Started up a little session last night to plug some leaks for the Team Comp that is coming up. Didn't end up working out to well. I ran open a few 8.80s and had 0 luck. Ran my AQ into AQ...ran my AA into KK and TT..K on flop..gg. Can't seem to run too deep in them anymore but they are terribly weak so it'll come.
I played the $75 40k also and had the biggest fish at the table just wanting to give me chips. I got out played with trip kings to a boat and was down to about 2k semi early. I latered doubled up off the said donkey with KK and was up to 4k. I got Aces on the CO and raise(donk was in the SB) he called...flop was 887. The shit he was showing down I was certainly going broke at the table with AA....he checked and I bet and he min raised so I called. The turn was a 6, I cant remember if he bet or checked but we got it all in on the turn for about 6k pot total....he flipped 67s for lower 2 pair....BINK 6 on the river...back down to 1700ish. Don't even remember the bust out hand I think AQ into QQ gg me.
I played some rush tournaments sngs and got semi deep...they start with 135 people and pay top 15...I think I busted around 30th in 2 of them and just tanked the rest. So i had the $5.50 6-max $12k gtd rebuy up with a pretty decent stack in the money.
My table was extremley weak and I waited around for the donk to give me his 40k in chips....he did so when I raised QQ into his BB and he reshipped with 55....put me up nicely. We entered the money and there were about 45ish left or so and i had a 90k or so stack. Only about 2 of the 5 other players were decent.
The one stack to my left had semi good stats and was playing fairly well. He was raising a lot when I was in the BB and I decided after the 3rd time to 3 bet him OOP with Q9o...he over shipped and I folded. I took a few more pots from some other donks and then go involved in this hand.
http://www.pokerxfactor.com/SH216179/3503_20100420_083021
Not sure why it wont embed, kinda gay but anyways.....this is terrible from the start and why we review hands!
Like I said before this is probably the only guy at the table that has been semi active other than me and probably has any idea of how to play pretty good. So after getting crushed to his 4 bet all in previously I decided to take the pussy approach out of postiion with AJo. 45bbs and I dont 3 bet OOP??????
So lets take this into account.....I 3 bet and he 4 bets...what do you do? I think its safe to fold...yes it might be tight but I've been trying to not play out of position a lot lately just because I blow stacks like crazy because my post flop skillz SUCK.
Lets take a look at the lines we could have taken preflop here.....his stando raise was right around this area....I've seen him min raise with ATs UTG and have seen him pop it up about 2.2-2.4x when coming in for a raise.
Option A) Flat call, re evaulate the flop. When the flop came out and Ace showed, I should have taken the first line and bet into him...and heres why. i dont have the hand history but I believe it was a 3 way pot with villian and the other guy who had 1 decent run in the double deuece. I called with SB with a hand and played post....I led out and they both folded. I think if I led out here a 2nd time he can re pop me with some draws or on just air. I'm not sure he's capable player of doing this with air, but if he would have re popped me I would have shoved in his face and hopped he showed me AT/9 etc etc...if he had AK then gg me...sorry about my luck.
Option B) This is the line i take almost 93382834% of the time....its called 3-betting and taking the aggressive approach pre flop...yes out of position but like I said before I have no problem getting rid of AJo oop with 45 bbs to start the hand..I can def use my position later in the tournament and kill these people.
I've been perplexed on how to 3-bet out of position without over bloating the pot...being that we were both pretty deep 3-betting may have been out just because...why play a bloated pot and lose 15-20bbs when you dont hit and are first to act? ehhh i dunnoo.....anyways what i SHOULD have done was 3-bet 7.5-8bbs....somewhere around 14-15k....I think he folds here more often than not...if i had around 30bb stack then I am def getting this bloated to about 9-11bbs pre and shoving any flop if he calls pre. Thats just how I'm playing this hand.
So we took the lesser line and obv just called....flop comes down PERFECT...should be doing fist pumps and all the like but nooooo.....the problem with this hand is I wasnt thinking. I was thinking at all what my plan of attack was when the flop came down. If I have top pair do, should I check call? should I check raise and take the pot right there? ALWAYS HAVE A PLAN.
Dude bets half the pot...6k into just over 12.. sldkjfl;askfjaskljflaskf omg easy???? give me the pot???? whats he betting half the pot on an AKx 2 suite board besides some kind of DRAW? wow bad read me......this is where I needed to have a plan and check raise it to about 20k or so....if he's value betting a set or AK here then again I guess I'm going broke? 6 handed table...coolered if so..whatever , thats how I'd play it. But elect to pussy call...and boom T spikes....he bets 16.5k and I re ship 85k!?!?!?!!? what the hell? I sat there and said this has to be some kind of draw and it hits and I do that?! obviously he has QJ and spiked his 11 to 1 and got this donkey to stack off 45bbs with top pair. blahhhhh.
Just a 3 bet pre or a lead on the flop could have avoided this and we could have had over 100k stack with about 45ish left or so and $2400 up for grabs. Live and learn though....gotta remember to have a plan for each betting round and each hand your in. Don't be scared to change your plan either...when someone bets half the pot like that and its uncharacteristic stick with your READ....bump it up and get him to fold that weak weak weak play.
Today is 4/20 woo woo.....pens plays tonight and I'll probably fire up some more MTTs. I'm getting absolutley destroyed on PokerStars still...I hope this doesnt continue once the SCOOP starts...need to run hot hot hot for the competition....the draft for that is tomorrow so we'll see whos on my team. If I can stop blowing nice chip stakes I might have a shot at a nice time and a nice win here and there. Hopefully we'll ship something tonight....talk to ya.
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