The Poker Thread

Oh! Well I guess turn was raised so that's not so bad but min raising isn't such a good idea. Not sure what Gaz was trying to achieve there.

River is fine surely too given the size of the bet. I don't think it's total bad but it's on the looser end of what I might do. Probably raise bigger on turn or just fold turn. Or raise flop tbh.

Rex McGee wrote:Oh! Well I guess turn was raised so that's not so bad but min raising isn't such a good idea. Not sure what Gaz was trying to achieve there.

River is fine surely too given the size of the bet. I don't think it's total bad but it's on the looser end of what I might do. Probably raise bigger on turn or just fold turn. Or raise flop tbh.

Fold pre, Fold the flop, defo fold the turn and fold the river. Ok he shows up with j3 but to suggest anything else is being very results orientated.

Only just saw this was 7 handed but I still don't think it's terrible. Definitely never folding river as played.

Aaron 1/7 in a $20 freezeout.

Rex McGee wrote:Only just saw this was 7 handed but I still don't think it's terrible. Definitely never folding river as played.

Aaron 1/7 in a $20 freezeout.

So your getting 4/1. Ok but he's donked the wet flop cb the turn then called the min raise and led out again on the river which looks like value.

Not busted club or straight draw? With no info I call. Marginal spot early ends up giving SO much info for later. Got to be a fair bit of clubbage in that range. If I value bet I bet way more.

EDIT: Aaron 5/5

The pub game this afternoon went quite well, it was a great atmosphere and as they only play one game the blinds didn't increase quite so rapidly. 27 people entered and I finished 3rd with 66<AT. 24 of the players had put £2 into the pot for a 'long laster' bet and when we got 4-handed we agreed to split it so we had £12 each. We also got some free pub grub halfway through the game, so I'll probably make that tournament a regular thing

When I was playing the pub league games before, I didn't have a car and so I could only get to one of the games every week and unless I won it there no chance of reaching the final on points. Now though I can play several games a week at different venues and should be able to make the final this month even though I've only played 3 games so far.

Ecno wrote:

Rex McGee wrote:Oh! Well I guess turn was raised so that's not so bad but min raising isn't such a good idea. Not sure what Gaz was trying to achieve there.

River is fine surely too given the size of the bet. I don't think it's total bad but it's on the looser end of what I might do. Probably raise bigger on turn or just fold turn. Or raise flop tbh.

Fold pre, Fold the flop, defo fold the turn and fold the river. Ok he shows up with j3 but to suggest anything else is being very results orientated.

The Q9s was definitely not my normal play but I had a very tight image and hadn't been playing many hands so thought that wasn't a bad hand to raise with pre-flop. I forgot to mention that the opponent was spewing chips (his stats were something like 80/60) and I was confident he was behind, maybe with an ace or a flush draw. The river bet did throw me a little but I was getting 4-1 and against that opponent I am good 20% of the time.

Edit: The min raise on the turn is pretty awful if I put him on a flush draw. I'm not sure what I was thinking but it was definitely an opponent specific play.

Generally I've just been sticking to ABC poker. The QQ I probably should have 4bet pre especially against a complete unknown but I don't think flatting is terrible particularly when I'm under-rolled for 10nl.

In the past I've always ended up hating cash whenever I've given it a chance but at the moment it would suit my schedule much better than MTTs. So i'm going to give it a really good chance this time and now that I have two monitors I could potentially make some decent money even at the small stakes if I play several tables. I'm only 2-tabling at the moment though while i'm under-rolled and getting used to cash games again.

Why am I playing like an idiot.

Rex McGee wrote:I think that's quite a big claim tbh. Obv you are good but your sample size is so small. Also if you factor in your stars and tilt accounts:

Total games: 396
Net profit: 7756
Avg profit: 19.59
Avg stake: 41.39
ROI: 47% (note net ROI not avg roi)

I think if anyone decides to take poker as a career choice then they need SOLID evidence of their ability. I would definitely not go in without a huuuuge roll.

EDIT: 5th in the 6max $25 RB for $500.

EDIT: If you go pro can we prop bet against net profit $120k?

I've just realised this doesn't include my Titan Poke win under ShutupSitDown

So are we prop betting?

Aaron is a final table machine today with 4 final tables and more cashes. 5 cashes in last 8 MTTs.

I won this though which was cool:

So I was short-stacked and on the bubble of a tourney when the only guy shorter than me gets it all in pre and catches a royal.

Won my league game last night, and that was despite having KK < AA first hand.

I might have to build up my roll on ipoker as those MTTs with only around 100 players would suit me perfectly. My $30 on Fulltilt is now $75 so cash game is going ok so far, but I've only played for 2-3hrs total. Plenty of time for me to explode and donk it all off.

I'm going to play another pub poker game today as there is a new venue which is only a 5min walk away, so I can leave my car and have a few drinks this time.
Plus they play two games tonight, so it's basically double points.

In other news they shut down my local poker club. Bad times.

Promptly wrote jokerstars in the chat and then left.

NH GG TY

Main Event eps 7 and 8 are up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU2dzZPZYJU

Darvin!

Was having a bit of a disaster session at the cash tables but managed to bring it back thanks to this guy:


Again it's not my usual play but this guy was playing 75% of hands and raising 55% of the time. Whenever he saw a flop he would bet it and continue to bet every street no matter what his cards were. With that AK hand I was going to throw it away but he made it cheaper than I expected and so I felt it was worth seeing some more cards.

I don't really like your play on the second hand. It's fine whilst you're running well, but I think you're normally wasting money there IMO. Plus, not raising the turn with a set? You've got to try and get in some value in cash, surely?

Nova wrote:I don't really like your play on the second hand. It's fine whilst you're running well, but I think you're normally wasting money there IMO. Plus, not raising the turn with a set? You've got to try and get in some value in cash, surely?

Like I say, I would usually give up the AK after the flop and definitely after the turn but against that opponent I knew there was a fair chance that I was still good and he made it cheap to see more cards, and I still had outs if he had hit a pair. The other thing is that he was betting ridiculously high amounts when he actually had good cards. Pre-flop he would raise to 10BB with AQ+, JJ+ and then shove the flop. His small bets did make me wonder if he was getting value from a monster, but then I thought he'd do the opposite and bet huge if he actually had something good.

With the 33 I knew 100% that if I just called he would bet every street, he was literally doing it everytime (see the AK hand where he did it with 34o). On the turn I did think I should raise but thought he would fold to it (as he has folded a few times before if you reraise him) so I decided to just call and if he made another pot-sized bet on the river then it would be easy to get it all-in. Unfortunately his river bet was smaller than I expected so maybe a turn bet would have worked better. The river ace might've scared him off but I think he just had literally nothing again.

I've actually been playing very tight solid ABC poker, it's just against the maniac opponents where I play a little differently and I post those hands here because they are a bit different and more interesting. I don't play that way all the time.