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Ins and Outs
Jul. 30th, 2009 12:50 pmI seem to have spent quite a few days of the past week getting out of it (this is a technical poker term and has nothing to do with drugs).
Yesterday was no exception, with a $300 loss turning into a $35 gain (helped by the Party cashback bonus -- this is giving me a whopping 11 cents a hand for the next 12,000 hands or so).
The "get-out" hand, after I returned from 10-pin bowling in Brick Lane, was one of those where Hold Em Manager kind of puts up its hands and says "Fucked if I can work out the equity".
Betting went as follows: $200 BI:
Hero (UTG+1)($200): raise to $6
Villain (UTG+2)($300): raise to $20
Short-Stack (CO) raise to $28 all in
Shortstack 2 (Button) call for $18 all in
Hero: raise to $70
Villain: Raise to $300 all in
Hero: Calls for $130 all-in.
Board something like J6649 no flush
Hero shows AA
Villain shows KK
Shortstack 1 shows AA
Shortstack 2 shows QJo
I ended up with $399 at the end of the hand, and HEM gave me an equity of 33% pre-flop. Of course, my position is much better than this because I have something like a 78% equity for the very large side pot.
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Earlier in the day I had misplayed QQ on the button although, perfectly, it actually saved me money. So, money saved and a lesson learnt....
Situation was $400 BI. Both major protagonists have $400.
All pass to Hi-Jack ($130 in front of him) who limps. CO, a regular, raises to $20. I look at QQ and, incorrectly, call. There were probably a couple of factors at play here.
(1) I'd only just sat down and I didn't have a handle on the original limper. This made it harder for me to assess the range of the raiser. But my default view here would be that a reraise is correct.
(2) I'd three-bet an aggressive player when I had QQ the day before and he had shoved for slightly less than a full-stack, which gave me one of those horrible marginal decisions. Indeed, QQ and AKo are the favourites/nemeses for marginal decisions these days, as far as I am concerned. I'd folded to the shove the day before which elicited a "wow" from Canadian opponent, so I guess he did indeed have Aces.
Anyhoo, I cold-call here, and it's passed by original limper, which widens limper's original range and, so, also widens range of initial raiser (because if raiser knows that original limper is of the limp-fold, type, then raiser will obviously widen his raising range)
Flop comes T83 rainbow or something like that. $43 in pot.
Opponent bets $30. I'm still not really thinking this hand through properly, but let's call this bet (or assume this bet to be) a standard continuation. That puts me just about ahead of his range. If I'm OOP I'm check-raising here and following through on the turn with a pot-sized bet. But I have position, which for pot-size purposes makes a flat call attractive. $102 in the pot.
Turn brings another 3, which doesn't look like a helpful card for opponent and, equally significantly, probably makes him think that it hasn't helped me. He bets $60. Although this bet on the turn narrows his range slightly (let's assume he gives up on about half his unpaired hands and checks) I'm still in one of those awkward slots. I suppose I could represent TT here by raising, but that's likely to get rid of JJ (which I'm beating) but not KK (which I'm not). So, with something of a heavy heart, I flat call again. $222 in the pot.
River brings something innocuous (let's say a deuce) and opponent bets $130. Given the default style of players at this level, the time of day, and various other factors, I really should fold here. But opponent has sized his bet very well indeed. It's just of the size that an AK might bet. Or indeed a thinly bet JJ. Bleaagh. I conclude that I'm just about getting the odds to call. I do, and he flips TT for the full house. So it goes.
I've created all my problems by failing to reraise pre-flop. Now, as it happens on this hand reraising pre-flop makes me go broke, because I reraise to $60, opponent flat-calls, He checks the flop. I bet anything between $60 and $120 on the flop, he check-raises me. I call. And by then it's too late to fold the overpair. But this doesn't matter, because it's the classsic case of opponent making his mistake pre-flop. In the long run I will win money with QQ in this position, against opponent's range, if I reraise to $60 pre-flop.
So, one for the notebook there.
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There's been a bit of a rash of mini-raising again on Party, particularly noticeable at $200 . Also an increase (marginal) in the number of short-stackers, but many of them appear rather crap to me, so, well, bring 'em on. The $400 games are looser, more aggressive and, (LDO) tougher than the $200 games, thus increasing volatility. But they are also more enjoyable -- a challenge, and "real" poker, rather than much of the "play-by-rote" game that makes up 95% of my poker-playing day these days.
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I'm going to quit this chatting up women game. I'm getting too old for it and I thnk it would be best to stop before it becomes humiliating/embarrassing for all concerned. I need to find a way to gracefully accept my declining middle age but which doesn't entail never going out and, instead, becoming an expert at Tiger Woods Golf Pro 10.
