Tuesday, January 19, 2010

280ish Hands @ 5NL

After reviewing my play earlier today at 10NL, I reassured myself that I didn't play too poorly.

  • 2 x AA vs. Underpairs
  • KK vs. AA
  • Full house vs. Full house
  • Set over Set
In 3 of them I lost 100bb, we weren't deep-stacked, so I guess I had to go with some of the decisions. My KK vs. AA all-in preflop, reminds me of the Sammy Farha vs. Barry Greenstein hand. Sammy had Kings and Greenstein had Aces. The blinds were 300/600 w/100 Antes. They both got it all-in preflop and created a pot of $361.8k. Farha with his Kings, went all-in preflop with around 300BBs. Is it right to go all-in preflop with KK that deep-stacked? I don't know if I would stack off with KK preflop sitting behind 300BBs. Well I did stack off today with KK, luckily I only lost 100BBs.

So I climbed back on the horse or maybe pony I shall say, and took a stab at 5NL. There were 2 memorable hands that I remember.

9To vs. 77...


Picked up 9To in LP. Cut-off and Button were tight players, so I knew if I called, I'd most likely win the Button. Also we have players playing with around 200BBs, so I see it worthwhile to play these suited connectors in position. 8d4h7d flop. Villain bets 1/2 pot, I call. Another 4c falls on the turn. 1/2 pot bet by Vill again. I'm thinking he could have an 8x, trip 4s, 7x, flush draw. I have 2 over-cards and an open-ended straight draw, so I look him up on his turn bet. Little do I realize that I'm drawing dead. One of the best cards in the deck falls for Villain on the river, a Jack of clubs, completing my straight. If it was a blank, Jd or 6d, I might have saved half a buy-in. Only when he re-re-raised me on the river, I got the bad news. Thought for awhile and paid him off. Maybe in the old days, I would do something crazy and shove, but at least I didn't do that now.

55 vs. QTs


At least this hand made me some profit. Pretty much never folding a set here. He'll rarely have a higher set and he would have raised preflop with QQ. Finished up $3 or so.

The End.

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First Major Shot at Full Ring 10NL

Well I decided to take a shot at Full Ring 10NL today (played 1300 hands), with about $227 in my bankroll. I won about 2 buy-ins playing 167 hands of 5NL earlier and was feeling confident. I started 4 tabling 10NL. Was pretty much break even, but noticed I was still down about $4. Then I realized that missing $4 was from the rake. Wasn't liking 10NL already. I kept playing and this hand happened:


Caught AKo in LP sitting with 190bbs. Raised and got called by the cut-off with 140bbs. Both of us with healthy stacks. Flop came TdKdAc, top 2-pair here we go. Potential straight and flush draw, no time to play this slow. I didn't put him on a high pocket pair, I would have expected him to raise with JJ+ and AK. Turn was a Qs, anybody holding a Jack would have the nuts thus far. I put out of a little feeler bet of a little less than half the pot. I got called. River was a Kh, filling up my hand with KKKAA. A really great card for me as it filled up Villain's set of Qs for QQQKK. I really thought he had a J for sure. Something like AJ or QdJd. Was really surprised to see he had Queens full. The pot was $3.35 by the river. I was pretty much ready to check/call him on the river if my hand didn't improve. An interesting river card would have been the Jack of Diamonds. I'm most likely going to check/call that river card too. I wouldn't pull anything too crazy in those two last situations.

Then things started to get bad...

One of these @ 1:58PM:


Then this one @ 3:15PM:


This one... @ 3:27PM


Flopped tripps 3:28PM:


Flopped a set of 4s @ 3:39PM (had clicked sit out at next blind):


$218 + 5NL winnings = $227 - 10NL losings - rake = $192

Weeeeeee back to 5NL I go. Surprisingly I wasn't very much tilted. I just had had enough at that time though.
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