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I played my first session in about a month and a half. I had two hands that I wanted to see what people think. Both are bet sizing questions on if I could have gotten more value from worse hands. The venue I was at was packed. Between a $1000 per hour high hand promo and the other casino in town being closed there was at one point a 70 person wait list for 1/2, 60 for 2/2 and 50 for 1/3. The casino was a 25 table room trying to handle what is normally a packed room plus a 50 table casino demand so there was no moving to a different table.
Hand 1. $200 effective, I have KdJh and raise to $12 and I get 1 caller in late position. No special notes on the villain.
Flop $28: 9JJ with 2 clubs. Flop trips and a very wet board. I cbet 50% pot for $15 and villain calls.
Turn $58: Qc. Flush and straights now get there and I think I need some opinions. I bet $35 (my default sizing is just 1/2 pot and bet that with almost all of my hands except on the river where I will vary with going for value and bluffs. Tell me what you think about this turn action and sizing. Villain calls.
River $128: Kc. 4 to a flush, and 10 makes a straight and I have the 2nd nuts, the virtual since villain didn’t reraise preflop. I bet $55, villain calls and I scoop. Never saw what he had.Hand 2: $250 effective with 99, the suit isn’t important as you will see. The main villain is very aggressive but smart about it. At this stake he seems good about sensing when someone is weak and then just betting until they fold but he will show up with really strange hands, like betting multiple streets with just 3rd pair and winning, he had something like $1500 in front of him and will show up with the nuts every so often. He will defend his BB and straddle with just about any 2 to any reasonable sizing. I had played a few hands with him, mainly folding to his aggression for cheap but caught him once with 2nd pair medium kicker and it being good. He is almost the definition of a LAG.
Pre-flop: MP limps $2, I raise to $12 with 99 on the button, BB calls and limper folds.
Flop $30: 6c8d9d. Top set on a draw heavy board. Villain checks and since I know he will defend so wide I want to give him a price to come along so I down bet to $10, not sure if this is a spot where I should be down betting since there are so many hands that could call at least one street and so many draws that could come in and I have none. Villain calls.
Turn $50: Td. the flush gets in but I don’t think he had to have just a flush draw. I feel like he could have a pair expecting me to be betting open enders. Villain checks I bet $15 and he calls.
River $80: Ts. Again I have the virtual nuts the river was kind. Villain checks, I bet $45 and he calls, I win and he doesn’t show.This was a fairly straight forward session. I have started bluffing a lot less and bluffing when it is believable. There was only 1 table of 2/2 and when I showed up there were seemingly 3 pro/semi pro players there and a couple of old men who play poker for something to do. I was by far the youngest non pro looking player there which I try to use to my advantage. Eventually because there was only one table of 2/2 and the shortest wait list for a spread limit game was about 20 deep with only 1 or 2 tables going I left once we got filled with about 2 more proish types. Played for about 5.5-6 hours and left up about half a buyin. Still negative quite a bit for the year but in total, I’ve played maybe 12 times.
Hand 1 – was the river a King and you boated up? I’m assuming that’s the case since you said you have second nuts.
That casino is playing crazy now since all that action from the closed casino is there. I was there Monday and games were playing much bigger.Flop I probably size up a bit. You have a strong hand on a wet board, and you are very likely to have the best hand. Villains are likely to have a lot of draws here and will call a bigger bet or have missed and fold to about anything. I’d go more like 20-25.
Turn – Second work card in the deck for you. You have outs no matter what, but still a terrible card. I think checking here or betting 67% pot are both fine play. I might lean towards checking because of how much this should help his range.
River – I’m betting here, the amount depends on the opponent. I’ve had success bombing the pot lately, but I don’t know how well you get paid here. If we think the opponent has the nut flush we can bet big, but otherwise we need to keep it in the 67-75% pot range. I guess I’d probably go for a more value type bet and try for 75% pot.
I used to bet 50% pot across all streets, but lately I’ve up that on the turn and river (50% on most flops is fine, especially heads up). I tend to bet closer to 67-75% pot on most streets, while incorporating more full pot and over pot bets on rivers. This seems to work better at the 3/5 than it did at 2/3, so maybe that works better at higher stakes. But going bigger in general has been more profitable for me.
Hand 2 – I don’t like the down bet here. This board has all sorts of draws that will call you – JT, QT, QJ, diamonds, 67, 87, A7, etc. I’m betting at least 15-20.
Turn – I’m betting here planning to check most rivers. Probably $30-45 range.
River – this seems like a good candidate to bomb 90%+ pot. He should hit this more than you, and you fullhouse is somewhat disguised. Go for big value against a station.
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