A cool limit hand
Jul. 28th, 2005 04:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peterbirksAbdul rules!
Just as I was writing about how Abdul’s style wasn’t for me, how I didn’t like the increased volatility it implied, how I didn’t think it worked for the kind of games I played, I go and do this.... By way of explanation, I had won a nice pot the previous hand when raising with 98s and hitting a straight on the turn. So, I thought, let’s try an experiment....
POKERSTARS HOLD'EM LIMIT ($5/$10)
Table 'Pegasus' Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: Zoltan23 ($150.50 in chips)
Seat 2: slimkim ($514 in chips)
Seat 3: Wrtlprmft ($254 in chips)
Seat 4: Penguin44 ($296 in chips)
Seat 5: Dr Vinkman ($194 in chips)
Seat 6: DrDre_Snoop ($311 in chips)
Seat 7: Birks ($497 in chips)
Seat 8: greenbuds ($7 in chips)
Seat 9: moneytaker83 ($26 in chips)
Seat 10: FrankieC ($361 in chips)
Wrtlprmft: posts small blind $2
Penguin44: posts big blind $5
Dealt to Birks [Td Th]
Dr Vinkman: folds
DrDre_Snoop: folds
Birks: calls $5
greenbuds: calls $5
moneytaker83: folds
FrankieC: folds
Zoltan23: folds
slimkim: raises $5 to $10
Wrtlprmft: folds
Penguin44: folds
Birks: raises $5 to $15
greenbuds: calls $2 and is all-in
slimkim: calls $5
A limp reraise with TT? Well, that’s mixing it up! Abdul recommends this play with as little as 88. I know that the button is quite a loose-aggressive player, and a raise from him on the button looks to me like an attempt to steal the initiative. I hope that the limp-reraise caught him offguard.
*** FLOP *** [Jd 6d 5h]
I can live with this flop.
Birks: bets $5
slimkim: calls $5
*** TURN *** [Jd 6d 5h] [7h]
Betting the turn is almost compulsory. My opponent really should raise or fold here, unless he is on a genuine value-calling draw
Birks: bets $10
slimkim: calls $10
*** RIVER *** [Jd 6d 5h 7h] [7c]
Birks: checks
slimkim: bets $10
Birks: calls $10
Has he got a genuine hand? I can’t really see what he can have. With something like AJ he isn’t strong enough to slowplay me. A pair of sixes or fives in the hole are the only rational holdings I can think of.
*** SHOW DOWN ***
slimkim: shows [3s As] (a pair of Sevens)
Birks: shows [Td Th] (two pair, Tens and Sevens)
Birks collected $64 from side pot
greenbuds: mucks hand
Birks collected $27 from main pot
So, well done Abdul. I reckon that if I raise here pre-flop, I win precisely $7 from the blinds. As it was, I won $51. But it's not a style that I would like to make a habit of!
Just as I was writing about how Abdul’s style wasn’t for me, how I didn’t like the increased volatility it implied, how I didn’t think it worked for the kind of games I played, I go and do this.... By way of explanation, I had won a nice pot the previous hand when raising with 98s and hitting a straight on the turn. So, I thought, let’s try an experiment....
POKERSTARS HOLD'EM LIMIT ($5/$10)
Table 'Pegasus' Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: Zoltan23 ($150.50 in chips)
Seat 2: slimkim ($514 in chips)
Seat 3: Wrtlprmft ($254 in chips)
Seat 4: Penguin44 ($296 in chips)
Seat 5: Dr Vinkman ($194 in chips)
Seat 6: DrDre_Snoop ($311 in chips)
Seat 7: Birks ($497 in chips)
Seat 8: greenbuds ($7 in chips)
Seat 9: moneytaker83 ($26 in chips)
Seat 10: FrankieC ($361 in chips)
Wrtlprmft: posts small blind $2
Penguin44: posts big blind $5
Dealt to Birks [Td Th]
Dr Vinkman: folds
DrDre_Snoop: folds
Birks: calls $5
greenbuds: calls $5
moneytaker83: folds
FrankieC: folds
Zoltan23: folds
slimkim: raises $5 to $10
Wrtlprmft: folds
Penguin44: folds
Birks: raises $5 to $15
greenbuds: calls $2 and is all-in
slimkim: calls $5
A limp reraise with TT? Well, that’s mixing it up! Abdul recommends this play with as little as 88. I know that the button is quite a loose-aggressive player, and a raise from him on the button looks to me like an attempt to steal the initiative. I hope that the limp-reraise caught him offguard.
*** FLOP *** [Jd 6d 5h]
I can live with this flop.
Birks: bets $5
slimkim: calls $5
*** TURN *** [Jd 6d 5h] [7h]
Betting the turn is almost compulsory. My opponent really should raise or fold here, unless he is on a genuine value-calling draw
Birks: bets $10
slimkim: calls $10
*** RIVER *** [Jd 6d 5h 7h] [7c]
Birks: checks
slimkim: bets $10
Birks: calls $10
Has he got a genuine hand? I can’t really see what he can have. With something like AJ he isn’t strong enough to slowplay me. A pair of sixes or fives in the hole are the only rational holdings I can think of.
*** SHOW DOWN ***
slimkim: shows [3s As] (a pair of Sevens)
Birks: shows [Td Th] (two pair, Tens and Sevens)
Birks collected $64 from side pot
greenbuds: mucks hand
Birks collected $27 from main pot
So, well done Abdul. I reckon that if I raise here pre-flop, I win precisely $7 from the blinds. As it was, I won $51. But it's not a style that I would like to make a habit of!
