Short post today. (relatively)
I played an Omaha 8 or better tournament the other day. A small buyin, only $5.50.
Jeff played too. I ran pretty good and made it to the final table handily. We were down to 3 handed when I got disconnected from the internet. Time Warner had an outage.
Bad timing right? At least it wasn't HU like vs that other guy a while ago.
I took down about $100 for that.
On Monday I went to Hollywood Park and played 20/40 stud with a half kill. I killed that too. Won about a dime, but lost around $400-500 in hold'em before I sat down at stud. As long as I'm up on the day right? I hadn't played stud in a while so I asked Jeff about some of the hands. This is probably the most interesting hand.
A quick note about stud. The cards in the parenthesis are the hole cards, and going left to right are the cards on my board. So the left most card is my door card, and then 4th street, 5th, and 6th. The 7th card is dealt face down. Stud is also a limit game, meaning the amount anyone can bet at any given time is set. On the 3rd card, a.k.a. 3rd street, and 4th street there is a $20 bet, and on 5th, 6th and 7th street, it is a $40 bet. Despite it sounding like a bigger game than 5/10 no limit hold'em, it's actually a smaller game.
A kill means that when someone wins a pot X big, the stakes for the next pot go up. In this case the stakes go up to 30/60 since its half again as big. Hence a half kill.
We are playing a kill pot. I'm not 100% sure on the suits but I know if it was like 3 tone or 2 tone.
The bring in is on my left. He posts $5 with a 2 showing.
Weak tighty calls with Qc up.
Bad short stack fish raises with 7d up.
Mediocre player calls with something up (not a scary card) 5 maybe?
I have (8h 8s)Th and reraise to $60.
The bring in folds (He is a teacher at LMU apparently. More on that later.)
(X X)Qc calls two bets lol.
(X X) 7d puts the remainder in. It's $75 total.
(X X) 5x calls.
I can't reraise, so I call.
(X X) Qc 2s
(X X) 7d Ah (all in)
(X X) 5x Jx
(8s 8h) Th 7s
It checks around. I declined to bet into such a bad board.
(X X) Qc 2s 5c
(X X) 7d Ah X (all in)
(X X) 5x Jx X
(8s 8h) Th 7s Ts
I bet out with my two pair. Qc calls.
(X X) Qc 2s 5c 9c
(X X) 7d Ah X X(all in)
(8d 8h) Th 7s Ts Kd
I bet again and get raised. Uglyyyyyyyyyy. I don't think Mr. Weak tighty raises a worse hand. I know I have 4 outs to a boat, since none of them came on the board, so I call one more bet.
River 8c.
Lol.
My hand (88) T 7 T K (8)
I check, he thinks then checks behind. I wanted to c/r there, but he didn't give me the chance.
I table my boat and scoop the pot. He had a flush.
I run good.
So the teacher teaches Math at LMU apparently. He might join us in our home games. We'll have to see. He seems quite solid, and we both came up a lot at stud.
Yesterday, I played $100nl deep online with Winston and John. The blinds were $0.50/$1. John and I sat down first and got the table started. It was a CRAZY night. Wow John decided he was going to outplay me. Now you get to see the hand histories. Note my stack size each hand.
We were playing a pretty normal HU match at first. This is when it started to get crazy.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3265409
Step 2 to making John dump 10 buyins at 100nl.
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It's not hard to outplay a calling station. Just valuebet.
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Honestly this hand I was gonna c/c down with Ace high since that was a good flop. But actually hitting the Ace and then seeing 4 diamonds roll off probably means I should fold, since John is definitely capable of valuebetting any hand that can beat a pair of Aces. He probably thought I wouldn't fold an Ace (he was right as you can see), and would valuebet super thin there. In retrospect, I think this was an easy fold.
Check/call river or bet out? Not sure here. John said he had an 8.
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It's hard to outplay a calling station.
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Honestly, I dunno what I was think this hand. I just really had a sick gut feeling I should call. My initial thought was actually to 4bet preflop, and then call a 5bet shove. I dunno what the right line is here. We've reached the point where our cards matter less than what level we're thinking on.
This hand is just flat out hilarious. I snap called his shove.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3262947
Winston finally sits down and I start taking his money too.
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John said he put me exactly on the hand I had, and then shoved. LOL
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This one was kinda wierd. I'm not really sure what to make of it. If he bets the turn I'm in a pretty sick spot.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3265521
This is one of the few times I actually folded a pair to John. I'm not really sure if I should call or not, its super marginal. I did valuebet really thin, since I fully expected to get looked up by Ace high or even worse. I also thought he might bluff and value raise this too. I might've been better off c/c ing.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3265528
This one was bad. I should've gone with my read and folded, but I thought this could be a really good spot for John to make a bluff raise.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3265539
My strategy for Hold'Em is so simple.
RUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN GOOOOOOOOOOOD
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Run Like The Sun
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WTF I get no respect.
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This one is kinda interesting. I don't think John had it (not that I ever did), but like I honestly think if I flat/3bet, he might 4bet me with complete air. I don't know if I can call that. Flatting twice seems horrendous. I think I have to fold.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3265574
I bought a bunch of books lately.
Elements of Poker by Tommy Angelo
Read'Em and Reap by Joe Navarro (and Hellmuth I guess)
What Every Body is Saying by Joe Navarro (He is ex-FBI interrogator I think)
Pot Limit Omaha by Jeff Hwang
Ace on the River by Barry Greenstein.
And I still have to read for school too. Lol.
I'll see you across the felt.
Bryce
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