so I am playing these days on a new windows box and I don't have any of my old db's to hand - but during last nights session this hand came up and I played it like this.
Party Poker, $0.25/$0.50 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players
LegoPoker Hand History Converter
MP: $53.02
CO: $69.28
BTN: $77.97
Hero (SB): $43.50
BB: $24.43
UTG: $101.20
Pre-Flop: J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] dealt to Hero (SB)
UTG folds, <font color="red">MP raises to $1.50</font>, CO calls $1.50, BTN calls $1.50, <font color="red">Hero raises to $7</font>, 2 folds, CO calls $5.50, BTN folds
Flop: ($17.50) 6[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (2 Players)
<font color="red">Hero bets $9</font>, CO folds
Results: $17.50 Pot
so far CO here is the table sucker and I have been tangling with him a little this is the first hand I've 3bet at this table. (I've been sitting for ~3 orbits or so and yes I tried to reload preflop but was too late) The rest of the players at the table are playing pretty nitty and leaching CO dry slowly but surely.
I 3bet my JJ here from the small blind cos I am very confident CO will call at least with a hand I am ahead of and I wants value. I'm also confident that everyone else has a OK but not great hand and won't want to play a big pot - my raise here is a kind of squeeze and I am planning to CB flop if CO calls and take it away from him usually or get mad value cos he's the kind of player that will call if he hits any kind of pair.
Obv here I hit a golden flop but note my flop CB size.(if I'd had 100bb I'd have bet $10 here) Also my preflop 3bet is a little smaller than pot - but it's large enough to get the job done (fold everyone except CO) and it's small enough so that I can bet/fold a nasty flop if he pushes OTT of my raise (I don't think even this guy is going to bluff push many flops where I'm ahead) and if I like the flop and he calls/raises my flop bet we are playing for stacks.
I think if I flat call here preflop I am playing for set value alone - as this hand turned out I probably would have got paid off if I flat call preflop as one of the 4 players is likely to have an Ace, but most often I miss my set so I decided that 3betting preflop here was better.
I amjust trying to illustrate here that altho I am in the "flatcalling JJ in the SB is standard camp" that I don't always flat preflop - when I have a reason to I deviate from my standard line. You should too.
We can't ever ALWAYS take a certain line in a situation. I think that in some of my posts in this thread what I am trying to say is that the leaks the SPEW that some people have is where they autopilot play their standard lines without thinking. They always CB 2/3 - 3/4 pot on flops without
thinking about what will happen later on in the hand - or later on in other hands vs the same players.
Perhaps my play in this hand isn't optimal - but I thought out a plan of attack - I tried to think about what I wanted to manipulate the villains into doing, and then I made what I thought was the best play. I am happy with my play here.
I am a little rusty at this poker stuff having barely played for 3 months (life beats) - and this thread has really made me think so I am enjoying the discussion.