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Some hands, some ancestors
Dec. 6th, 2009 02:05 pmA couple of AK hands. As you probably know, AK is the new AQ online. But these two worked out ok.
$100 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, December 06,
Seat 9 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 2: A_KOLMOGOROV ( $92.36 USD )
Seat 1: Hero ( $102.80 USD )
Seat 7: ENJ0YME ( $104.88 USD )
Seat 5: Fromolon ( $100 USD )
Seat 4: OmarKhayyam9 ( $100 USD )
Seat 9: Villain ( $156.26 USD )
Seat 3: Tubarao777 ( $96.01 USD )
Seat 6: damian_banks ( $97.56 USD )
Seat 8: o_pheliac ( $98.50 USD )
Hero posts small blind [$0.50 USD].
A_KOLMOGOROV posts big blind [$1 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero [ A♣; K♠ ]
Tubarao777 folds
Fromolon raises [$3 USD]
damian_banks folds
ENJ0YME folds
o_pheliac folds
Villain raises [$7 USD]
Hero raises [$32.50 USD]
((This looks rather aggressive with AKo vs a raise and a reraise, but this is Sunday morning and the initial raiser is loose in his standards, meaning that villain, already a loose raiser, might be tempted to put in a weaker-range-than-normal isolation raise. The relatively small size of the reraise reinforces my thinking here. However, if initial raiser or reraiser shoves, I can still fold a hand where my expected range is no more than 18%-20% EV))
A_KOLMOGOROV folds
Fromolon folds
Villain calls [$26 USD]
((This is beginning to look like JJ or QQ, although it might be AK or (just) KK.))
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3♣, 4♣, 2♠ ]
((An interesting flop! Now, if opponent has AKs or AKo I have good fold equity (because he can't have AKs with a flush draw). If he has QQ I have (less) fold equity (in fact I should have none, because if QQ is folding post-flop on this kind of board, why is he calling the reraise pre-flop? But, well, opponents don't always act optimally.) If he has KK I doubt that I have any fold equity.
However, my outs against QQ are good. Any 5, any A, any K or runner-runner clubs. No time to pokerstove that when I am playing, but I think it has to be more than 33.3%, which is the key number here (any fold equity makes it a positive EV bet).
Hero is all-In [$69.80 USD]
Villain: kk or aa
Villain will be using his time bank for this hand.
((Villain thought for about half his time bank on this hand. I'm fairly sure he is QQ, but, eventually, he came to the right decision.))
((My equity is 39.5%, btw.))
Villain calls [$69.80 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ K◊; ]
((fortunately, to no avail….))
** Dealing River ** [ T♡; ]
Hero shows [ A♣, K♠ ]a pair of Kings.
Villain shows [ Q♡, Q♣; ]a pair of Queens.
Hero wins $206.60 USD from the main pot with a pair of Kings.
HAND TWO
$100 USD NL Texas Hold'em -
Seat 9 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 1: A_KOLMOGOROV ( $241.28 USD )
Seat 5: Hero ( $104.13 USD )
Seat 3: DUKU101 ( $302.94 USD )
Seat 7: ENJ0YME ( $129.14 USD )
Seat 2: Fromolon ( $100 USD )
Seat 8: OmarKhayyam9 ( $98.50 USD )
Seat 9: in_the_bobo ( $106.35 USD )
Seat 4: o_pheliac ( $100 USD )
Seat 6: simex88888 ( $100 USD )
A_KOLMOGOROV posts small blind [$0.50 USD].
Fromolon posts big blind [$1 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero [ A♠ K◊; ]
DUKU101 raises [$2 USD]
((Very loose-aggressive pre-flop. 75/30. Likes this early mini-raise. I've already decided to put the guy to the test with Top-pair-decent kicker or better.))
o_pheliac folds
Hero raises [$6 USD]
ENJ0YME folds
OmarKhayyam9 folds
in_the_bobo folds
A_KOLMOGOROV folds
Fromolon folds
DUKU101 calls [$4 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Q♡, 5♠, A♡; ]
DUKU101 bets [$5 USD]
Hero raises [$14 USD]
((Many many players flat-call here against agg opponents. Bollocks, I say. I'm in front and I want to make him pay. Raising this size of bet on the flop when you have TPTK is more profitable against all types of opponent at this level, although for differing reasons. For straightforward players you are raising a hand that the bet shows is middling. Against trickier players you are both raising for value AND disguising your hand, because trickier players expect top pair to flat-call.))
