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The key to improving my results with AK/AQ type hands - just don't play it all!! lol
If nobody ever 3-bets without QQ/KK/AA then poker is going to become a very dull game... but perhaps I'm not giving people enough credit when I enter pots
"How to Play Ace-King in No-Limit Texas Hold'em
Ace-King, the Big Slick, is a big starting hand in No-Limit Texas Hold'em but it is still a drawing hand. It is a difficult hand to play and for many players, AK is often a big money loser in the long run. In fact, for this reason, some players don't play Ace-King at all.
Handling a Preflop Re-reraise
If you get re-reraised preflop, it is often advisable fold since anyone re-reraising here should most likely be holding AA or KK. Of course, they may be holding QQ but its still wiser to fold. The reason is because firstly, most of the time you will be wrong and the re-reraiser is indeed holding AA or KK. When that happens, you are at least 70% dominated. Worse still, you lose even more if you hit the ace or the king on the flop. Secondly, even if you are right and your opponent is only holding QQ, you only have 1/3 chance of hitting your ace or king on the flop. Finally, even if you hit the ace or king, you will not get paid off since your opponent will usually fold his QQ when overcards hit the flop because you have raised preflop and likely to hold the ace or king."
"How to Play Ace-King in No-Limit Texas Hold'em
Ace-King, the Big Slick, is a big starting hand in No-Limit Texas Hold'em but it is still a drawing hand. It is a difficult hand to play and for many players, AK is often a big money loser in the long run. In fact, for this reason, some players don't play Ace-King at all.
Hmmm, not sure I agree with this.
Yes it is a difficult hand to play for many players but it is only a big money loser if we mis-play it.
VS Super Nits facing a 3bet we can just fold if we know they won't 3b without kk or aa!
I'd play it against anyone else depending on what I know about their style. You will frequently see players push all in preflop higher up where the 3betting and 4 betting ranges include "light betting". However, not so much at microstakes.
Against calling stations who can't fold any pair then betting three streets for value is the way forward as over time we will make money from these players.
Can but hope that variance will fall back my way and spin back up again next time out.
A cheeky hour or so which would have been a few quid better if I hadn't mugged myself over in a FH vs better FH hand. If I'd be concentrating more in that hand, the oppo pretty much showed me that the river had topped my flopped FH.
To make things worse, the reason I just lazily called was because I had a tougher decision on another table at the same time and looking back at the FH hand meant I timed out for an all in call vs a maniac with TPTK on a mono board (he showed TP with a 4 kicker).
Also, 2 days after my last post about this:
Maybe my multi tabling has gotten me closer to that number than I thought, but feels more like I'm overdue going a year + without seeing another RF at my tables!!
Read, read, read some more
Have dug out some good articles in Poker Player in the last couple of days which I think have made useful bedtime reading to try and focus my mind on one or two simple concepts - ones which I pretty much already knew, but prove a good refresher reference.
Some of the stuff Ross Jarvis adds in there I think is hugely helpful to micro levels. He seems to have a knack of writing beneath his ability and stating the obvious to mirco stakes players - a lot of the pros that write stuff tend to be thinking (and explaining) at far too high a level for someone at my stakes (rightly so) which I think can often result in my trying to make sense of it... then levelling myself against a level 0 calling station that just doesn't warrant any sort of fancy dan plays.
The 5-0 was the final shoeing of a filthy run that was down to almost our whole first team being out injured, exaccerbated by the poison dwarf and his one man vendetta against all media outlets. Shame really as we could easily have got top 2 this season, but no team at this level can expect to perform with their whole first choice back-four and midfield missing for such a large part of the season.
Can but hope we get better luck with injuries next season and Psycho gets the club buzzing again and maybe uses his U21 connections to get in a handy loan or two (plus clear out the mass of deadwood, mostly left from Schteve's short, painful reign!)
Oh, and hope that your lot stay down of course
It really is a challenge with the internet and it's hard to source free info that you can genuinely appreciate as being value adding. Trouble is, I'm still too cheap at the moment to sign up to one of the recognised coaching sites so am mostly getting by on their 'free' output via pokertube.
Any help offered via you or other winning Sky players will always be appreciated.
I suppose I currently take the view to c-bet all flops that are disjointed (eg J-7-2 rainbow) and have started to cbet more gutshot type flops (Q-T-2 rainbow) that can improve to the nuts, but when you get called it always feels so weak to have to give up, even though invariably a call means oppo has a pair and will be stationing if you bluff / bluff-betting PP type hands if you check.
Although yes, it is only Ace High so I do need to avoid over-valuing it!
