Goals:
1. Get some reads on a table, feel happy to play there
2. Start up another, try to balance the reads on two tables
3. Work on keeping reads and keeping up with the table changes
How do I feel:
OK, not tired, but a little distracted/work tilted.
Results of goals:
1. Had this early. Saw some weird looking bets and had two tight players on my left
2. Again, good early. Got the reads on both tables, saw and noted lots of interesting things
3. Somewhat good. I was getting tired after an hour of play, and really had gone into auto mode apart from getting reads from a couple of spewtards (I've always noticed spewtards). I did notice having one spewtard (actually a TAG tilting I think) did make it much harder to read other tables.
Again I feel I played pretty well. I have a little "monsters under the bed" sometimes, and don't 3 bet enough. Still I haven't felt like I've had a lot to 3 bet with, but oh well. ran pretty well on the flop again, and ran up a nice little 2 BI.
There were two near identical spots where I "ran well", but do feel like the way I played made the hand insanely easy, however it may not be ideal. I called 99 after being 3 bet, by a fairly TAG/LAG player and flopped T66, so raised his cbet. Flop is terrible for his range, but I feel I'm only folding worse, and getting called by better. Next was calling AT after a TAG (tilting a bit though) 3 bet. Flop is A73, he cbets big, I raise, he insta folds. Two spots where I had way ahead or way behind. Now the idea is to call here and let him spew off. Only in both situations, I feel like he might double/triple barrell as a bluff, and in both cases, I'm not happy to call down with the hand I have. Again in both cases, I'm not even turning my hand into a bluff, as AK never folds there, and even JJ never folds on the T66 board. Don't know, might post somewhere.
Two biggest losses were hitting KJ top pair and getting forced off it by the river, and strangest first hand ever, having a squeeze happen in front of me when I held QQ. Wasn't sure whether to call/fold/raise/shove without any reads or stats, but called to evaluate. Folded to Kxx insta cbet, and later found him to be quite tight, so maybe made a good fold.
The whole US poker thing is horrible, WTF is Bush up to? You have 10 days, retire (or rest) in peace and leave us chronic gamblers alone!!! I'm glad I'm not American, but can just imagine the entire poker culture dying off if poker is banned in the US properly. Some nervous puppies out there right now I presume.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
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