two hands. one to just describe, one to ask for analysis.
last night i took 4th place in a $30 buy in tourney at the poker club. The hand that took me out was definitely a TV hand.
the blinds were at 800/1600 and i had 16k left. under the gun folds, and the button min-raises. i look at my cards and show AJos. I push. bb folds. The button thinks about it for a long time and then finally decides to call. he's sitting with a pretty large chip stack so decided to gamble to take me out, flipping over Q5 (i think os, but maaaybe they were suited).
Board comes out 10/10/Q, so he makes his top pair.
turn comes with a K and makes my straight.
River comes out Q and makes his full house.
dooh!
it was a fantastic hand, very fun to be a part of. it would have been nicer if i had doubled-up and maybe eked another money spot, but no complaints. it was still a lot of fun because the players were fun people, and i went on to win more money in the cash mixed game.
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Here's the hand that i was fortunate enough to win online, but i wonder if i made the correct move.
i was on a 0.50/1 NL table. here was the seating.
Seat 1: AIC2*** (130.35 in chips)
Seat 2: Mere*** (54.90 in chips)
Seat 3: SEPH*** (139.35 in chips)
Seat 4: GAYA*** (133.10 in chips)
Seat 5: TheP*** (98.50 in chips)
Seat 6: bere*** (19.00 in chips)
Seat 7: 32AAblastoff (76.53 in chips)
Seat 8: icem*** (126.19 in chips)
Seat 9: Tibi*** (277.15 in chips)
Seat 10: quad*** (77.85 in chips)
seat 8 iceman was a fairly loose preflopper and had a fairly predictable tendency of "if i hit anything good or am on a decent draw, i'll bet half-pot, if i have something super strong, i'll bet full pot.
seat 10 quadS5S or whatever his name was was a hyper loose aggressive player. would frequently limp or raise and then pot or overpot bet on the flop and then on the turn regardless of whether he hit anything or not. his stack fluxuated wildly.
seat 2 Meredith seemed a solid amateur player.
In the big blind i get dealt 88. iceman and quads call. Meredith raises to $5.50. Everyone folds to me. I figure the chances are good that the two loose players will call and not raise, so i call with the intention of folding to strength if i don't hit my set. The pot is now $22.50.
the flop comes 5s 6s 7s. one of my 8s is a spade, so i have a weak overpair and the straight flush draw.
first to act, i check. Iceman bets the pot, $22.50. I figure he has either a made flush or a made straight. i put him maybe 70% flush, 30% straight. as such i feel like i'm behind, and it's not worth risking a pot sized bet to see if i make what i'm calling a four outer (two outs to the straight flush and adding a few spade outs in case he has a straight instead of a flush), so i plan on folding.
but then quads calls and meredith calls. with quads, not surprising, but Meredith merely calling versus raising all-in indicated that she probably had an overpair and wanted to see what happened on the turn. i didn't put either of them on a made hand.
(as an aside, meredith's move felt like a mistake - folding her remaining $25ish would have been wrong given how much money was in the pot if she was sitting on an overpair, particularly if one was a spade, so she should have just pushed.)
so now with roughly $70 in the pot, i figure this: if i go all-in with my $71 remaining, no one is going to fold - iceman has a hand he's not going to fold, quads only has $45ish left and is loose enough that he's willing to gamble, and Meredith will def. call with her remaining $26 now that she has the potential to quadruple her initial stack. That means with a straight-flush draw and with some uncertainty as to what others are holding, even though i figure i'm behind, if i hit my 5 outer, i quadruple up.
so i push. everyone is all-in. iceman turns over K10 of spades. I don't remember what quads had, it was pretty poor, maybe AJ with no spade or a J spade. Meredith turns over QQ, one spade, probably thinking a fourth spade would help her, or just deciding there was too much money in the pot.
The turn comes 7c,The river comes 8d, so i made a runner-runner full house.
so the question is: was pushing a poor move on my part? At the time i didn't have a lot of time to calculate the odds. It was more general thinking - "i'm fairly short compared to what will go into the pot." But now in retrospect, 5 outs translates to 10% for me to hit by the river and the pot was offering me 4:1. it seems like i made a very risky play if i figured that everyone was going to call and two of the other players were definitely ahead of me. i know i shouldn't have just called, but should i have folded instead?
also, earlier this week on an online table i was witness to my second royal flush. unfortunately i wasn't the one that had it.
the blinds were at 800/1600 and i had 16k left. under the gun folds, and the button min-raises. i look at my cards and show AJos. I push. bb folds. The button thinks about it for a long time and then finally decides to call. he's sitting with a pretty large chip stack so decided to gamble to take me out, flipping over Q5 (i think os, but maaaybe they were suited).
