checky turns to dark side, NL cash games
well, after getting felted for the first time ever in an o8 cash game (omg bad runs--i'm 1/2 pot for 7 on nut low draw and nut flush draw situations), i've gone over to the dark side. yes, i am playing NLHE. and god, it's funny. i've doubled up in each session so far within the first 2 hours, and there are some pretty funny hands involved:
venetian (entitled: how to get a great image):
my plan for this 1/2 session was to get extremely drunk and shove as much as possible postflop. we're currently 6 handed.
hero is sb with A10.
2 limpers, hero completes, bb checks.
flop A23 rainbow. hero checks, bb checks, utg+1 checks, dustin/navybuttons (who is playing the same drunk/craziness as me) bets 20, hero shoves for 180. utg+1 calls all in, dustin calls all in. dustin has 22 and rivers a boat, utg+1 has 45. LOL.
also at venetian (entitled: after you get a game going crazy, how you make the mobneys):
hero is mp3 with KJ. 4 limpers, CO maniac makes it 20 straight. we see a flop 5 way.
flop KQ3 rainbow. check to CO who shoves for 260 or so. all fold, hero instacalls, knowing he's good. KJ is indeed good, obviously, LOL. CO says he had a queen. hero does not believe him.
but here's a more legitimately interesting hand of 2/5 the rio, and not part of a drunkfest:
hero is mp3 with J9h. 1 fold, hero bumps to 20, a LAG/tricky player (who occasionally gets overly fancy, but is very good in general) repops to 40 from the SB, hero calls.
(villain's range here is fairly large, but usually his 3bets are larger if they're not legit hands and he doesn't want to see a flop out of position. i'd say his range here is 99+ and AJ+, maybe KQs).
flop K99 rainbow.
sb checks, hero bets 60, sb checkraises to 150, hero calls.
(now i'm pretty sure he has AA or AK)
turn bricks off, we both check, me behind so i can induce a bluff on the river.
river A. that's either a really good card or a really bad card, since i'm 99% sure he has either AK or AA. i really am sure that it's not KK, since i got the feeling he really didn't like that i called his checkraise.
sb bets 200, hero calls. my hand obviously can't really stand a reraise, and if he has AK he can't stand a raise, so i figure my best course of action is to just call behind. if the guy was a worse player, i'd repop him on the river, but i know AK ain't calling and AA is reraising me. he has AK, woot.
so yeah, i'm actually kinda liking the NL thing for now, but i still think the game is boring. we'll see how long this little experiment lasts, but it's been really easy thus far to look like a retard early in sessions and get insane action later on when it really matters. in general, i've been very proud of my play, not only in NL but in all games. my reads have by and large been insanely sharp, but i've made a couple small-ish mistakes not really acting on them with complete abandon.
but it's saturday today, and i'm sipping coffee while watching the big lebowski before i take my daily swim and head over to the rio to make some money. this 10k goal thing may be within reach yet. we'll see.
venetian (entitled: how to get a great image):
my plan for this 1/2 session was to get extremely drunk and shove as much as possible postflop. we're currently 6 handed.
hero is sb with A10.
2 limpers, hero completes, bb checks.
flop A23 rainbow. hero checks, bb checks, utg+1 checks, dustin/navybuttons (who is playing the same drunk/craziness as me) bets 20, hero shoves for 180. utg+1 calls all in, dustin calls all in. dustin has 22 and rivers a boat, utg+1 has 45. LOL.
also at venetian (entitled: after you get a game going crazy, how you make the mobneys):
hero is mp3 with KJ. 4 limpers, CO maniac makes it 20 straight. we see a flop 5 way.
flop KQ3 rainbow. check to CO who shoves for 260 or so. all fold, hero instacalls, knowing he's good. KJ is indeed good, obviously, LOL. CO says he had a queen. hero does not believe him.
but here's a more legitimately interesting hand of 2/5 the rio, and not part of a drunkfest:
hero is mp3 with J9h. 1 fold, hero bumps to 20, a LAG/tricky player (who occasionally gets overly fancy, but is very good in general) repops to 40 from the SB, hero calls.
(villain's range here is fairly large, but usually his 3bets are larger if they're not legit hands and he doesn't want to see a flop out of position. i'd say his range here is 99+ and AJ+, maybe KQs).
flop K99 rainbow.
sb checks, hero bets 60, sb checkraises to 150, hero calls.
(now i'm pretty sure he has AA or AK)
turn bricks off, we both check, me behind so i can induce a bluff on the river.
river A. that's either a really good card or a really bad card, since i'm 99% sure he has either AK or AA. i really am sure that it's not KK, since i got the feeling he really didn't like that i called his checkraise.
sb bets 200, hero calls. my hand obviously can't really stand a reraise, and if he has AK he can't stand a raise, so i figure my best course of action is to just call behind. if the guy was a worse player, i'd repop him on the river, but i know AK ain't calling and AA is reraising me. he has AK, woot.
so yeah, i'm actually kinda liking the NL thing for now, but i still think the game is boring. we'll see how long this little experiment lasts, but it's been really easy thus far to look like a retard early in sessions and get insane action later on when it really matters. in general, i've been very proud of my play, not only in NL but in all games. my reads have by and large been insanely sharp, but i've made a couple small-ish mistakes not really acting on them with complete abandon.
but it's saturday today, and i'm sipping coffee while watching the big lebowski before i take my daily swim and head over to the rio to make some money. this 10k goal thing may be within reach yet. we'll see.
posted by jamie at 3:05 PM
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