25NL - Playing AKo horribly. 4hands [Archive]

Bowlboy

01-08-2007, 11:13 AM

I just decided to take a shot at 25NL last night after I got up to 20 buy-ins. Was really hoping my first night would be not quite so bad. Back to 10NL for me as I dropped $100 in 3k hands. I tilted off a lot of monies in these hands mostly because I had been receiving some beatings for quite some time. Some of these situations, I dont know if I can get away from because of stack sizes. I definitely need some help with these. Hard to get away from all of them when I was already having such a bad night.

Best thing for me to do I think was just end my session before it went from bad to worse. I thought I had a good handle on managing tilt but I think this still needs some work.

Comments on all hands, all streets welcome.

Hand #1 Only 20 hands on villain who is 35/0/0.75 
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BB ($14.50)
UTG ($25.35)
MP ($18.50)
CO ($10.90)
Button ($41.05)
Hero ($26.55)

Preflop: Hero is SB with K/images/graemlins/heart.gif, A/images/graemlins/club.gif. Hero posts a blind of $0.25.
1 fold, Hero (poster) raises to $1.

Flop: ($1.20) Q/images/graemlins/heart.gif, K/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, J/images/graemlins/heart.gif (5 players)
thegenio checks, thegenio calls $1.50.

Turn: ($2.70) T/images/graemlins/spade.gif (5 players)
thegenio checks, thegenio calls $2.

River: ($4.70) Q/images/graemlins/spade.gif (5 players)
thegenio checks, Hero: calls $10.50 (All-In).

Final Pot: $15.20

Not sure what happened with hand converter here but I know I bet everystreet and got raised on the river.

Hand #2 Villain is 27/11/4.00 over like 100 hands though this hand was early in the session so I didnt have too much of a read on him at the time. I was able to stack him off later on something else which made me feel better but meh.
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BB ($34.45)
Hero ($37.10)
MP ($35.80)
Button ($7.40)
SB ($25)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with K/images/graemlins/heart.gif, A/images/graemlins/spade.gif.
Hero raises to $1, MP calls $1, 3 folds.

Flop: ($2.35) A/images/graemlins/club.gif, 3/images/graemlins/club.gif, 2/images/graemlins/spade.gif (2 players)
Hero bets $1.75, MP calls $1.75.

Turn: ($5.85) 5/images/graemlins/club.gif (2 players)
Hero checks, MP bets $3, Hero calls $3.
 Does anybody fold this turn? The flush card is scary but that feels kind of weak... I think folding here might cause people to float me more often no? 

River: ($11.85) 3/images/graemlins/spade.gif (2 players)
Hero checks, MP bets $9, Hero calls $9.

Final Pot: $29.85

Hand #3 Villain is 44/5/1.05 over 100 hands. Seemed to be a calling station. 
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SB ($14.50)
Hero ($24.30)
UTG ($23.65)
MP ($37.25)
CO ($24.70)
Button ($7.90)

Preflop: Hero is BB with K/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, A/images/graemlins/club.gif.
UTG calls $0.25, MP raises to $0.5, CO calls $0.50, Button calls $0.50, SB raises to $0.75, Hero raises to $3.5, UTG folds, MP folds, CO folds, Button folds, SB calls $2.75.

Is this too aggro here? I want to take this down preflop. I had no idea what all these min-raises were about, but we want to get this heads up right? 

Flop: ($8.75) J/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 9/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 6/images/graemlins/diamond.gif (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $6.5, SB calls $6.50.

Turn: ($21.75) T/images/graemlins/diamond.gif (2 players)
SB checks, Hero checks.

River: ($21.75) A/images/graemlins/spade.gif (2 players)
SB bets $4.5 (All-In), Hero calls $4.50.

Final Pot: $30.75

Hand #4 No reads on this guy 
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UTG ($25.35)
MP ($18.50)
Button ($10.90)
SB ($41.05)
Hero ($26.55)

Preflop: Hero is BB with K/images/graemlins/club.gif, A/images/graemlins/diamond.gif.
2 folds, Button raises to $1, SB calls $0.90, Hero calls $0.75.
 Not sure why I just call this instead of 3betting. Maybe because 3betting with AK had been costing me too much money at this point, and no reads. Is calling here ok, or is 3bet without reads best? 

Flop: ($3) 6/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 5/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, K/images/graemlins/diamond.gif (3 players)
SB checks, Hero checks, Button bets $1.25, SB folds, Hero raises to $3.75, Button calls $2.50.

Is this a bad spot for check raise? If check raising is ok should I be raising more? This hands sorta looks ok to me. I might be up against KQ or KJ here pretty often.

Turn: ($10.50) 7/images/graemlins/diamond.gif (2 players)
Hero bets $7, Button calls $6.15 (All-In).

River: ($23.65) T/images/graemlins/spade.gif (2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: $23.65