Archive for January 10th, 2010
Hands From the 1K 6-Max
January 10th, 2010 | Author: foucault
100/200, very young kid in CO opens to 450, I call with Js 9s in SB, relatively bad German calls in the BB. Flop Q c Tc 5s. I consider leading out but decide to check, and we check it through. Turn is a blank, I bet 750, BB raises to 2K, CO folds, I think a long time and call with about 6K behind. River is the Ac, I shove pretty quickly, he folds disgustedly.
100/200, aggressive and very good guy raises to 450 UTG, I call next to act with Ac7c, same young kid from before calls in BB. Flop 7h 4h 2c. Checks to me, I bet 400, kid calls, original raiser folds. Turn 9c, kid checks, I bet 1100, he raises to 3500 with about 10K behind. After considerable thought, I call. river 9d, he bets 3500 pretty quickly, I call, he shows something random like Qd6d.
Sometime after this hand, the kid asks me what my screenname is online. “I don’t play online” I tell him straight-faced while wearing a Poker Stars cap and sweater.
He doesn’t get the joke and insists, “No no I recognize your voice, from a training video.” I can’t help but smile at being recognized. “Yeah, I’m Foucault82.”
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Largest Live Pot of My Career
January 10th, 2010 | Author: foucault
Playing in a pretty nitty 10/25 NL. UTG straddles for $50, gets two calls, I make it $275 to go with 7s 5s on my BB. Straddle folds, other two call. I’m playing about 7K, they both cover. Flop Qs 5d 5h. I bet $750, first player folds, the other one calls.
Turn is the 2s. With the deck crushed and my opponent’s stack in my sights, bet sizing is important here. I’m thinking he can have four types of hands:
a) Float/total air- Almost certainly folding to any bet, and not factoring into my decision.
b) Trips or better- Money’s probably going in no matter what, so doesn’t matter.
c) One pair Queens or better- Probably not folding but not raising either. I think he’ll pay off with these on the river for anything up to a pot-sized bet.
d) Bluff-catcher lower than Queens- This could be a pocket pair or Ace-high. These may call again if my bet is smallish.
So my goal here is to bet the smallest amount I can that will still allow me to make a roughly pot-sized shove on the river.
I chose 1400. He called.
