Archive for February 5th, 2010

The player that I ended up sucking out on yesterday was the reason I was sitting in this 40/80 game. I didn’t recognize his name, so I sat in and started playing a bit. It quickly became apparent that he was one of the most loose and aggressive players I’d ever played with. My HUD showed him running at something like 45/32/9, which was telling even over a small sample size. I had never seen him fold to a continuation bet, either.

Not that he was terrible. He actually seemed to play reasonably well post-flop, but against good players, I just don’t think it’s going to be possible to show a profit playing 45% of your hands at a 5-handed table. Still, figuring out how to adapt to such aggression was tricky. Here’s a hand I’m still not sure about:

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold’em, $80.00 BB (5 handed) – Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Button ($12588)
SB ($16658)
BB ($16438)
UTG ($24125)
Hero (MP) ($10647)

Preflop: Hero is MP with 9, A
1 fold, Hero bets $240, Button calls $240, 2 folds

Flop: ($600) J, 2, 3 (2 players)
Hero bets $444, Button calls $444

Turn: ($1488) K (2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets $1200, Hero calls $1200

River: ($3888) K (2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets $2800, Hero calls $2800  Read the complete post...