Hand Reviews

[skirtus]

Another daily hand review. A ran all these through ICM. 2 were much closer or marginal decisions than I thought.



Hand #1 - Lots of limping and mini-raising going on. Its been real difficult to steal. When it is folded to the SB everyone has been raising or pushing.


***** Hand History for Game 2540478583 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $10 Buy-in + $1 Entry Fee Trny:14865958 Level:7 Blinds(150/300) - Monday, August 15, 17:23:03 EDT 2005
Table Table 11702 (Real Money)
Seat 9 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 3: HERO ( $1495 )
Seat 5: jsciulli03 ( $1575 )
Seat 8: gaisjohan ( $2090 )
Seat 9: ruran123 ( $1510 )
Seat 10: SoulofTexaS ( $1330 )
Trny:14865958 Level:7
Blinds(150/300)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO [ 5s 5d ]
jsciulli03 folds.
gaisjohan folds.
ruran123 folds.
SoulofTexaS is all-In.
HERO ??


Hand #2 - This has been a tight table for the $10+1s. Normally 3-5 handed by now.

HERO***** Hand History for Game 2542021490 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $10 Buy-in + $1 Entry Fee Trny:14874526 Level:5 Blinds(75/150) - Monday, August 15, 21:55:54 EDT 2005
Table Table 18342 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 8
Seat 1: bighop4141 ( $1920 )
Seat 2: KikiRox ( $420 )
Seat 3: PokerPoopy ( $1020 )
Seat 5: johnnyjobe ( $725 )
Seat 6: ssomega ( $500 )
Seat 7: vodkalimon ( $730 )
Seat 9: dueceshaveit ( $1830 )
Seat 10: HERO ( $855 )
Trny:14874526 Level:5
Blinds(75/150)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO [ 8d 8c ]
vodkalimon folds.
dueceshaveit folds.
HERO ??


Hand #3 - Average $10+1s in the blinds. There a loose but not maniacs.

***** Hand History for Game 2540454906 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $10 Buy-in + $1 Entry Fee Trny:14865958 Level:6 Blinds(100/200) - Monday, August 15, 17:18:24 EDT 2005
Table Table 11702 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 3: HERO ( $1665 )
Seat 5: jsciulli03 ( $1825 )
Seat 8: gaisjohan ( $970 )
Seat 9: ruran123 ( $1810 )
Seat 10: SoulofTexaS ( $1730 )
Trny:14865958 Level:6
Blinds(100/200)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO [ 3h Ad ]
ruran123 folds.
SoulofTexaS folds.
HERO ??

[lastchance]

1. Depends on Villain, but I'm pushing nearly any 2 here, and even donks could be pushing at least 60-70% of hands. I call.

2. Push. While it may be marginal in SGA, in a few hands, you're paying off a quarter of your stack. Need to get it in and try to pick up some chips here.

3. I think this is a push as well.

[tigerite]

#1 is a pretty horrible spot. Down to 4bb if you fold, but still quite a lot of FE, so I think I'd let it go, just. Close one though.

#2 I push without question.

#3 I let go.

[45suited]

1) Close, but fold

2) Mandatory push. It sucks that there are some shorter stacks to act after you who are more likely to call, but not pushing here would be very bad

3) This is the type of hand that perhaps some people push, but I let these go with regularity. I much prefer using my chipstack to exercise some patience. Your opponents on an 11 won't notice this, and will call you a short time later anyway when you push with a much better hand. The idiots on the 11s don't understand the gap, they don't understand the concept of folding now (when faced with a push) and pushing later, and they love calling with any ace. I really don't want a call from any hand here, and I let it go.

[skirtus]

Hands #1 and Hands #3 were both very marginal by my ICM calcs. I pushed my weak ace. I do this alot on the button. I didnt realize what a marginal push this was given my stack size.

Hand #2 - I pushed but thought it was a the toughest decision of the three hands. It was actually the easiest one. *shrug*

[lastchance]

What'd you put SB on?

While any sane 2+2er pushes any 2 as SB, donks don't.

[skirtus]

At the 10s they love any A, any 2 broadway, any pair. Possibly even some Kxs or Qxs.

[bennies]

Hand 1. If I put sb on a modest top 20% then this is an easy call. In my experience most sb's will be wilder than that, not letting go of 22, K9 etc.

[Raiser]

#1 - Fold and look for a better spot to open-push.
#2 - I think this is a pretty easy push.
#3 - I'd fold here, but I'm wonering about this one. You have good FE here, but you aren't hurting for chips yet. I'm not sure folding is right, but that's what I do.

[jgunnip]

1) fold. you're not a big enough favorite against his range to justify calling here. in fact i'd say you're barely ahead.

2) I like a push here.

3) The only thing that makes me not like pushing here is BB's stack, but I still put the chips in.