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Hi guys. Just wanted to share a couple hands from last nights session.
This is coming off of last weeks really bad session. I literally had to sit down with myself, review my hands, told myself I can never tilt again, and talked to my girlfriend about my tilting issue. I made her a promise, to never tilt again, no matter what. To ensure I never tilt, I took note of my tilt triggers (which are 5) and told myself to get up and take a little break from the table if I start to feel my tilt creeping up.
Hero stack: 750
Hero hand: 56h
Hero position: BTNVillian Stack: 200
Villain Hand: QQhc
Villain position: UTGPreflop Action:
V1 opens to 15, folds to hero who callsFlop: As 5c 6d
V1 checks, Hero 35, V1 callsTurn: Ac
check, checkRiver: 5d
V1 bets 15, hero raises to 55, V1 callsVillain in this hand was from last weeks session. Who is one of the villains that put me on tilt. When he opened utg, I was confident that the he was at the top of his range: QQ+, AQ, AK. He doesn’t raise with AJ, and I have seen him raise with JJ a few times, but he likes to limp-call with them. I call preflop with position and hoping I can hit the flop hard.
When he checked the flop, I wasn’t ready to take any hands away from his range. If he had AA, he always check-calls it. Even though, with the ace out there, it eliminates 4 combos of AA in his holds. He doesn’t slow play top pair though, so I took out all of his strong ace holdings. Leaving him with virtually pocket pairs.
The turn was an interesting card. My two pair is now counterfeited or he made quads. I was not in the mood to get fancy on this street, with this board.
When villain checked the turn, I knew I was behind now, and didn’t want to bluff him off his hand.
The river just made my day. The action helped my confidence. He leads out, and I recognize that as a marginal hand betting out. I rule out Quads at this point. I took my time and tried to figure out how much of a raise he would call. I decided on half pot at the moment, and the number I came up with at the table was 55. He snap calls. After the hand, the villain thought, that his hand was good and that he had counterfeited me, he never thought call his raise with 56. This gave me a clue of my perceived imaged at the table. I’ll have to keep this in mind for tonight’s session, as they may view me as a LAG now.
This was a fun hand, and I was happy with my read. I’m a little disappointed that I may have left more chips on the table, but I’ll take the experience over that chips for now.
I think your decision making has gotten a lot better since you’ve been posting here – it seems like you’re really improving as a player. I think you’d hold your own at a 2/5 – you just have to be willing to lose a buy-in there, which was the hardest thing for me when I first stepped up. Yeah, the players target you and are more intimidating, but if you can hold your own for a session they will usually back off.
Really good read on the river – that is quite often a blocker bet. I’m surprised he snap called there, he must have really put you on 77 or the like. This is a definite call, but I’m not sure how often I raise here given how few hands that you beat can actually call.
My only advice is on the turn. That Ace really limits his ability to have one. You put him on a really tight range – is he really the type of player to be checking AK or AQ twice? If he has AA, so be it, but there’s only one combo of that left. I think an A is leading out here at some point given the flush draw on board (unless he has AK/AQ or diamonds, but even then I think he bets it). I think you have a lot of aces in your range here once that second one hits and he checks twice (and maybe more aces than he has at this point). You can have a lot of Ax suited combos – pretty much all of them. I like another bet here on the turn and keep control of the hand. If he calls here I pretty much shut down on all rivers.
Hi John. I want to thank you for your encouraging words. Its very hard to come by, since this game is technically viewed as gambling. So to have someone provide positive feedback, means more than my opponents stacks.
I value sites like this, as I am learning and trying improve my game in a “vacuum” here, meaning no one to talk to about the game and bounce hands off each other. I should really thank Brad for putting up this site as well.
As for 2/5, I’m gonna wait to build up a decent BR to sit in on it. Plus, I have a few leaks that I need to plug up before I move up in stakes. The main leak is tilting, specifically “entitlement tilt”. I’ll need more hours of poker to keep it under control.
I have notes on the villain. He will always slow play a set, without exception. I know from observing his play and being involved in a previous hand with him. However, he will c-bet an Ace with a good kicker. So on the turn, I was confident he didn’t have an Ace or pocket Aces.
I was disappointed on the turn, knowing that I was counterfeited. But I think that is the value of an over-pair on this type of board.
I’m not sure how he would react if I bet on the turn though. He did say to me, that he thought I got counterfeited on the turn and that I was trying to get him off the hand on the river. I’m inclined to think he would’ve called the turn, and I would’ve conceded the pot if I didn’t fill up. Maybe I’m still gun shy and didn’t think about my perceived range.
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