DUKU101 calls [$9 USD]
((There's now about $40 in the pot and I have $84 behind. I'm planning a pot bet on the turn.))
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3♣; ]
DUKU101 bets [$9 USD]
((However, this bet kind of changes things. I had thought that he was a bad Ace such as AT or AJ, but perhaps he's on some kind of draw – say a flush draw with a gutshot? That would make more sense given the size of the bet. Like I say, the guy is tricky and laggy, so you have to allow for a wider range than normal. The problem here is that I might be well-ahead-well-behind (AK vs e.g. AT or e.g. A3), or I might be ahead against a draw (flush draw and a gutshot).
In addition, my pot bet now becomes obviously commitworthy, and I'd now rather take down the pot now than go to showdown (partly because there is more money in the pot and partly because I think that the chance that he is on a draw has increased)).
Hero is all-In [$84.13 USD]
((That solves the reverse implied odds problem. If in doubt, fold or shove, I say....)
DUKU101 folds
Hero does not show cards.
Hero wins $131.66 USD
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As you can see I'm back at $100 buy in for the moment. I've got back a third of what I lost last month already (helped by actually running half-good on a couple of all-ins) and that's without much bonus money. This morning I dipped my toe in the water with a single table of $200 buy-in on Party, mainly because only five tables of $100 buy-in were running. I'm doing bits and pieces of hit-andrun on FTP and Stars – all helping to rebuild bankroll and confidence. Five-tabling FTP $100 buy-in with (at one point) a $560 bankroll was a great way of focusing the mind. Back up to $700 bankroll there now.
And I've been doing some reading on 2+2. Their "Concept of the Week" on the Full Ring Micro Stakes forum is useful, not because I plan to take up any new concepts, but because I want to know how the regular opponents are thinking.
Am absolutely loving True Blood on TV. Have also discovered a couple of interesting bands. 65daysofstatic are a God Speed You Black Emperor/Harmonia corss-over, from Sheffield!
Also The Church. Australian, been around a long long time. Echoes of The Bats, Early Cure. Interesting.
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Further genealogy. On the Middlesbrough front, I'm sorry to inform Mr Dickson that it appears this was a temporary work assignment for my great-grandfather, hence my grandfather being born there. In fact nearly all of the Birkses on that side (and, therefore, I assume, on my maternal side on that line), seem to come from a small part of Shropshire/Staffordshire that, even now, appears to be in the middle of nowhere. Just look up Bishops Offley, Cheswardne, Moreton Say, Adbaston, Chetwynd and Longford and you appear to have the Birks generation of blacksmiths and wheelwrights going back centuries (well, great great grandfather Enoch, in any way, who was born in 1817).
On the mother's mother's father's side (Alfred James Starkey, born 1853), I appear to come from a family that worked in the leather trade in various ways shapes and forms (shoe makers, leather case makers, etc) and who lived in parts of Hackney until I get back to great great grandfather John Starkey (born 1796) who lived in Worship Street, a road that I traverse every morning when on my way to work.
The censuses appear to be rather unreliable in certain places. I'm fairly sure that great grandmother Ruth Starkey was one of many many offspring of shoemaker John Helms, of Northampton but born in London. But she doesn't appear in the 1861 censurs. Perhaps he just forgot her.
I haven't even started on my mother's father's side, partly because I suspect that might be the most complex strand (my maternal grandfather was a pianist for the silent movies, but was also rather peripatetic. Add to that a common name (Harold Palmer) and you can see the problems that might arise).
But, all very interesting stuff. And, as Tony Hancock might have been pleased to say, still English in every case. But it would be neat to find someone who was French, German or African. If an Australian ancestor turns up, kill me now ….
