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This hand is why I love PLO. It's just just gorgeously gross at times. The moral here is if you have the nuts it's always nice to also hold the nut redraw blockers.
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Morning all
Feeling a bit dickie at the moment, nothing serious but enough if I describe it to turn you off your cornflakes so we won't go there. On the plus side I can have a bit of day time grinding.
Just had this hand go off at that big site. What do you think of the winner's decision to call pre? I'm torn between it being madness and genius. This is not a bad beat post, this guy is getting great odds, very unlikely to be dominated and of course is soooooooooted. Then again it's 5 high and is likely to be facing an overpair. Is this a call with 20bb and a chance to at least triple up I should be making?
Tournament #561011322, $15.00+$1.50 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level IX (75/150) - 2012/02/21 5:12:02 ET
Table '561011322 18' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: Hero (10585 in chips)
Seat 2: dmonch (6586 in chips)
Seat 3: Jerman027 (7060 in chips)
Seat 4: Afcaantje84 (3153 in chips)
Seat 5: shakall76 (4943 in chips)
Seat 6: DancerRzn (1648 in chips)
Seat 7: goapaa (3078 in chips)
Seat 8: bugiaso (5619 in chips)
Seat 9: givewhatucan (3820 in chips)
Hero: posts the ante 20
dmonch: posts the ante 20
Jerman027: posts the ante 20
Afcaantje84: posts the ante 20
shakall76: posts the ante 20
DancerRzn: posts the ante 20
goapaa: posts the ante 20
bugiaso: posts the ante 20
givewhatucan: posts the ante 20
shakall76: posts small blind 75
DancerRzn: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [Ah As]
goapaa: raises 150 to 300
bugiaso: calls 300
givewhatucan: raises 300 to 600
Hero: raises 9965 to 10565 and is all-in
dmonch: folds
Jerman027: folds
Afcaantje84: calls 3133 and is all-in
shakall76: folds
DancerRzn: folds
goapaa: calls 2758 and is all-in
bugiaso: folds
givewhatucan: calls 3200 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (6765) returned to Hero
*** FLOP *** [5d 4s 6h]
*** TURN *** [5d 4s 6h] [Jh]
*** RIVER *** [5d 4s 6h Jh] [2h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
givewhatucan: shows [Tc Th] (a pair of Tens)
Hero: shows [Ah As] (a pair of Aces)
Hero collected 1334 from side pot-2
Afcaantje84: shows [5h 3h] (a flush, Jack high)
Afcaantje84 collected 225 from side pot-1
goapaa: shows [Qs Qd] (a pair of Queens)
Afcaantje84 collected 12937 from main pot
givewhatucan finished the tournament in 797th place
goapaa finished the tournament in 798th place
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 14496 Main pot 12937. Side pot-1 225. Side pot-2 1334. | Rake 0
Board [5d 4s 6h Jh 2h]
Seat 1: Hero showed [Ah As] and won (1334) with a pair of Aces
Seat 2: dmonch folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: Jerman027 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Afcaantje84 (button) showed [5h 3h] and won (13162) with a flush, Jack high
Seat 5: shakall76 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: DancerRzn (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 7: goapaa showed [Qs Qd] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 8: bugiaso folded before Flop
Seat 9: givewhatucan showed [Tc Th] and lost with a pair of Tens
However, I have to say (further to Lambert180's comments), all we have so far are three random hands, one of those is taken from a rival site. I hope future content will be a little more interesting!
In my life a few people have come out to me which has always made me feel proud that they felt they could tell me as well as awkward. Why am I awkward? Well I really don't care, yet as I was the first or one of the first people my friends have told I have always felt I need to over play a reaction. The first time a good friend told me I just gave my natural reaction, I think I said 'fair play, pass me a beer.' They actually looked somewhat crestfallen that I was pretty passive about it. Good luck to Jason and hopefully after the forums have had their reaction it will all settle down and life will return to normality for him. I'm pretty sure it will.
