As8h: bet bigger on the turn so you can play for stacks on the river. the main source of profit at that level is getting value.
QdTd: why are you betting the river? Can you share your thought process? Fold is good.
AdJh: a little contradictory thought process as you are happy to take it down on the flop but on the turn, you suddenly want to extract max value when the turn hasn't changed anything. You do want to play for stack as it looks like you were starting with 50bb? Not sure what the action was on the flop, did you raise his $5 to $16 or just call? Make it slightly larger and def shove turn. Leaving $26 behind is really awkward on the river.
KK as shortstack: Sorry, but I just cannot see how this has solid logic? The advantage of being a shortstack is that you can push AI with all sorts of hand, punishing loose opens. You hate to see KK as a shortstack because it will have likely yielded a higher profit full stacked. The major reason to shortstack are bankroll considerations (which readers of your blog know is not a problem for you) and that you play with people that are equal or better than you, negating their edge. Shortstacking also introduces alot of variance as you are pushing smaller edges preflop. Wether you top up or not shouldn't be a hard rule, it should be part of overall gameflow considerations. Let's say you are at a 1-3 game with very loose/aggro players and you fall down to 50bb and your image is terrible, it's perfectly fine to not top up to 100bb if the other players are also equal or better in skill because it makes playing deep harder. OTOH, if you are in a game where everyone around is is worse (i.e. every table in Vegas at the 1/2 level) then you want to top up if you only fall 12bb below full stack as otherwise, 1-2 becomes almost unbeatable with rake considerations etc.
AdJd EP: I really don't like this play at all, you are essentially turning your hand into a bluff, AT is now mostly folding, you are flipping in the best case scenario and are a dog almost certainly with that preflop action. If your are deep and am not comfortable playing deep and there are tricky bigstacks (to your left?) then just table change unless there is a huge fish on the table who is raising blind preflop to $50 every hand.
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hand discussion and your rule about rebuying/shortstacking
Date: 2015-07-12 05:06 pm (UTC)QdTd: why are you betting the river? Can you share your thought process? Fold is good.
AdJh: a little contradictory thought process as you are happy to take it down on the flop but on the turn, you suddenly want to extract max value when the turn hasn't changed anything. You do want to play for stack as it looks like you were starting with 50bb? Not sure what the action was on the flop, did you raise his $5 to $16 or just call? Make it slightly larger and def shove turn. Leaving $26 behind is really awkward on the river.
KK as shortstack: Sorry, but I just cannot see how this has solid logic? The advantage of being a shortstack is that you can push AI with all sorts of hand, punishing loose opens. You hate to see KK as a shortstack because it will have likely yielded a higher profit full stacked. The major reason to shortstack are bankroll considerations (which readers of your blog know is not a problem for you) and that you play with people that are equal or better than you, negating their edge. Shortstacking also introduces alot of variance as you are pushing smaller edges preflop. Wether you top up or not shouldn't be a hard rule, it should be part of overall gameflow considerations. Let's say you are at a 1-3 game with very loose/aggro players and you fall down to 50bb and your image is terrible, it's perfectly fine to not top up to 100bb if the other players are also equal or better in skill because it makes playing deep harder. OTOH, if you are in a game where everyone around is is worse (i.e. every table in Vegas at the 1/2 level) then you want to top up if you only fall 12bb below full stack as otherwise, 1-2 becomes almost unbeatable with rake considerations etc.
AdJd EP: I really don't like this play at all, you are essentially turning your hand into a bluff, AT is now mostly folding, you are flipping in the best case scenario and are a dog almost certainly with that preflop action. If your are deep and am not comfortable playing deep and there are tricky bigstacks (to your left?) then just table change unless there is a huge fish on the table who is raising blind preflop to $50 every hand.