My favorite hand of last week.

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But this is my type of hand, I like to play a lot of hands and take a lot of flops,

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I hate to say it, but my Pokertracker says you have a VP$IP of around 17, so that doesnt sound quite right to me. It is a pretty small sample size, but still..

About the hand..I would have folded it pre-flop, and folded it on the flop 80-90% of the time, depending on the opponent. On the turn i would fold it 100% of the time, but then you say you had a read on him that he was playing with nothing..hmm, I dont know.

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But this is my type of hand, I like to play a lot of hands and take a lot of flops,

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I hate to say it, but my Pokertracker says you have a VP$IP of around 17, so that doesnt sound quite right to me.

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I was going to say the same thing... Jorge, the fact that your VPIP is around half of mine makes me think that you might be playing a lot of the wrong PLO8 hands if you're playing QQxx with regularity, and missing many of the "right" hands.

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If he is, as he says, pulling in 2 buyins per 1000 hands (10 BB/100), it may be Jorge has a viable strategy.

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If he is, as he says, pulling in 2 buyins per 1000 hands (10 BB/100), it may be Jorge has a viable strategy.

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There's certainly no debating good results, but playing lots of big pair hand with weak kickers and not playing some other 20% of hands dealt that I would consider playable may not be a viable strategy at levels higher than $100 buyin... Jorge has aspirations to move up, and has mentioned difficulties at the $200 level, so perhaps this is one area to consider making changes.

[Jorge10]

As far as hand selection, I dont play a lot of A/2 hands, the reason is I kept getting into trouble with them because I knew when my opponent had crap, but he would always river me or some weird situation. A few times I pushed in my chips with Queen high for high with A/2 and my opponent called paired on the river and quartered me. Thats the reason why I stopped playing a lot of A/2 hands, the weaker ones only im talking about A/2/J/6 Rainbow, A/2/2/9, you know that type of stuff. I essentially removed the variance in my game by picking my spots.

As far as the 200 goes im beating them consistently now, I looked over the hands and noticed that I was really unlucky and I was also playing with a bunch of rocks, when no one wants to give action no matter what happens, its kind of hard to get their money. I need to find a way to counter this rock strategy. I dont know if there is anyway to get money from people who wont take a flop even when it hasnt been raised, some of the 200 tables I kept playing, it was just nothing but rocks. Combine that with bad luck and well it was a beatdown against me.

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I had to check to make sure I wasn’t villain before commenting on this hand [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

I don’t think completing from the SB is terrible, but folding is ok too.

I fold the flop always

I think you played ok on the turn. You have 2 straight blockers so have fold equity, and have two 2nd nutflush draws for some outs when called. If idiot villain will play with that hand, and tilty-guy can still fold after his bad beat then I like it better. It’s a semi-bluff, so you need to get folds 35+% or so for this to be good – if you had that read then ok.

And my data also shows you to be tight, not a see-lots-flops guy. Which would help your fold equity here.

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There isn't an A2 hand I won't play for up to 1 pot size raise, and I'll raise with any A2 in late position. With the A229 hand you mentioned (or even more so A222), there might be a reasonable argument for not playing. A2J6, you got to play, though. The 6 can be gold if you get just the right cards (345) and can often give you a pair on a low board.

I haven't quite figured out the quartering stuff, yet. I'm pretty sure raising preflop helps with it, since it'll be less likely that two of you have the nut low while a third has a good high. As far as calling down, pushing, or folding with a naked nut low, it's a tricky, read-based situation. If you don't raise much preflop, I think you have to worry about quartering much more, which might be what's affecting your choice of starting hands.

You beat rocks with aggressive play and taking lots of little pots from them. It's boring as crap, though.

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You beat rocks with aggressive play and taking lots of little pots from them. It's boring as crap, though.

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My game selection had been terrible in a way I screwed myself there. I would play in 200 tables where the average pot size was 30. Lets just say thats about as tight as humanly possible. Really boring and also very unprofitable, but ive been picking better 200 tables and its been great since, a lot of times there are no good 200 tables and I just wont play 200, something I refused to believe before. But im getting there.