My first NL hand post!
 

I've played very little NL and I haven't read much either, so I'm just trying to make stuff up as I go. I decided to screw around at a $25 Party NL table for fun.

Villian is 48/25/<=1.00 over about 25 hands. So far he's shown down a few K-rag hands and a pair of sevens, all of which he raised too much preflop. He's taken weird shots at some pots.

So far I hadn't played many hands at the table at all, and I had folded most of them right there. I decided to get a bit frisky and only call the raise in hopes of not scaring him off. In hindsight, I'm not sure exactly how much of a +EV move this is.

In limit, I would almost never consider only calling. Here, though, I hoped to induce a steal attempt. How valid is this?

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $0.25 BB (9 handed) converter

UTG ($33.25)
UTG+1 ($41.1)
MP1 ($8.3)
MP2 ($25)
MP3 ($24)
CO ($10.1)
Hero ($25.4)
SB ($19.25)
BB ($40.65)

Preflop: Hero is Button with A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]. SB posts a blind of $0.1.
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">UTG+1 raises to $3</font>, <font color="#666666">4 folds</font>, Hero calls $3, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>.

Flop: ($6.35) 2[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 3[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
UTG+1 checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $3</font>, <font color="#CC3333">UTG+1 raises to $6</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $15</font>, UTG+1 calls $9.

Turn: ($36.35) 7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
UTG+1 checks, UTG+1 calls $7.40.

River: ($43.75) 7[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>

Final Pot: $43.75

(I pushed my last $7.40 on the turn when he checked to me.)

Re: My first NL hand post!
 

Played fine, I'd reraise more pre-flop though.

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Yeah, that's the most dubious part of this, I think. At the time the cold-call seemed like a nifty idea, but the more I think about it now, the more I hate it.

Re: My first NL hand post!
 

I can't think of many things more +EV than getting all your money in with Aces. Which you did.
Given your description of the villian, besides not raising preflop, this seems fine.

Re: My first NL hand post!
 

Re-raise preflop. I only like the smooth call line if the guy is an absolute maniac and is likely to bluff off his whole stack if I just call. Against a normal PP guy (and this guy has almost stereotypical numbers) just re-raise. If he folds to your re-raise preflop, his cat must've jumped on his mouse hand because it was surely an accident.

Re: My first NL hand post!
 

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Re-raise preflop. I only like the smooth call line if the guy is an absolute maniac and is likely to bluff off his whole stack if I just call.

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He was. He showed 66. Lucky of me to find someone so giving.

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If he folds to your re-raise preflop, his cat must've jumped on his mouse hand because it was surely an accident.

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If everyone's this crazy, I think I'm going to have to actually learn this game. I tripled up in 45 minutes.. felt great after 10,000 hands of breaking even at 1/2 limit. Certainly a fun change of pace besides.

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Limit is for Asian women...not strong boilermaking men who run a fine spread offence under the greatest offensive mind the b10 has seen in decades..

Yeah limit blows unless you are 24 tabling 1-2 with PT+ BELLS AND WHISTLES...grinding out a buck an hr at each table...unfortunately that sounds like work to me.

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Yeah limit blows unless you are 24 tabling 1-2 with PT+ BELLS AND WHISTLES...grinding out a buck an hr at each table...unfortunately that sounds like work to me.

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Wow. That was the greatest thing I've ever read on this board.

Re: My first NL hand post!
 

NL is as much of a grind as limit.

Everything is automatic and you truly only need to think about a hand every now and then.

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Agreed Ancient but at least NL gets your heart racing once in a while... Getting in all your money when you are fairly sure you are ahead waiting to see villains muck...or his quads