$2,958.40 & Poker quiz
I can’t say how good it feels to look at that number. I destroyed the $50 game for $512 on Saturday night/Sunday morning. A lot of my opponents were obviously drunk, and I managed to run well against them. With that win I broke $2k and decided to add a couple of $100 games to the $50’s I was playing. Despite the $100 being noticeably harder, I still did well, managing another win for $500, one $250 loss, and a couple smaller wins. Life is good. I’ve played well, but I haven’t really done anything particularly great. I’ve managed to run well, and pick up some rather huge hands at quite a few opportune times.
It’s starting to feel like real money now. I have a minimum of $400 in play at a time, when I win sometimes it runs up to $700. Not a huge sum in context of the whole of my poker life, but after the long struggle with my online play, and my play in general over the past couple years, it’s pretty amazing to me. Because it’s real money though, I’ve gotten the sick rush of gambling again. Inability to sleep, a sour and angry frown when I lose or play too long. But, it’s easier online, it’s just poker, just icons on a screen, there are no men across the table depressed and sullen, or cursing their luck.
I had lesson #2 with my coach last night. It was from a session that I ran insanely well in (AA 3 times held all times, my set vs AA, etc etc) but also managed to put out two huge bluffs, one that didn’t work, and one that did. They were both good hands to talk through, and I realize my mistake in the one that didn’t work out after going through it with him. Both were against opponents who looked like pretty decent players.
Quiz time… can anyone guess which bluff worked, and which one got called? (Hint the one that worked was a better play…)
Full Tilt Poker $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold’em – 5 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
pm77 (BTN): $8.35
Tina first lady (SB): $103.00
Hero (BB): $111.10
gass1984 (UTG): $42.30
KinkyCindy (CO): $119.05
Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is BB with T
9
3 folds, Tina first lady raises to $3, Hero calls $2
Flop: ($6.00) 6 J 3
(2 players)
Tina first lady bets $4, Hero raises to $13, Tina first lady calls $9
Turn: ($32.00) 7
(2 players)
Tina first lady checks, Hero bets $22, Tina first lady calls $22
River: ($76.00) K (2 players)
Tina first lady checks, Hero bets $73.10 all in
….Hand 2….
Full Tilt Poker $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold’em – 6 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
whebber (MP): $158.95
shnider (CO): $156.40
Hero (BTN): $118.60
Autobluff (SB): $98.25
Reckless_bet (BB): $119.95
pontifftrix (UTG): $110.00
Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is BTN with 5 A
3 folds, Hero raises to $2, Autobluff raises to $7, 1 fold, Hero calls $5
Flop: ($15.00) T 6 3 (2 players)
Autobluff bets $10, Hero raises to $29, Autobluff requests TIME, Autobluff calls $19
Turn: ($73.00) 9 (2 players)
Autobluff checks, Hero bets $55
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My answer to the quiz: Big time donkey, big time donkey. I have no idea. Poker is 100% luck. What does it matter. It’s impossible to tell. You didn’t tell the position. THe opponent VPIP, etc. etc. My guess is the second one is better, but that is based on incomplete info.
position is there… They were both TAG-ish, both somewhere around 19 vpip/16pfr/2.5 AF
In response to another comment. See in context »#2 worked, #1 got called.
but yeah, poker is at LEAST 100% luck, so i don’t know why you care.
maybe… why do you think #2 worked and #1 got called?
poker is 110% luck… 100% what cards you get and 10% being lucky enough to play stupid people.
In response to another comment. See in context »I don’t understand why you’d call the pre-flop raise in the first hand with T, 9 off-suit, so I’m probably already disqualified.
Many outs with A, 5 spades, so I see that one all the way. (not just because you pulled it off)
Your post ends with Hero betting $55 before the river; presumption is autobluff folds. You should likely explicate for us dummies.
Glad to hear you’re happy to be playing well, even with the sick rush. Good bankroll management should include putting some of these feelings away for use later, too …
The answer… #1 was good, #2 was bad. The all mighty Krantz of Deuces cracked fame, was kind enough to respond to my email and posit some theory of why.
“Hey man,
Glad things are going well! Hard to comment on the hands you posted without any reads, but I’d have to say that the first one is a pretty good play (opponent’s hand is usually going to be weak and the king on the river is a great scare card against someone who can’t read hands) and the second one is really bad. You have 3 outs usually when called and your opponent almost always has a hand with showdown value when he calls the flop, and since the pot is reraised and you’re not really repping many hands, I doubt that he’ll fold.
Hope that helps!”