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Hi Larson. For me I'm folding all three of these hands. I'm not getting the right odds on the flush draws as I think I'm behind, and these just don't hit often enough I don't think. With hand 1 I can't be sure I'm ahead even if the flush hits. Hand 2 is a fold as you've said the player is tight and its too expensive to play mid pocket pairs I think.
Less limping, more expensive to play hands
Better reads by opponents
3 betting with wider ranges
More aggressive play
Punish any signs of weakness
Some of the tables the max buy ins are 200 bbs so you can win or lose a lot more as the players are deeper stacked.
Overall I did quite well and made more than I lost, but I think it might have ended being expensive to carry on playing through a bad run. I think its partly in the mind, if I play when I don't feel confident I lose more.
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Been busy as I was due a phone upgrade and decided it was time to ditch the steam powered nokia, and get a Galaxy S3. Spent a bit of time researching between that & the iphone, & then even more time trying to swap contacts messages & calendar between phones.
Spent tonight sorting through 5000 songs on itunes which I hope is now transferring to the phone as I type.
No poker for a week or so now, as I'm off to Turkey for a weeks golf woo hoo ! Sunshine at last.
Have fun @ the tables, be lucky and see u all soon.
had same problem posting hands for ages so here goes...
go to top of this page
my sky poker
hand history
find hand
click bar on right (down to bottom)
and bottom bar (over to the right)
click mouse(goes blue)
from bottom right of hand move up to top left of hand
click mouse(right side for r/hander) and copy
i now simply press x top right of screen
then from lobby load up forum again,and go to where i want to post
right click again and press paste.
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dev
Drag your icon to copy the whole hand history, press copy then paste it!
In this hand here, opponent has just sat down at the table, I have no reads at all.
I'm in the bb with pocket queens. It is raised 4 times BB then Button reraises 4 times the initial raise to64p total. Given this massive bet it looks like Aces, Kings Maybe Ace King, though i doubt it. Possibly this could be getting done with Jacks Tens or Queens, don't really think opponent is making a move.
I thought i would call to see a flop, flop comes down Ace high opponent over bets the pot on the flop. I'm quite happy with my fold there is very little i am beating here. Do you think it's a bad call preflop? The reason i didn't ship preflop was I don't know the opponent, and so easily at this level abig bet like this signifies aces or kings.
Edit; I don't know if i can fold preflop here, maybe there is an argument for it. I've just checked out opponent on sharkscope, he looks like a decent enough player. If the flop doesn't come down Ace or King high, i'm probably still not loving my hand. The only thing i am beating here is a bluff. I dont see him betting that big with pocket Aces, surely he would check it to me if he had this strong a hand? If he had Kings the Ace would surely have slowed the action down? The only real hand that makes any sense is AK??
Reached £100 profit on saturday afernoon
but yesterday i decided to play with the bigger boys on 25/50p tables and got spanked!!! LOL
BUSTED!!!
Flopped trips 10's, flop A 10 10 , 3 players me to act first so i checked and so did they, turn a 6 so i bet and they both called, river a 4 i bet and one called, the other shoved putting me all in which i called... Pocket 4's
Oh well deposit £10 on thursday and start this challenge again
Clint
come and find me on 5/10p...easy money for you. lol
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dev
if you have 'google chrome' just uninstall it'
this might be your problem, as others have said.
i had it and my hands wouldn't post properly.someone told me to uninstall it and it worked fine afterwards.
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dev
Sorry, you'll have to wait a bit longer before you can analyse my bad play lol
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Sharkscope doesn't include cash games so it may not be a reliable indicator (by that I mean my cash game is better than sharkscope might have you believe honest)
So I played about 45 mins at NL4 tonight. This is a straightforward situation but I'm wondering what the regs at this level would do with this hand on the flop. I read alot of things in the clinic about playing this level and I wonder what NL4 folks think is the best way to get value.
Simple question, then: Bet or check back on the flop and why?
I've only been playing for a few minutes so all I can tell you about Robin is that he's yet to get out of line. I've not seen him get into big pots with ropey hands and he's only showndown "playable" hands. Not seen a huge amount of aggression from him but he hasn't been calling down light either.
Calcafold would bet 20/21p.
Devonfish would have min raised pre but as played will bet 9p
Tintin would bet 18p
Craigcu12 would read through his 13 paragaraphs of notes on this villain before deciding wether or not to bet (and how much), but end up 'time out checking' just after paragraph 4.
lol @dohhhhhhs response.
standard c bet spot for me here, 75% of pot so around the 20-22p mark.
the reason, i c bet here a lot wether i hit here or miss completely and always to the figures above, so for me its keeps the balance going for myself.
you say they havent been calling down light but i still think theres worse out there that will see another street, and if they are semi competent they could see my bet plainly as a c bet because im on the button. if im met with a call i can evaluate the turn then take a more pot control line if i think the turn is abad card for me or if im raised then its a fold because of the notes.
im a big believer of bet, bet, bet til the action tells you otherwise, so many players are too passive and will call down because they dont have a clue where they are at so its more about punishing them. of course this can catch you out at times and you end up value betting yourself but at times sometimes its best to get action in the future.
yesterday was pretty rubbish so much so i never played once the football started last night. lost £8 in the last 2 days, small win monday then a loss yesterday. dont think i was ever ahead at any point yesterday and at one point i was just trading bins. couldnt win a hand aipf when dominating til i had KK v Larson's QQ (sorry mate i thought you were huge fav there the way i was running)
And it would be for information no i mean value haha
Fair play to you, firstly thats very funny.
Secondly, you are about right with my bet amount. Maybe dont need to bet as much a I would, but always bet it
Reason....errrrm we have top pair and we arent exactly going to get value by checking.......
Is betting really a better option against a player that doesn't call down light? He's going to fold all his non-Ace hands to a bet. If we check, do we not get value from a wider range on later streets?
I didn't think there'd be many advocates of checking on this thread. Which is perhaps something to think about.
Its 4nl and making money is simple.
Bet lots when you are likely to have the best hand
Bet a little bit when you might have the best hand
Dont bet when you are beat
Its really that simple.
Dont try and overcomplicate something that is very simple. worse hands will pay you off day in day out, so bet bet bet