Recently there was a documentary made by Amal Fashanu (daughter of John, niece of Justin) focussing on attitudes to homosexuality in professional football. Despite my annoyance that I felt John Fashanu got off pretty lightly for disowning his brother Justin (for those who don't know he was the only 'out' top tier footballer in modern English football) it was a pretty good show. Will another pro ever come out? I very much doubt it, mainly because of the press. For those who don't know I work on community radio, part of this is commentating on live football matches. I won't name the club but there is one press room I have regularly been to that has a massive number of loud homophobic, sexist, racist small minded low level hacks. While there is any significant element of journalists with these attitudes no Gay footballer will ever get a fair shot of trying to lead the way, so why should they bother with the hassle?
If I was you Alan I would go straight into NL10 and start with £300. Write this money off straight away as a 'training expense.' Play cash, see if you like it, read up on all the forums to improve and see if you're comfortable with it. 30BIs is pretty much the minimum you can have so if you decide you can/want to play cash poker look at building your roll up to 50BIs for a level and get your spin on.
TommyD really reps an 8 and pretty much never J8 unless he got really tricky
I can really rep J8
TommyD knows that I think he has an 8 so I wouldn't be bluffing him
So based on that knowledge/info/read I want to get as much money in as possible to freeroll him or get him off the chop.
If I am wrong and he has J8 I still have about 22% equity.
These are just my thoughts on the hand, I could be wrong but thats why poker is great!
life stuff to sort. I'll probably go into that later on if this thread takes."
I'm moving house, or at least hoping to (touch wood). Found a place to move into, found a buyer for the present home and now just sorting the mortgage out. Bearing in mind we are currently in the worst house buying period since man had to avoid sabre-tooth tigers when switching caves it's all been very stressful. Essentially all of my UKOPS bink is to be turned into bricks and mortar, a fact I'm not completely happy with. My girlfriend is somewhat high maintenance and as such has decided that if the move falls through she will be completely devastated, a fact she has not been shy to remind me of on a regular basis. Combine this with the fact that the stress load at work has hit an all time high I've really had other things on my mind than poker, which has probably contributed to my poor start to the year
The hands I posted were some kooky ones that happened recently and I thought two of them would be fun to look at while the PLO one was just a fun hand to show how sick the game can be.
Regarding the rival site, for posterity I'd like to say they have just cancelled a ton of tournies, some of which I was in. Who says they don't have tech issues? Now imagine if they had a forum, Sort It Out Stars! etc etc etc
Thank you to Tikay and Rich for plugging the stuffing out of this diary, totally unsolicited and very appreciated. Better make this good now.
Happy grinding all!!
1) You gotta know when to hold em
This hand happened after the one below. They are out of order for the title of the Kenny Rogers classic. So the table is super passive, pre I have the button and I have an internet connection. I raise, would be happy to take it down pre and happy to play the streets. It gets interesting on the river, I have picked up a good draw but the villain has gone completely against type by leading. This is the first aggression I have seen from him. I'm quite worried. Flop flat is easy, on the turn it's a little more tricky. There is no point raising flop or turn, both leads signal huge strength in this spot when compared to the history and I'd just be burning money. However I felt that I had the implied odds to get the entire stack if I hit and I can play this hand pretty much perfectly. I binked, shocked by the open jam but I think this pretty much says had I raised a standard river bet I was still getting my value.
2) You gotta know when to fold em
I bet a little extra pre here because the table was playing very loose passive. I had changed my open sizing from about the fourth hand to account for this. Flop is standard C-bet spot, nice board to take it down there and then. When I get called I'm considering being up against small-mid pairs calling to reassess, a ten slowplaying or a simple float to reassess with some kind of broadway, or 89. The turn hits me nicely. It's now a tricky decision to continue betting. I can check behind here to allow the oppo to complete the float on the river and get my value there, or if the river is another check I can try to extact value on the river. However 89 is still out there as well as mid pairs and the broadway combinations that may have hit that King as well so I decide to attempt to get a street of value here knowing I may not get value on the river. Here comes the min check/raise. Alarm bells ring but i call to reassess on the river. The river hits me again and we now have top two. The downside here is we are now facing a shove. While I have improved I don't think I have overtaken anything on the river when he shoves. If I was behind on the turn I'm still behind and vice versa. All the broadway combos are now gone (apart from another AK of course). This is either trip tens, a boat or a bluff. Apart from 89 there are no bluffs IMO unless Jibbz is way out of line. Too much strength so i run away like a little girl. When shown on TV it was revealed Jibbz had pocket sevens.