Two pretty *sigh* days play resulted in very small losses totaling less than a quid.
Wasn't really going to play at all yesterday, but logged on and saw a couple of fairly nuts NL10 tables running so jumped on.
One table in particular was incredibly frustrating in that I felt I completely read a crazy big stack and his bet-sizing, but just couldn't pick up a hand... and even when I was 100% certain he was bluffing the river, I simply don't have the cajones to call with Q-high for my whole stack!
Despite that, I was looking to wander away with a decent little profit for an hours play, but then this happened:
PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalancesbSmall blind £0.05 £0.05 £17.75 bbBig blind £0.10 £0.15 £9.90 Your hole cards Q Q utgCall £0.10 £0.25 £8.57 utg+1Fold villainCall £0.10 £0.35 £13.06 shakinaces Raise £0.60 £0.95 £17.68 sbFold bbCall £0.50 £1.45 £9.40 UTGCall £0.50 £1.95 £8.07 villainCall £0.50 £2.45 £12.56 Flop 10 8 2 bbCheck UTGCheck villainCheck shakinaces Bet £1.75 £4.20 £15.93 bbFold UTGFold villainCall £1.75 £5.95 £10.81 Turn 5 villainCheck shakinaces Bet £4.00 £9.95 £11.93 villainAll-in £10.81 £20.76 £0.00 shakinaces Call £6.81 £27.57 £5.12 villainShow J A shakinaces Show Q Q River A villainWin Pair of Aces £26.17 £26.17
Incredibly loud sigh - a great spot to be in position against the table maniac villain (that had already called me down with A high earlier in the session and seemed to be regularly trying to push people off with big all in bets) and table calling station UTG - BB was a multi-tabling reg who was certain to be set-mining here IMO.
Part of me wonders if this is a hidden leak in my game - I seem to suffer these suckouts loads but (in cash play) never seem to be the beneficiary of this variance. Is that a sign I'm not bluffing frequently enough?
I can only hope this (which was discussed at the table as well) gains me the credit to get a few extra bluffs through to compensate for throwing money away.
Original raiser was playing pretty wide, although didn't expect to see them at light as they were. BU was likely calling to take pot down later and seemed pretty competent post flop.
SB was playing multiple tables and I hadn't seem get out of line much... given they were effectively committing vs original raiser and knew they were highly likely to be called by both oppo (as it was the original raiser stopped that), this was never going to be a bluff-raise and would be JJ-AA and AK IMO.
I rolled the bet slider up to £4 and proceeded to dwell up until the time bar was spent, in what would have seen me berated for slow-rolling if I had actually pulled the trigger.
Unfortunately convinced myself the SB MUST have AA in this spot, no doubt gun-shy from losing so much with KK in the past fortnight.
Although saying that, I hate getting it in pre with anything other than AA for full stacks. With KK it feels like once the rake is factored in + the times oppo does have AA + the times you get sucked out on = it's just not that winning of a play for 100BB at cash.
FWIW I'm never cold-calling the 3bet. I was 100% expecting original raiser just to flat (the jam surprised me), then button 100% calls with position and I'm in a spot with KK, four-ways, OOP, without the initiative, which is just bleurgh.
There's another query though - if I DID 3bet (which I wouldn't), maniac jams, button calls, SB calls... is it a snap-call with KK?
A nice round amount to end last night. It should have been more but I ran into a few dodgy spots and made a dumb call with KK, to add to my dumb fold with KK above.
I didn't play especially great, but benefited from having position on some of the weak/loose players that made it easier to get decent value from my hands without needing to be too clever.
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Not been at the table long and had no notes on villain - was hoping to tangle with UTG limper. Villain may as well have just typed 'I have a 6' in the chatbox. Call. Facepalm. Start again.
Think I should have raised more pre.
Kept small on flop as wanted to get an Ace to come along for the ride - SB had given me a walk most of the time it was checked round, so figured that or a pair would make up a lot of their hands here.
Should I be checking back the river? I don't have much in way of notes, apart from that they have donked out flopped 2pr and set OOP vs me previously, then checked turn / river.
Villain here was playing his cards face up, he'd already lost a whole stack, deposited, come back to the table a couple of times.
His post-flop play seemed to consist of check/fold (no pair no draw), check/call (draw/no pair), bet pot (any made hand from 1pr upwards) - with very little deviation from that pattern.
I probably could have c/c the whole way, but given I'm a nit there's always a chance I fold another diamond on the river - plus if he's betting pot he's not folding anyway - so chucked it on the turn and saw the bad news.