Friday, 18 May 2007

A couple of tricky hands.

Reboot my computer and manage to get Stars working at last. Decide to play one table at Stars and one at Paradise.
The Stars table seems to be filled with a lot of short stacks for whom I give little respect. Four limpers and I have KK in the small blind. Raise $1.50. Short stack on $6 thinks I'm on the steal and puts me all in. An ace lands on the river but I take it down as he shows KJo. Nice play fella.
A new short stack ($7) arrives to take the vacated seat. He announces his arrival by going all-in and is uncalled. He shows J7o. Next hand, same tactic again. All-in. Uncalled again. Next hand I catch 77. I raise to a $1 under the gun hoping to isolate crazy man but get called by another shortie on $4! Crazy man goes all-in. I'm not overly happy with the prospect of 77 pre-flop against two callers but call anyway. Shortie folds and I watch four overcards fall none of which connect as crazy man shows down K6. My stack edges up to $43 ($18 up) when I call it a night.

Paradise table
Two key hands on the 5 max Paradise table that I'll share.
i'm in the small blind.
Big blind has $11.40 and I cover
Dealt AKo
Folded around and I raise from the small blind to U1$
Big blind calls.
Flop QQJ rainbow.
I check.
BB raises to $0.70
I call.
As he called a raise I think he has at least a couple of high cards or a pair. I may be ahead and its too small a bet to fold especially given that a 10 is a big out.
Turn is a 9
Pot: $3.4
I check.
BB bets 1.20
Mmmm. A second bullet. I think he likely has something now. A pocket pair. J or even a Q which he is milking. I'm getting around 3-1 to call. I think I have four outs with the tens and decent implied odds if it lands. 6 questionable outs with A and K. Odds are more like 4-1 on me hitting even counting some questionable outs and I make a very loose call.
Pot: 5.80
River: 10 (no flushes possible).
My dream card and I bet 2.50
He goes all-in costing me $6 more to call.
Mmmm. Given the amount of money in the pot I pretty much rule out a bluff. He thinks he has a hand, only question is how good a hand.
I lose to.....
Full house: He may have caught a full house on the flop. QJ would be a loosish call but possible. . A pair of JJ is also possible as is 99 and 10,10. Q9 is less likely to have called my initial raise. Q 10 again less likely. His bets are all eminently callable which fits in with this holding.
I split with....
AK - his bets all make sense here given my weakness. Possible although slightly reduced by me holding the same hand of course.
I beat...
Trips: I priced my bet size to make it difficult for trips to fold. A re-raise all-in pretty much rules out this holding. I think unlikely.
Straight: He holds the K. I think KQ fits with his play. KJ also. K 10 and K 9 both seem like loose pre-flop calls . Maybe suited though?

I call. I think its very close but I'm likely ahead of his range.

Would you call?

The other key hand of the night.
Again played out of position.
I hold Kc 6s.
Two callers and I'm in the big blind.
Pot: 0.75
Flop
4c 6h 7c
I connect a bit and bet 0.60. I want to take it down her and the flop is likely to have missed them both.
MP1 calls.
Mp2 folds
Pot: 1.95
Turn: Jc
I'm thinking he will fold a lot of holdings here. If he held a straight draw he should fold it. If he just holds a pair he has to be worried and I have a flush draw now to fall back on.
I bet$1.20
He thinks and calls.
Pot: 4.35
River: Qc
My flush hits.
I bet $2.50.
He re-raises me to $7.50
Pot: $14.35
I need to call $5.

What does he have? Almost certainly a club. I've got the second nuts and only Ac beats me. I'm getting 3-1 odds to call. I almost call and have another look at the board. Ig he doesn't have the Ac then the next best card is 10c. I really can't imagine he would make this raise with just the 10c. The pause and call on the turn smacks of a draw and most people can't lay down the Ace in those situations.

I fold. Weak tight?

What's your play?

6 comments:

deadlydp said...

Call....

deadlydp said...

and call again - station!

deadlydp said...

cleared out my Noble poker account while I was away and won back that amount in a quick HU game last night - also managed to win a $6 SNG HU on Party last night too. B-roll is now 1090.

Phillberto said...

First hand he showed Q 10 to win the pot with a full house. I still think a call was the correct play given his range. He gets lucky on the river otherwise I was stacking him.
Second hand I reckon my fold is correct. Do you think he has the 10clubs and is betting for what he thinks is value or do you think he sees mine as a blocking betting bet that he can take me off. I really think he has the ace here given his pause before calling the turn.

deadlydp said...

Agree that the first hand was difficult to get away from, second you can read that pause as a sign of the Ac but

deadlydp said...

Agree that the first hand was difficult to get away from, second you can read that pause as a sign of the Ac but would have been interesting to call....me, I probably would have.