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verdon's Blog

April 07 2008

6 days in and time for a quick review. Haven't played as many hands as usual due to missing Tuesday (away at Funeral) and with FT having problems on Saturday when I was about to put in a decent session.

Stats so far

Stats are reasonable; win rate is ok. Although I donked off 6 bi's in my very first session which I wasn't very happy about.

Hands of note

KK vs. AA 160bbs deep.

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I'm honestly not sure how I should have played this. Villian is 16/14 and has a pretty narrow range for this type of play. My plan was to play for stacks on a non-Ace flop. I'm not sure he'd let me get away here trying to exercise some pot control and folding is pretty weak.

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Customary suckout against 80/40 maniac.

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Clueless - 40/5 guy limp reraises pocket 5s; calls a 4bet and flops a set.

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Here's a hand where I actually misplayed the turn. Villian is 37/11 and when he calls my flop 4bet I should really be taking my free turn and (hopefully) river cards to try and hit my outs. In hindsight he's not folding for $4.00 more.

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Quads vs FH. When I turn a boat I'm looking to get all the money in here and his line just looks like a club draw which gets there on the river.

And now the good stuff...

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Same maniac from the 2nd hand above. AQs so far ahead of his holdings. Needless to say he ended up losing the stack that he'd built.

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A pair and a flush draw. 13/12 rock opens UTG and I call with SC OTB. Aggro 27/20 squeezes from SB and donk 70/17 in BB overcalls in middle of squeeze.

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If ever there was a board to get away from KK on this is probably it.

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Dummy end of the straight costs the 32/25 dummy a stack.

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66/9 passive guy may as well have flipped his 2 face up as I knew it was there.

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When you are 3bet pre-flop and on the flop it's probably time to muck 2nd pair no kicker.

There are plenty more hands to list but I'll make this the last one. A lesson in how not to play flopped trips.

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Apart from spewing during my very first session of the month I've been reasonably happy with my play.

Parbet microstakes - donk heaven?

I've been fortunate enough to be accepted into the stake challenge organised by JimmyRare www.cardrunners.com/members/forum/ubbthreads.php

and was keen to get in ahead of time as soon as the funds were available to get set up and familiarise myself with the software.

First impressions - pretty damned soft. I can see some of the CR members building up quite a stack here.

Downsides - Not many players/some disconnection issues/no bet pot button/unable to reload during a hand.

Upside - filled with fish/lots of open raising for two big blinds/min 3betting/min value bets (bluffs).

My goal during these 3 weeks is to build a little roll so that I can continue playing there. I think a minimum aim is to double the $100 made available.

Having said that, after a reasonable start, I ended up dropping 20% of my roll before recovering to end up $5 for the two sessions that I played.

Hand 1 - I stack off with AQ on an Ace high board against a 25/11 guy in this hand www.pokerhand.org/
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(note the min 4 bet each time). Also this table was in sterling and not dollars which is actually a little more than this roll can currently support. Sticking to $0.03/.06 tables for the time being.

Hand 2 - slowplayed set gone wrong. Unknown opens CO and I flop a set OOP on a very dry board. With no stats avaialble I'm looking to check raise turn and do not fear giving him a cheap card to catch up a little but plan goes awry when he checks behind. On river I opt for check raise hoping that he's value betting worse or taking a bluff stab at the pot. www.pokerhand.org/

Fortunately as I said the tables are full of fish/donks and I managed to get my overpairs paid off a few times to recover my losses.

This guy was playing 40/30 but was raising so much crap that some well timed pre and post flop aggression was proving to be profitable against him. I took almost two bi's from him before he cleared off www.pokerhand.org/

Here I actually consider mucking KK to the check raise. I mean he must have a 2 to make that play right? But I was running hot by this point and went with the hand www.pokerhand.org/

Another donk ships his money my way. I do so love letting guys with a high bet river % shove their busted draws. I've no idea why he called my flop cbet. www.pokerhand.org/

Last one for now. 3 streets of value against 66/24 www.pokerhand.org/

I'm looking forward to getting back on to Parbet - just need to avoid the other CR members!

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