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Yesterday was no exception, with a $300 loss turning into a $35 gain (helped by the Party cashback bonus -- this is giving me a whopping 11 cents a hand for the next 12,000 hands or so).
The "get-out" hand, after I returned from 10-pin bowling in Brick Lane, was one of those where Hold Em Manager kind of puts up its hands and says "Fucked if I can work out the equity".
Betting went as follows: $200 BI:
Hero (UTG+1)($200): raise to $6
Villain (UTG+2)($300): raise to $20
Short-Stack (CO) raise to $28 all in
Shortstack 2 (Button) call for $18 all in
Hero: raise to $70
Villain: Raise to $300 all in
Hero: Calls for $130 all-in.
Board something like J6649 no flush
Hero shows AA
Villain shows KK
Shortstack 1 shows AA
Shortstack 2 shows QJo
I ended up with $399 at the end of the hand, and HEM gave me an equity of 33% pre-flop. Of course, my position is much better than this because I have something like a 78% equity for the very large side pot.
++++++++
Earlier in the day I had misplayed QQ on the button although, perfectly, it actually saved me money. So, money saved and a lesson learnt....
Situation was $400 BI. Both major protagonists have $400.
All pass to Hi-Jack ($130 in front of him) who limps. CO, a regular, raises to $20. I look at QQ and, incorrectly, call. There were probably a couple of factors at play here.
(1) I'd only just sat down and I didn't have a handle on the original limper. This made it harder for me to assess the range of the raiser. But my default view here would be that a reraise is correct.
(2) I'd three-bet an aggressive player when I had QQ the day before and he had shoved for slightly less than a full-stack, which gave me one of those horrible marginal decisions. Indeed, QQ and AKo are the favourites/nemeses for marginal decisions these days, as far as I am concerned. I'd folded to the shove the day before which elicited a "wow" from Canadian opponent, so I guess he did indeed have Aces.
Anyhoo, I cold-call here, and it's passed by original limper, which widens limper's original range and, so, also widens range of initial raiser (because if raiser knows that original limper is of the limp-fold, type, then raiser will obviously widen his raising range)
Flop comes T83 rainbow or something like that. $43 in pot.
Opponent bets $30. I'm still not really thinking this hand through properly, but let's call this bet (or assume this bet to be) a standard continuation. That puts me just about ahead of his range. If I'm OOP I'm check-raising here and following through on the turn with a pot-sized bet. But I have position, which for pot-size purposes makes a flat call attractive. $102 in the pot.
Turn brings another 3, which doesn't look like a helpful card for opponent and, equally significantly, probably makes him think that it hasn't helped me. He bets $60. Although this bet on the turn narrows his range slightly (let's assume he gives up on about half his unpaired hands and checks) I'm still in one of those awkward slots. I suppose I could represent TT here by raising, but that's likely to get rid of JJ (which I'm beating) but not KK (which I'm not). So, with something of a heavy heart, I flat call again. $222 in the pot.
River brings something innocuous (let's say a deuce) and opponent bets $130. Given the default style of players at this level, the time of day, and various other factors, I really should fold here. But opponent has sized his bet very well indeed. It's just of the size that an AK might bet. Or indeed a thinly bet JJ. Bleaagh. I conclude that I'm just about getting the odds to call. I do, and he flips TT for the full house. So it goes.
I've created all my problems by failing to reraise pre-flop. Now, as it happens on this hand reraising pre-flop makes me go broke, because I reraise to $60, opponent flat-calls, He checks the flop. I bet anything between $60 and $120 on the flop, he check-raises me. I call. And by then it's too late to fold the overpair. But this doesn't matter, because it's the classsic case of opponent making his mistake pre-flop. In the long run I will win money with QQ in this position, against opponent's range, if I reraise to $60 pre-flop.
So, one for the notebook there.
++++++++++
There's been a bit of a rash of mini-raising again on Party, particularly noticeable at $200 . Also an increase (marginal) in the number of short-stackers, but many of them appear rather crap to me, so, well, bring 'em on. The $400 games are looser, more aggressive and, (LDO) tougher than the $200 games, thus increasing volatility. But they are also more enjoyable -- a challenge, and "real" poker, rather than much of the "play-by-rote" game that makes up 95% of my poker-playing day these days.
++++++++++
I'm going to quit this chatting up women game. I'm getting too old for it and I thnk it would be best to stop before it becomes humiliating/embarrassing for all concerned. I need to find a way to gracefully accept my declining middle age but which doesn't entail never going out and, instead, becoming an expert at Tiger Woods Golf Pro 10.
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