Tuesday, February 10, 2009

hands of the day aka the value of checking back

I had just lost a large pot to this guy making a fairly loose call down with a flopped top two when he had flopped the nut flush. It certainly wasn't a great call, but I thought a quick 3bet might not get a lot of credit. When he 4-bets he's bluffing a decent amount of the time, we're flipping a decent amount of the time, and he has AK, AA, KK, QQ a decent amount of the time which have me crushed. If I get it in against his range I'm not doing great, but I can flat pf and outplay him on a lot of flops. It is a play I only used rarely, but in this case I felt that this villain would play very straight forward postflop and I'd know what to do. anway so here is the hand:

Full Tilt Poker Game #10543166780: Table Hollis (deep) - $2/$4 - No Limit Hold'em - 2:53:24 ET - 2009/02/10
Seat 1: Bunkbeds ($439)
Seat 2: cjm627 ($800)
Seat 3: TuCKeRo ($800)
Seat 4: RikaKazak ($437.50)
Seat 6: luckyboy7 ($680.80)
Seat 7: ilfantedefiori ($797)
Seat 8: themightyjim ($404)
Seat 9: PoorNapoleon ($1,381.80), is sitting out
Bunkbeds posts the small blind of $2
cjm627 posts the big blind of $4
The button is in seat #8
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to themightyjim [Qc As]
PoorNapoleon has returned
RikaKazak folds
luckyboy7 folds
ilfantedefiori raises to $14
themightyjim raises to $48
Bunkbeds folds
stoney1969 sits down
cjm627 has 15 seconds left to act
cjm627 adds $4
cjm627 folds
stoney1969 adds $200
ilfantedefiori raises to $120
themightyjim has 15 seconds left to act
themightyjim has requested TIME
themightyjim calls $72
*** FLOP *** [Ad 7d Tc]
ilfantedefiori checks
themightyjim has 15 seconds left to act
themightyjim checks
*** TURN *** [Ad 7d Tc] [2h]
ilfantedefiori checks
themightyjim bets $88
ilfantedefiori calls $88
*** RIVER *** [Ad 7d Tc 2h] [Td]
ilfantedefiori checks
themightyjim bets $196, and is all in
ilfantedefiori calls $196
*** SHOW DOWN ***
themightyjim shows [Qc As] two pair, Aces and Tens
ilfantedefiori mucks
themightyjim wins the pot ($811) with two pair, Aces and Tens
ilfantedefiori adds $7
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $814 | Rake $3
Board: [Ad 7d Tc 2h Td]
Seat 1: Bunkbeds (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 2: cjm627 (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 3: TuCKeRo is sitting out
Seat 4: RikaKazak didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: luckyboy7 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 7: ilfantedefiori mucked [Jh Js] - two pair, Jacks and Tens
Seat 8: themightyjim (button) showed [Qc As] and won ($811) with two pair, Aces and Tens
Seat 9: PoorNapoleon is sitting out

Oh, and he snap-called the river which is LOL-bad.

after the hand he had these nice things to say about me:

ilfantedefiori: fakin retard
ilfantedefiori: go to hell donkey
ilfantedefiori: just DIE
themightyjim: lol
themightyjim: my moniez wanted to come home
ilfantedefiori: u're the worst idiot ever
themightyjim: you are too kind my friend
ilfantedefiori: shut the fak up

it's always nice when people are friendly at the tables. :)

1 comment:

Matthew Feldman said...

Lolz they can't bear it when you check back top pair. Folk never chat anymore in my games but I see this situation flip people out all the time.