A few hands from a 5/10 6 max table

[RyanR]

Played at Pokerstars on a 6 max 5/10 table last night and I decided to share a few hands and try to get some input on my game. Any comments are greatly appreciated, my play felt solid but I'm probably a little biased /images/graemlins/smile.gif

Hand 1:
One limper on button, I'm in small blind and complete with K9o. Flop comes down K94 rainbow, I bet and get two calls. Turn brings a 5 whichs puts a twoflush on board; I check - BB bets - button folds - I raise - BB just calls. River is an offsuit six - I bet out - BB raises - I re-raise turning him into a mere caller and my hand is good.

Hand 2:
I raise with two black queens UTG, only the blinds the call. The flop is a pretty co-ordinated T87 board, though all of different suits. The blinds just check and I bet - SB calls - BB checkraises - I three-bet and only the BB calls. Turn brings a 6 completing the open-ender but the action goes check - bet - call. The river brings a K and I make what seems to be a pretty routine value bet? BB calls and I win!

Hand 3:
Dealt AA utg and raise....only the small blind calls. I get checkraised on the flop and just call, luring him into my spiderweb of deception Turn brings a Jack and the Enemy comes out bettting - I raise - he re-raises! The only hand I think I should worry about here is KJ with a very small possibility of a flopped set. I four-bet his sorry arse and he can only call. River is an innocuous deuce; he checks, I bet and he just calls! AA goot. Anyone slow down after he three bets on the turn?


Okay, okay..I don't win every hand, let's mix this up =)


Hand 5:
UTG raises and I'm the lone caller in the BB with KJs. El floppo (spanish for THE floppo) is K74 with a twoflush on-board, not of my suit. I check with the intention of raising and he checks behind (alarm bells anyone?) The turn is an offsuit deuce and I bet out - he raises - I think for a few seconds and muck. A little too weak-tight? I smelled a monster and still feel I made a good laydown...other opinions?

Hand 6:
I raise in first position with KQo. Its folded to the blinds who both call. Flop = 479 with two hearts (I have the queen of hearts). Action goes check - check - check. I've been getting check-raised a lot on these kind of boards and figured to take off a free card for once. Any input on this? In hindsight I probably should've bet, but alas... The turn is a Ten of hearts which gives me a gutshot and the third nut flush draw. SB bets - BB folds - I call with what looks like 17 outs (could be 12 or I could be drawing dead) getting 4 to 1. This definately would've been the place to take a free card, had I bet on the flop, sigh. Anyways, is this call a little thin? I thought about raising but didn't see any way that he would fold. River is a blank and I fold to a bet.

Hand 7:
I open-raise on the button with AJo, only the small blind calls and we see a flop of A24 of the rainbow variety. The action goes check - bet - call. Turn brings a five, completing a random gutshot draw, but the betting is identical to the previous round. The river is an 8 he checks - I bet - he checkraises - I make a crying (to myself anyways) call knowing EXACTLY what he has....and of course he shows the A8. I should be able to lay this down on the river, right?

The session went pretty smoothly for me. I made about 35bbs in approximately 2.5 hours.

Here are my stats, let me know if they look close to what I should be doing... The stat that sticks out to me is the fact that I played 46 hands and won 37 of them, perhaps I was running better than I thought!

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 146 hands and saw flop:
- 11 out 26 times while in big blind (42%)
- 12 out 25 times while in small blind (48%)
- 23 out 95 times in other positions (24%)
- a total of 46 out of 146 (31%)
Pots won at showdown - 15 of 17 (88%)
Pots won without showdown - 20

Thanks in advance for all your comments!

[naphand]

Hand 1 & 2 look fine to me.

Hand 3 I probably just call the 3-bet and his bet on the River (but you did not show us the flop, which I assume was K high).

Hand 5 (4?). You are never certain here but, what K combination would he raise with UTG that you can beat? A set is also possible (77). If you're happy with the fold then fine, if you are bugged by these laydowns then call a few down, and certainly you don't want to develop a habit of folding TP J kicker HU too often without a good read on your opponent. Would your opponent CR with JJ or QQ here? hoping you fold a weak K? His check behind on the flop does look suspicious against the BB. Fold some of these, call down some.

Hand 6 looks fine to me. If you're getting CR a lot, then your check behind with just overcards looks OK. Call on the Turn with lots of ways to win, no problem and with only 1 player in who is probably not folding and may even re-raise, a raise is not realistic (even with 17 possible outs). Fold when you miss - fine.

Hand 7 I'm afraid you are going to need to call in that position pretty much all the time. You may feel like a pay-off artist, but you'd be surprised what a lot of these River bets are made of. There are 8 BB in the pot, so you only have to win better than 12.5% of the time to make money on them. If you start folding you will increasingly find yourself in that position as players try it on with 2nd pair or total bluffs.

Flop % looks correct. That's a high showdown %age, so you were not getting outdrawn very much and your hands were holding up well - I think 50-60% might be more normal.

Naphand