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$100 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, December 06,
Seat 9 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 2: A_KOLMOGOROV ( $92.36 USD )
Seat 1: Hero ( $102.80 USD )
Seat 7: ENJ0YME ( $104.88 USD )
Seat 5: Fromolon ( $100 USD )
Seat 4: OmarKhayyam9 ( $100 USD )
Seat 9: Villain ( $156.26 USD )
Seat 3: Tubarao777 ( $96.01 USD )
Seat 6: damian_banks ( $97.56 USD )
Seat 8: o_pheliac ( $98.50 USD )
Hero posts small blind [$0.50 USD].
A_KOLMOGOROV posts big blind [$1 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero [ A♣; K♠ ]
Tubarao777 folds
Fromolon raises [$3 USD]
damian_banks folds
ENJ0YME folds
o_pheliac folds
Villain raises [$7 USD]
Hero raises [$32.50 USD]
((This looks rather aggressive with AKo vs a raise and a reraise, but this is Sunday morning and the initial raiser is loose in his standards, meaning that villain, already a loose raiser, might be tempted to put in a weaker-range-than-normal isolation raise. The relatively small size of the reraise reinforces my thinking here. However, if initial raiser or reraiser shoves, I can still fold a hand where my expected range is no more than 18%-20% EV))
A_KOLMOGOROV folds
Fromolon folds
Villain calls [$26 USD]
((This is beginning to look like JJ or QQ, although it might be AK or (just) KK.))
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3♣, 4♣, 2♠ ]
((An interesting flop! Now, if opponent has AKs or AKo I have good fold equity (because he can't have AKs with a flush draw). If he has QQ I have (less) fold equity (in fact I should have none, because if QQ is folding post-flop on this kind of board, why is he calling the reraise pre-flop? But, well, opponents don't always act optimally.) If he has KK I doubt that I have any fold equity.
However, my outs against QQ are good. Any 5, any A, any K or runner-runner clubs. No time to pokerstove that when I am playing, but I think it has to be more than 33.3%, which is the key number here (any fold equity makes it a positive EV bet).
Hero is all-In [$69.80 USD]
Villain: kk or aa
Villain will be using his time bank for this hand.
((Villain thought for about half his time bank on this hand. I'm fairly sure he is QQ, but, eventually, he came to the right decision.))
((My equity is 39.5%, btw.))
Villain calls [$69.80 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ K◊; ]
((fortunately, to no avail….))
** Dealing River ** [ T♡; ]
Hero shows [ A♣, K♠ ]a pair of Kings.
Villain shows [ Q♡, Q♣; ]a pair of Queens.
Hero wins $206.60 USD from the main pot with a pair of Kings.
HAND TWO
$100 USD NL Texas Hold'em -
Seat 9 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 1: A_KOLMOGOROV ( $241.28 USD )
Seat 5: Hero ( $104.13 USD )
Seat 3: DUKU101 ( $302.94 USD )
Seat 7: ENJ0YME ( $129.14 USD )
Seat 2: Fromolon ( $100 USD )
Seat 8: OmarKhayyam9 ( $98.50 USD )
Seat 9: in_the_bobo ( $106.35 USD )
Seat 4: o_pheliac ( $100 USD )
Seat 6: simex88888 ( $100 USD )
A_KOLMOGOROV posts small blind [$0.50 USD].
Fromolon posts big blind [$1 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero [ A♠ K◊; ]
DUKU101 raises [$2 USD]
((Very loose-aggressive pre-flop. 75/30. Likes this early mini-raise. I've already decided to put the guy to the test with Top-pair-decent kicker or better.))
o_pheliac folds
Hero raises [$6 USD]
ENJ0YME folds
OmarKhayyam9 folds
in_the_bobo folds
A_KOLMOGOROV folds
Fromolon folds
DUKU101 calls [$4 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Q♡, 5♠, A♡; ]
DUKU101 bets [$5 USD]
Hero raises [$14 USD]
((Many many players flat-call here against agg opponents. Bollocks, I say. I'm in front and I want to make him pay. Raising this size of bet on the flop when you have TPTK is more profitable against all types of opponent at this level, although for differing reasons. For straightforward players you are raising a hand that the bet shows is middling. Against trickier players you are both raising for value AND disguising your hand, because trickier players expect top pair to flat-call.))
