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2 Pocket Pair hands
Hand #1:
Paradise Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (10 handed) converter MP2 ($10.00) MP3 ($12.85) CO ($25.00) Button ($23.65) Hero ($22.50) BB ($64.75) UTG ($28.30) UTG+1 ($9.85) UTG+2 ($55.35) MP1 ($24.45) Preflop: Hero is SB with Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]. MP2 posts a blind of $0.25. CO posts a blind of $0.25. Hero posts a blind of $0.10. <font color="666666">1 fold</font>, UTG+1 calls $0.25, <font color="666666">1 fold</font>, MP1 calls $0.25, MP2 (poster) checks, MP3 calls $0.25, CO (poster) checks, <font color="666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="CC3333">Hero (poster) raises to $1.1</font>, <font color="666666">1 fold</font>, UTG+1 calls $0.85, MP1 calls $0.85, MP2 folds, MP3 calls $0.85, CO folds. <font color="green">I think that's a good amount for a raise. I want to eliminate guys so they don't have draws on me, and this feels like the right amount.</font> Flop: ($5.15) K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(4 players)</font> <font color="CC3333">Hero bets $4</font>, UTG+1 folds, <font color="CC3333">MP1 raises to $8</font>, MP3 folds, Hero ??? <font color="green">Uh oh a King. Maybe if I bet strong at it, I can represent big slick and at least see what people have out there. Looks like I found out, huh?</font> ************************************************ Hand #2: Paradise Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (9 handed) converter <font color="green">The hand before, MP2 calls CO's $2.80 preflop raise with K3o. CO had QQ. Both an Ace and a King flop. MP2 bets, CO calls - they check down. I figure CO must be steaming to take MP2's money, so I'm playing with that in mind.</font> CO ($39.28) Button ($21.70) SB ($47.50) BB ($25.45) UTG ($18.17) UTG+1 ($25.45) MP1 ($65.86) MP2 ($9.15) Hero ($24.75) Preflop: Hero is MP3 with A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. UTG calls $0.25, UTG+1 calls $0.25, <font color="666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="CC3333">MP2 raises to $2.4</font>, Hero calls $2.40, CO calls $2.40, <font color="666666">3 folds</font>, UTG folds, UTG+1 folds. Flop: ($7.95) 8[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(3 players)</font> MP2 checks, <font color="CC3333">Hero bets $3</font>, <font color="CC3333">CO raises to $6</font>, MP2 calls $6, <font color="CC3333">Hero raises to $13</font>, <font color="CC3333">CO raises to $20</font>, MP2 calls $0.75, (All-In) calls $2.35. Turn: ($50.05) Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(3 players)</font> River: ($50.05) Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(3 players)</font> Final Pot: $50.05 <font color="green">Main Pot: $50.05, between CO, SB, MP2 and Hero.</font> Results to follow (although if I'm posting an aces hand, you can guess what happened) |
#2
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Results
Hand 1: I fold. Is that weak tight? I'm thinking not, but it's painful to not get paid with a high pocket pair. There is a POSSIBLITY that he's semi-bluffing with a straight draw. I thought about it for a while, and just decided to be a bit weak. I think this had something to do with Hand 2, though.
Hand 2: CO has 77 and takes down the pot with his flopped set. MP2 had KTo, so I have no idea what that guy was doing. Argh - it's probably a bad beat story (well, not exactly as he was WAY ahead when I went all-in). I guess it's more of an on-tilt story. I basically had to get up and leave the tables (I was 2-tabling) at this point in time before I got really stupid or something. |
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Re: 2 Pocket Pair hands
Ok, I haven't looked at the results yet.
That format makes it a little tough to sort out the action. Hand 1- With the posters and the limpers, I don't think your raise was enough. I'd make it $1.75 or $2. I like your flop bet and your fold to the raise. Hand 2- Given your decription of MP2, I believe you should have re-raised enough to set him in preflop. If the maniac likes his hand enough to raise a quarter of his stack, he'll have no trouble calling off the rest of it. The min-raise on the flop puts you in a tough spot, especially if you trust your read that the CO is steaming. With the way the action has gone down, his min raise probably deserves a little more respect than normal. I'd have bet more on the flop, around $6, to let him know I'm serious. Since you opted to just call preflop, your hand hasn't been defined, which makes this flop decision more difficult than it should be. |
#4
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Re: 2 Pocket Pair hands
hand 1 fold.
hand 2, it looks like you lost when he reraises your checkraise. |
#5
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Re: 2 Pocket Pair hands
That's actually what I was looking for. I think I fried a circuit or two thinking, "I'm on a downstreak. Oh, look, Aces! Time to get PAID!" And then going WAY too far with them.
A sane person would realize that their check-raise got raised, and goes, "Wait a minute..." Ack - need to learn discipline. (But not too much "discipline" where I get weak.) I think your reply is what I needed. |
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Re: 2 Pocket Pair hands
You let CO in beind you when you only smooth called the raise. That looks like a pretty costly move this time.
I don't think that aces should be slowplayed at these limits. |
#7
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Re: 2 Pocket Pair hands
Hand #2's more painful, but I dislike the play of Hand #1 a lot more. If you're going to raise from the blinds, you should usually raise more than normal or not at all, since your position will be so bad. Either take a flop cheap or get it heads-up... what you want to avoid is what happened here, playing a big pot out of position. Given that that happened, the bet on the flop is a suicide mission. There are just too many people to hope that no one has a king or better
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