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 6/images/graemlins/heart.gif (3 players)
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets $5, SB calls $5, BB folds.

Turn: ($16) 9/images/graemlins/club.gif (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $10, SB raises to $60, Hero calls $55.60 (All-In), SB calls $5.59.

River: ($147.20) 4/images/graemlins/heart.gif (2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: $147.20

Tried the same stuff after this table broke. Here is another gem.

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $ BB (6 max, 5 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

BB ($31.20)
UTG ($142.15)
Hero ($49)
Button ($123.95)
SB ($36.75)

Preflop: Hero is MP with 9/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, Q/images/graemlins/diamond.gif. SB posts a blind of $0.25.
1 fold, Hero calls $0.50, 1 fold, SB (poster) completes, BB raises to $2.5, Hero calls $2.50, SB folds.

Flop: ($6.50) 4/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 6/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 5/images/graemlins/diamond.gif (2 players)
BB bets $4, Hero calls $4.

Made this call only to take it away from him on the turn if anything resembling a scare card falls.

Turn: ($14.50) 6/images/graemlins/club.gif (2 players)
BB bets $5, Hero raises to $14, BB folds.

Final Pot: $33.50

Showed the bluff on the end...1 or 2 hands later, we play this hand. Given the lines and image i've tried to portray how do you like it?

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $ BB (6 max, 6 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

Button ($66.50)
SB ($94.87)
BB ($19.50)
Hero ($66.55)
MP ($64.26)
CO ($22.10)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with K/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, K/images/graemlins/club.gif. SB posts a blind of $0.25.
Hero raises to $4, 2 folds, Button calls $4, 2 folds.

Flop: ($8.75) 5/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, 6/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, 9/images/graemlins/diamond.gif (2 players)
Hero bets $7, Button calls $7.

Turn: ($22.75) A/images/graemlins/club.gif (2 players)
Hero bets $20, Button calls $20.

River: ($62.75) 2/images/graemlins/diamond.gif (2 players)
Hero calls $35.55 (All-In), Button calls $35.50 (All-In).

Final Pot: $133.80

BirdieLongSocks

08-08-2005, 09:56 AM

Hand 1: Turn call is debateble, how was villian playing?
Althou you are most likly ahead.

Hand 2: If villian is capable of folding to you image then I guess its pretty sweat.

Hand 3: Flop lead is good but when the A come you haft to slow down. Check and hope he gets you the odds althou you might already be drawing dead

djoyce003

08-08-2005, 04:33 PM

[ QUOTE ]
Hand 1: Turn call is debateble, how was villian playing?
Althou you are most likly ahead.

Hand 2: If villian is capable of folding to you image then I guess its pretty sweat.

Hand 3: Flop lead is good but when the A come you haft to slow down. Check and hope he gets you the odds althou you might already be drawing dead

[/ QUOTE ]

Villain in hand 1 is a total moron...stats are like 60/2 and he's aggro first flop. I stacked him earlier with top pair when he was short stacked and open pushed a flop, then later he doubled up through me when he open pushed top pair and I called with aces...he caught his kicker to beat me with two pair. I can see him pushing with literally anything on this board...he doesn't need the full house to push here at all.

Hand 2 - this was just to show the setup for hand 3.

Hand 3 - yeah the ace scared, me but I thought it might also scare him since I raised preflop...I really didn't want to slowdown because I thought I was likely still good, and I might have outs if i'm not...of course if he has the ace of diamonds i'm screwed. On the river i'm not folding no matter what he bets so I just put the rest in. I figured that given my table image at this point and i had REALLY been maniacing it up that he would call with a large range of worse hands, including any diamond at all.

08-08-2005, 04:49 PM

Hand 1: I'm assuming you won this pot, since you posted it. But, man, what sort of crap does he have that he makes that turn raise with? I can't imagine you being ahead of any villain who is not in a persistent vegetative state, but God bless you and your read if you took that pot.

Hands 2 and 3: Artistry married to serendipity. Nice bluff on hand 2, and hand three following hard on the heels of hand 2 is proof that the poker gods were smiling on you, and then you played a nice hand to max extract. Good job.

So how did your experiment go? You like playing the tasmanian devil for a while? profitable?

djoyce003

08-08-2005, 05:14 PM

It was actually quite awesome. Up 3 buyins in about 45 minutes. Somewhere in there I got a preflop raise of $7 called by three people with AA. Open pushed the flop and took it down. It was beautiful. They just didn't notice that after I acted crazy I settled down. I might actually dabble in this again tonight I enjoyed it so much. The only catch is that reads are super important so I can really only single table it. Won hand 1...and 3....he called me with a Q 10 offsuit, the 10 was a diamond, so 10 high flush there. I can't believe he called the turn bet with that hand and I really can't believe he called the river, but after the crap i'd been showing down, I guess I can believe it.

08-08-2005, 05:58 PM

I have no problem believing he called you on the river on hand three; no doubt he thought you were bluffing, representing his hand. lol. N1.

I am still amazed that you won hand 1, though; what did he have?

djoyce003

08-08-2005, 06:04 PM

oh he had JJ in hand 1....god I bet he was pissed when I rolled 85, I know I would have been.