Sorry for the lack of updates recently, I didn’t realize how long it had been because I actually posted something two days ago, but then Blogger ate it and I was too despondent to retype it all. But I still had it in my head that I had updated recently, when in fact I hadn’t.
Most of you probably know by know that min-raises tilt the hell out of me. But sometimes tilt pays:
Full Tilt Poker No-Limit Hold’em, $10 BB (6 handed) Hand History converter Courtesy of PokerZion.com
BB ($1106.25)
UTG ($995)
MP ($530)
CO ($437)
Hero ($2119.50)
SB ($1808)
Preflop: Hero is Button with 3c, Jc.
1 fold, MP calls $10, CO calls $10, Hero raises to $60, SB calls $55, 1 fold, MP folds, CO folds.
Flop: ($150) Qs, 6h, 4d (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $109, SB raises to $218, Hero calls $109.
Turn: ($586) Ts (2 players)
SB bets $210, Hero raises to $841, SB folds.
CO here had actually just sat down and posted out of turn. Then MP limped, which with all that dead money in the pot is super-weak. So I pot it from the button, and this donkey in the SB calls. It’s a great flop to c-bet, and I felt like he could easily be making that stupid little check-raise just to see where he was at, and we were deep enough that I could float him and see if he showed me weakness on the turn. He did, I raised, and he tanked forever, which had me worried until I realized he was disconnected. Finally he reconnected and folded instantly.
And if min-raising titls me, I figured that might work on this clown too. He’d been check-raising me like it was his job, which was actually a giant pain in the ass because when I’ve got position and we’re deep stacked, I really love to put the pressure on. But he got his:
Full Tilt Poker No-Limit Hold’em, $10 BB (6 handed) Hand History converter Courtesy of PokerZion.com
BB ($1050)
UTG ($1527)
MP ($831)
CO ($1708.75)
Hero ($2515.25)
SB ($1403)
Preflop: Hero is Button with Ac, Ah. CO posts a blind of $10.
2 folds, CO (poster) checks, Hero raises to $50, 2 folds, CO calls $40.
Flop: ($115) As, Th, 9s (2 players)
CO checks, Hero bets $115, CO raises to $230, Hero raises to $345, CO calls $115.
Turn: ($805) Qd (2 players)
CO bets $1308.75 (All-In), Hero calls $1308.75.
River: ($3422.50) 9d (2 players, 1 all-in) .
Final Pot: $3422.50
Results in white below:
CO has Ks 4s (one pair, nines).
Hero has Ac Ah (full house, aces full of nines).
Outcome: Hero wins $3422.50.
The other thing about this guy is that he was a slowplayer. At least I’m pretty sure he was, based on situations where he would like check-call, check-call, check-raise the river, and that kind of stuff, I didn’t usually see his hands in those spots. But I felt like he would probably check if he had a draw and hit it on the turn, so that giving him a free-card if I didn’t induce a 4-bet bluff wouldn’t be so disastrous.