DUKU101 calls [$9 USD]
((There's now about $40 in the pot and I have $84 behind. I'm planning a pot bet on the turn.))
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3♣; ]
DUKU101 bets [$9 USD]
((However, this bet kind of changes things. I had thought that he was a bad Ace such as AT or AJ, but perhaps he's on some kind of draw – say a flush draw with a gutshot? That would make more sense given the size of the bet. Like I say, the guy is tricky and laggy, so you have to allow for a wider range than normal. The problem here is that I might be well-ahead-well-behind (AK vs e.g. AT or e.g. A3), or I might be ahead against a draw (flush draw and a gutshot).
In addition, my pot bet now becomes obviously commitworthy, and I'd now rather take down the pot now than go to showdown (partly because there is more money in the pot and partly because I think that the chance that he is on a draw has increased)).
Hero is all-In [$84.13 USD]
((That solves the reverse implied odds problem. If in doubt, fold or shove, I say....)
DUKU101 folds
Hero does not show cards.
Hero wins $131.66 USD
+++++++++++++++++++
As you can see I'm back at $100 buy in for the moment. I've got back a third of what I lost last month already (helped by actually running half-good on a couple of all-ins) and that's without much bonus money. This morning I dipped my toe in the water with a single table of $200 buy-in on Party, mainly because only five tables of $100 buy-in were running. I'm doing bits and pieces of hit-andrun on FTP and Stars – all helping to rebuild bankroll and confidence. Five-tabling FTP $100 buy-in with (at one point) a $560 bankroll was a great way of focusing the mind. Back up to $700 bankroll there now.
And I've been doing some reading on 2+2. Their "Concept of the Week" on the Full Ring Micro Stakes forum is useful, not because I plan to take up any new concepts, but because I want to know how the regular opponents are thinking.
Am absolutely loving True Blood on TV. Have also discovered a couple of interesting bands. 65daysofstatic are a God Speed You Black Emperor/Harmonia corss-over, from Sheffield!
Also The Church. Australian, been around a long long time. Echoes of The Bats, Early Cure. Interesting.
++++++++++++++
Further genealogy. On the Middlesbrough front, I'm sorry to inform Mr Dickson that it appears this was a temporary work assignment for my great-grandfather, hence my grandfather being born there. In fact nearly all of the Birkses on that side (and, therefore, I assume, on my maternal side on that line), seem to come from a small part of Shropshire/Staffordshire that, even now, appears to be in the middle of nowhere. Just look up Bishops Offley, Cheswardne, Moreton Say, Adbaston, Chetwynd and Longford and you appear to have the Birks generation of blacksmiths and wheelwrights going back centuries (well, great great grandfather Enoch, in any way, who was born in 1817).
On the mother's mother's father's side (Alfred James Starkey, born 1853), I appear to come from a family that worked in the leather trade in various ways shapes and forms (shoe makers, leather case makers, etc) and who lived in parts of Hackney until I get back to great great grandfather John Starkey (born 1796) who lived in Worship Street, a road that I traverse every morning when on my way to work.
The censuses appear to be rather unreliable in certain places. I'm fairly sure that great grandmother Ruth Starkey was one of many many offspring of shoemaker John Helms, of Northampton but born in London. But she doesn't appear in the 1861 censurs. Perhaps he just forgot her.
I haven't even started on my mother's father's side, partly because I suspect that might be the most complex strand (my maternal grandfather was a pianist for the silent movies, but was also rather peripatetic. Add to that a common name (Harold Palmer) and you can see the problems that might arise).
But, all very interesting stuff. And, as Tony Hancock might have been pleased to say, still English in every case. But it would be neat to find someone who was French, German or African. If an Australian ancestor turns up, kill me now ….
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