Two tabling tonight
Table 1
(QJo) Couldn’t fold to the river v-bet, but I’m happy with how I played this hand with the turn check and river crying call.
+$1
(99) This might be as good as a flop gets for 99 four-handed without actually improving. I overbet to take it right there in the face of two hearts.
(JTo) I thought there might be a slowplayed straight somewhere, so I raised the turn to find out when my Jack hit. Suspicions confirmed…no showdown, but chalz had the straight, either flopped and slowplayed or turned.
*twins* did this with QJo earlier, so I called.
(AJo) Classic flush draw call on the flop, but I bet him off on the turn if that’s what it was.
Robotically hit bet pot with AQ without seeing that it had already been raised. Couldn’t call the push.
$5 --> $5.41
83 hands
Table 2
28 hands in, I’ve taken down some blinds and limpers with QQ and that’s it. That pot has me near even still.
(55) Hand 46 finally pays off. Really didn’t know what to do about the river. I guess I should have valued it, but my feeling is they were either on draws, or slowplaying straights, giving me no bet value. One villain had two pair (37) though, so I could have gotten more. (the other had a 2 for an open-ender). I guess if I couldn’t fold the set to a big bet, I should have just led out. Failed to maximize there.
(99) Still basically following my “no moves” policy in the face of a bet. Just let these go…
Wow, brutal. 73 hands of good poker undone by one nasty, nasty gin card. I knew I didn’t have the nuts, but come on….
81 Hands and one brutal blow to leave me stuck.
$4 --> $2.06
81 Hands
O8
OK, the collective 165 or so hands of hold’em above produces a small loss. Check out this sequence of O8 hands that took place in a thirteen-hand session:
(Kh 7h 3h 2s) The flop and turn were great for my hand. The river was scary because both JJ and TT felt more likely than AA at that point, but I was pot-committed.
(Ks Qh Jc Tc) I really wanted to see a river, but my opponent smartly made sure I didn’t.
Feared a quartering, but not as much with A3 as I do with A2.
(7s Ks Ac 2h) I am quite fond of the minraise in O8. It sets the stage for building a big pot on a friendly flop. Villain: Js Qc Th 2s, which is exactly the kind of hand that bad O8 players will call a minraise with and then get in trouble with. The third nut flush in O8 is the equivalent of ace-rag on an ace-high rainbow board in hold’em. Sometimes it’s good, but it is going to cause you a lot of trouble, and you definitely shouldn’t call off your stack with it.
(Qc Qs Ts 6c) I felt around for the nuts with my second nuts on the flop, and with no reraise, I decided KcXc wasn’t out there. Despite that, I didn’t bet the turn because I didn’t want to get in a raising war with a made low with the non-nuts and a card to come. Then the river pairs and I’m absolutely done raising, happy to take the pot on the check-behind without even having to chop.
(Kh 3h Ks 8s) Flopped top set, the turn is a straight maker, and then I river the second nuts with no low. I bet it, no takers. The BB is around, so I cash out.
$5 --> $14.18
13 Hands
I do love O8, and my roll is almost healthy enough to tackle it more often.
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