Finally took a break from gallivanting around Prague to try out the new Zoom poker. It’s a lot of fun, pretty much identical to Rush though if anything a touch slower, but still pretty great. Unfortunately I didn’t adapt well to the nittiness of a small-stakes full-ring game and lost a few stacks I shouldn’t have by trying to play it like it was mid-stakes short-handed. It’s a funny dynamic, actually, because you get a mix of really weak players, nitty small-stakes regulars, and good higher-stakes players “slumming it” for what is actually a decent hourly considering how many hands you can get in – I’m averaging about 350/table-hour at full-ring.
Here’s a fun hand I played against one of the better players:
PokerStars Zoom No-Limit Hold’em, $2.00 BB (9 handed) – PokerStars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
Hero (Button) ($246.88)
SB ($67.46)
BB ($584.54)
UTG ($263.43)
UTG+1 ($202)
MP1 ($158)
MP2 ($200)
MP3 ($316.44)
CO ($200)
Preflop: Hero is Button with 9♠, K♣
6 folds, Hero bets $4, 1 fold, BB calls $2
Flop: ($9) J♦, A♠, Q♦ (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $5, BB calls $5
Turn: ($19) 7♦ (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $12, BB raises to $36, Hero raises to $75, 1 fold
Total pot: $91 | Rake: $2.80
Results:
Hero didn’t show 9♠, K♣.
Outcome: Hero won $88.20
Your hand is the clear proof for me that I am hopeless fish in 10 NLHL.
I see this great spot to bluff.
a)Nobody expect that you are bluffing
b)you representing here extreme narrow range.
But I will never execute such move because I am “confident” that I will be called.Congratulation!
I prefer no-foldem poker.As long as you know how to deal with variance in plo I recommend Zoom PLO.$$$$$$$$
Btw, trying this at NL 10 would be suicide. I know this from experience. Frankly I don’t expect this kind of stuff to ever work until you get to NL 200/400 at the best. People just don’t fold top pair…
I’d say the main reason not to try this against less sophisticated opponents is that they don’t check-raise weak hands. I’m pretty sure what’s happening here is Villain turning a better hand than mine, probably second pair or something, into a bluff. I’m not trying to force him off of a hand he’s raising for value but rather off of a better hand that’s bluffing. Weaker players probably won’t have a bluffing range here at all.