Board comes out 10/10/Q, so he makes his top pair.
turn comes with a K and makes my straight.
River comes out Q and makes his full house.
dooh!
it was a fantastic hand, very fun to be a part of. it would have been nicer if i had doubled-up and maybe eked another money spot, but no complaints. it was still a lot of fun because the players were fun people, and i went on to win more money in the cash mixed game.
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Here's the hand that i was fortunate enough to win online, but i wonder if i made the correct move.
i was on a 0.50/1 NL table. here was the seating.
Seat 1: AIC2*** (130.35 in chips)
Seat 2: Mere*** (54.90 in chips)
Seat 3: SEPH*** (139.35 in chips)
Seat 4: GAYA*** (133.10 in chips)
Seat 5: TheP*** (98.50 in chips)
Seat 6: bere*** (19.00 in chips)
Seat 7: 32AAblastoff (76.53 in chips)
Seat 8: icem*** (126.19 in chips)
Seat 9: Tibi*** (277.15 in chips)
Seat 10: quad*** (77.85 in chips)
seat 8 iceman was a fairly loose preflopper and had a fairly predictable tendency of "if i hit anything good or am on a decent draw, i'll bet half-pot, if i have something super strong, i'll bet full pot.
seat 10 quadS5S or whatever his name was was a hyper loose aggressive player. would frequently limp or raise and then pot or overpot bet on the flop and then on the turn regardless of whether he hit anything or not. his stack fluxuated wildly.
seat 2 Meredith seemed a solid amateur player.
In the big blind i get dealt 88. iceman and quads call. Meredith raises to $5.50. Everyone folds to me. I figure the chances are good that the two loose players will call and not raise, so i call with the intention of folding to strength if i don't hit my set. The pot is now $22.50.
the flop comes 5s 6s 7s. one of my 8s is a spade, so i have a weak overpair and the straight flush draw.
first to act, i check. Iceman bets the pot, $22.50. I figure he has either a made flush or a made straight. i put him maybe 70% flush, 30% straight. as such i feel like i'm behind, and it's not worth risking a pot sized bet to see if i make what i'm calling a four outer (two outs to the straight flush and adding a few spade outs in case he has a straight instead of a flush), so i plan on folding.
but then quads calls and meredith calls. with quads, not surprising, but Meredith merely calling versus raising all-in indicated that she probably had an overpair and wanted to see what happened on the turn. i didn't put either of them on a made hand.
(as an aside, meredith's move felt like a mistake - folding her remaining $25ish would have been wrong given how much money was in the pot if she was sitting on an overpair, particularly if one was a spade, so she should have just pushed.)
so now with roughly $70 in the pot, i figure this: if i go all-in with my $71 remaining, no one is going to fold - iceman has a hand he's not going to fold, quads only has $45ish left and is loose enough that he's willing to gamble, and Meredith will def. call with her remaining $26 now that she has the potential to quadruple her initial stack. That means with a straight-flush draw and with some uncertainty as to what others are holding, even though i figure i'm behind, if i hit my 5 outer, i quadruple up.
so i push. everyone is all-in. iceman turns over K10 of spades. I don't remember what quads had, it was pretty poor, maybe AJ with no spade or a J spade. Meredith turns over QQ, one spade, probably thinking a fourth spade would help her, or just deciding there was too much money in the pot.
The turn comes 7c,The river comes 8d, so i made a runner-runner full house.
so the question is: was pushing a poor move on my part? At the time i didn't have a lot of time to calculate the odds. It was more general thinking - "i'm fairly short compared to what will go into the pot." But now in retrospect, 5 outs translates to 10% for me to hit by the river and the pot was offering me 4:1. it seems like i made a very risky play if i figured that everyone was going to call and two of the other players were definitely ahead of me. i know i shouldn't have just called, but should i have folded instead?
also, earlier this week on an online table i was witness to my second royal flush. unfortunately i wasn't the one that had it.