One day left in July. I am working on a lot of things poker wise and feel this has been the best month yet. My game has grown and the improvments I have made are in large part to my crew and the work we did together. Unfortunately some contributed more then others and you know who you are. In response to this me and 4 others from my crew have created a new closer nit crew who will look to improve at an excellerated pace and really take over the poker world. Are new blog can be found at http://unrecklessforce2b.blogspot.com/ it is still in the beginning stages though. I apologize to those who arent included and I wish all of my ex-crew members good fortune in the coming months. I will still be posting here but my blog will be more life oriented and taking on its original form as a place to put my thoughts. If anyone wants to talk poker please Aim me at Barne69224@aol.com as I am always open to talk poker with anyone any stake or skill level.
I played a nice long split session last night and have two hands for discussion. The first hand comes from a sweat I did with Dice. This kid is good and has some serious potential and I am glad to say he is part of the unrecklessforce2b. I took Dices line here and I feel this might be a 100BB stack play. Playing 200BB deep is a different feel and game, One that I would love to see more of from the CR pros in video.
The hand: http://www.pokerhand.org/?1319995 villian is 67/17/.9 I dont believe at the time his numbers were such. They were showing at 43/2 maybe when this hand played out. Obviuosly sample size is small. When raised on flop I think most times a call is correct but I almost felt if I 3bet this spot I define my hand and am done. This probably is not the best choice as i am folding out worse hands and building a pot if I am beat or he has a draw. Also I will OOP for the rest of the hand. The turn play is where it gets sticky. I think this is a clear fold. Dice suggested a call as he felt villian was bluffing a draw. We had trouble narrowing his range here. In discussion with Alex(dwarrior) he makes a great point that his turn bet narrows his range as most draws would check behind. So in essence his turn bet screams fold 99 is done. I call and check the river and he bets half pot. Easy fold right? Can I call? What do I beat?
Other hand: http://www.pokerhand.org/?1320022 villian is 19/9/.76 at the time I believe his PFR was lower like 7. I almost dumped preflop as I told Dice I felt villians range here was almost always ahead of AQ. I opt to call and I hit top pair on the flop. He leads (dont remember his cbet %) i decide to make a small 3x feeler raise and he calls. This is where I think I can go Jman and start to think what range villian thinks I have. He has me on I say AK-AT and PP that maybe hit a set as well as SC that flopped a Fdraw. I played real fast and check behind on the turn which may have been a mistake. Could I bet big here repping a set? I am ahead of all of villians range except AK so I might check and keep worse hands in. I have his range at JJ-AA with AK-AQ too. I doubt he plays this passive with AA or JJ. Now the river. Is there any value in betting? Essentially am I turning my hand into a bluff?
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I wish you all the best man. I really think you have the drive and potential to go very far in this game. In our 2 of 3 sweats together I've learned so much from you, it's just sick. I'm sorry I was not able to return the favor. I will have to get my sh*t in order first, then maybe our paths will cross again sometime in the (near) future. Until then, good luck donk-hunting!
99 hand - pretty horrible spot. I guess I fold on the turn here as I can't stand anymore heat and my hand isn't going to get any better. The guy looks pretty passive post-flop so I think you can safely fold the turn. I'd fold the river for definite I think.
AQ hand - I think this is a good spot to just call pre-flop. This guy isn't raising much worse than AQ from UTG+1. You could 3-bet, but I prefer keeping the pot small and playing a pot in position against this guy.
I would normally just call on this flop and go from there. However, I think raising is the best play after thinking about it. If you just call, AJ and AK are going to carry on firing, but he may also bet worse into you as well (AT, KK). Raising gets you the information for an extra $12, rather than calling $14 on the turn and $30 on the river.
Once he calls, that's it for me. I'm checking this river behind as I think he has to have AK or KcQc. If you manage to show it down and win, all the better.
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