| Oct. 27th, 2004 @ 10:55 pm Cards, Day 2 |
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After coming home from p-chem lab today (I did a methanol vapor pressure experiment), I sat down to play a bit. I could only play for about 45 minuets because a friend called me to go out to his office party. It was pretty nice. There was good food and an open bar, and lots of thirty something women with which to flirt.
Anyway, the bad beat jackpot on party was hit, so I was back to playing regular 2/4. I usually look for tables with average pot sizes over 10 BB. While I was waitlisted for several 2/4 games, I noticed a 5/10 game with an average pot size of $104. The waitlist for this table was long, but I added myself just so I could check the average pot size again when there was a seat available.
I started playing 2/4 and had some really intense starting hands dealt to me. In the entire 45 minuet session I was dealt AA four times and KK and QQ once each. I’m not sure about my checkraise on this hand, since it failed to win extra bets like I expected.
Party Poker 2/4 Hold'em (8 handed) converter
Preflop: Hero is SB with 9d, Td.
UTG calls, 1 fold, MP1 raises, 2 folds, Button calls, Hero calls, 1 fold, UTG calls.
Flop: (9 SB) 7d, Qd, 2d (4 players)
Hero checks, UTG checks, MP1 bets, Button raises, Hero 3-bets, UTG folds, MP1 folds, Button calls.
Turn: (8 BB) 6c (2 players)
Hero bets, Button folds.
Final Pot: 9 BB
Main Pot: 8 BB, won by Hero.
Pot 2: 1 BB, returned to Hero.
I guess he wasn’t drawing to a flush if he folded on the turn. I can’t really decide between betting out and going for a checkraise on the flop in this situation. Also, once the button raises, should I just smooth call? I don’t think so, since it’s a pretty big hint that I'm slowplaying. Assuming I go for the checkraise, I have to make MP1 call two cold, since he could easily have a single big diamond. It would be ideal to cold call, and checkraise the button on the turn, forcing MP1 to call two big bets cold rather than two small bets, but I cant risk allowing the button to check behind on the turn for a free card with his lone large diamond (if he has one).
When a Checkraise Smells Funny
Party Poker 2/4 Hold'em (8 handed) converter
Preflop: Hero is MP1 with Jc, Kc.
2 folds, Hero raises, 4 folds, BB calls.
Flop: (4.50 SB) Ts, 4d, Ah (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets, BB raises, Hero 3-bets, BB calls.
Turn: (5.25 BB) 5c (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets, BB folds.
Final Pot: 6.25 BB
Main Pot: 5.25 BB, won by Hero.
Pot 2: 1 BB, returned to Hero.
I raised preflop, and when the ace comes on the flop, my heads up opponent checks to me and I bet representing the ace. Then he raises. One of two things is happening: he's finding out if the ace on the board makes me uncomfortable, or he’s flopped two pair or a set. I just didn't feel the second option was plausible enough. If he did indeed flop a hand like that against a heads up opponent who raised before the flop, he has to know that his hand is in very little danger of being beat by the river. Checkraising the turn (on the more expensive street) would clearly be the better option for him. Since he chose to checkraise the flop (on the less expensive street), I thought he was more apt to be testing weather or not the ace on the board scared me.
When the window popped up to tell me my 5/10 seat was available, the pot average was ~$112, so I decided to take a seat. I played pretty tight, but when I got dealt good hands, they tended to hold up. Here's one of the session's many AA hands:
Party Poker 5/10 Hold'em (10 handed) converter
Preflop: Hero is CO with As, Ad.
1 fold, UTG+1 calls, 2 folds, MP2 calls, MP3 raises, Hero 3-bets, Button calls, 2 folds, UTG+1 folds, MP2 folds, MP3 calls.
Flop: (12.40 SB) Ah, Jh, 3d (3 players)
MP3 checks, Hero bets, Button calls, MP3 calls.
Turn: (7.70 BB) 8s (3 players)
MP3 checks, Hero bets, Button calls, MP3 calls.
River: (10.70 BB) 8h (3 players)
MP3 checks, Hero bets, Button folds, MP3 folds.
Final Pot: 11.70 BB
Main Pot: 10.70 BB, won by Hero.
Pot 2: 1 BB, returned to Hero.
So with the new goals in place, here's how the quest is going:
Session Results
2/4:
+$61.75 (~1.5 table hours)
5/10:
+$146.50 (~0.5 table hours)
Status
$338.25 total earnings (4% to goal)
10.29 BB/hour
16.56 BB/100 hands
378 total hands
Bankroll: $2385.85
I know this sort of rate isn't sustainable, and if I'm going to get to my goal, I really have to put in more hours per day. It shouldn't be a problem to do so. |
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