An interesting hand

[peterbirks]

This is a typical FML hand on stars this month. However, I have now worked out how to combine all my results on Hold Em Manager (while also keeping them separate for site-by-site analysis) and I see that, even though I'm more than $500 down from where I would be in Sklansky dollars in all-in situations, over all sites I'm actually up a few bucks. This doesn't allow for the in-play buckets of shit that can get thrown at you (Had a KK cracked by A9s when his flush hit river, for example, but there was no-all-in), but it's a rough assessment.

PokerStars Game #9-max Seat
#1 is the button

Seat 1: Van Belle ($118 in chips)
Seat 2: johnsonck69 ($223.35 in chips)
Seat 3: Villain2 ($50 in chips)
Seat 4: Comarre ($93.40 in chips)
Seat 5: NikoTheLaus ($48.25 in chips)
Seat 6: lucky168168 ($459.50 in chips)
Seat 7: Plus_Jun ($171.80 in chips)
Seat 8: HERO ($102.05 in chips)
Seat 9: Villain1 ($134.30 in chips)

johnsonck69: posts small blind $0.50
Villain2: posts big blind $1

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to HERO [6♡; 6♣;]
Comarre: folds
NikoTheLaus: folds
lucky168168: folds
Plus_Jun: folds
HERO: raises $2 to $3
Villain1: calls $3

Villain1 is very loose-aggressive, about 60%/30%.

Van Belle: folds
johnsonck69: folds
Villain2: raises $6 to $9

Villain2 is a more typical Pokerstars player, but he's also playing a half-stack. Let's put him at something like 12%/5%.

HERO: calls $6
Villain1: calls $6

$19 in pot

*** FLOP *** [A♠ T◊; 6◊;]

Gives me a set

Villain2: checks
HERO: bets $7
Villain1: raises $7 to $14
Villain2: raises $14 to $28
HERO: calls $21

I really can't see Villain1 resisting another raise here. In addition, I don't want to raise him out of the pot. I'm sure that my EV is greater if we get a three-way all-in.

Villain1: raises $14 to $42
Villain2: calls $13 and is all-in

All going according to plan, then. Villain2 might be AA, but he's more likely to be AK, following the (flawed) line of FFM that it's good to play a half-stack because then you can commit with TPTK. In fact it just gives you an opportunity to make a mistake that you wouldn't have made if you had a full stack.

HERO: raises $51.05 to $93.05 and is all-in
Villain1: calls $51.05

Looking good.

*** TURN *** [A♠ T◊; 6◊;] [8◊;]
*** RIVER *** [A♠ T◊; 6◊; 8◊;] [3♣;]

*** SHOW DOWN ***
HERO: shows [6♡; 6♣;] (three of a kind, Sixes)

Villain1: shows [A◊; J◊;] (a flush, Ace high)

Bollocks. :-)

Villain1 collected $104.10 from side pot
Villain1 collected $147.50 from main pot

(Villain2 did have AKo, by the way).