** Official September Chat Thread: The Grey Swan **

[holdem2000]

Didn't catch the post 'til now from the August thread, my QQ vs. Prodigy's AA, so I'm sticking my reply here...

No flop continuation bet because I suspect I'm behind. My turn call is getting 3:1, figuring you can have AK/JJ still, and hoping you shut down with AA/KK knowing that I do occasionally have a set, two pair, or a straight here.

Have I made a lot of huge CBs? In heads up pots I thought I was pretty consistently around 1.5 times my preflop bet, do most people think that's on the big side? I guess it might be a little bit big for 3-bet pots.

Edit: I also may have just not had the time to put into one or more of my decisions on this hand... I was playing 8 or more tables and the past couple nights I've had a little trouble keeping focus.

[holdem2000]

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My turn call is getting 3:1, figuring you can have AK/JJ still, and hoping you shut down with AA/KK knowing that I do occasionally have a set, two pair, or a straight here.

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This type of situation is probably one of the bigger leaks in my game right now... I think I need to be paying more attention and make better decisions when faced with these bets and figure out whether to fold or raise instead of being a pussy.

[kcheel]

Expert play by MP1.


PokerStars Pot-Limit Hold'em, $2 BB (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: 2+2 Forums)

CO ($173.10)
Button ($196.55)
SB ($117.80)
Hero ($203.60)
UTG ($188.95)
UTG+1 ($226.90)
MP1 ($285.10)
MP2 ($215.15)
MP3 ($41)

Preflop: Hero is BB with K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, MP1 calls $2, MP2 calls $2, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, CO calls $2, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, SB completes, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $10</font>, MP1 calls $8, MP2 calls $8, CO folds, SB folds.

Flop: ($34) K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $28</font>, MP1 calls $28, MP2 folds.

Turn: ($90) 4[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $60</font>, MP1 calls $60.

River: ($210) 4[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $105.6 (All-In)</font>, MP1 calls $105.60.

Final Pot: $421.20

Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF">
Hero has Kd Kc (full house, kings full of fours).
MP1 has Ah Ad (flush, ace high).
Outcome: Hero wins $421.20. </font>

[TheProdigy]

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Didn't catch the post 'til now from the August thread, my QQ vs. Prodigy's AA, so I'm sticking my reply here...

No flop continuation bet because I suspect I'm behind. My turn call is getting 3:1, figuring you can have AK/JJ still, and hoping you shut down with AA/KK knowing that I do occasionally have a set, two pair, or a straight here.

Have I made a lot of huge CBs? In heads up pots I thought I was pretty consistently around 1.5 times my preflop bet, do most people think that's on the big side? I guess it might be a little bit big for 3-bet pots.

Edit: I also may have just not had the time to put into one or more of my decisions on this hand... I was playing 8 or more tables and the past couple nights I've had a little trouble keeping focus.

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Yea calling getting 3:1 isn't a good idea if the largest % of my range leaves you with two outs [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

The cbets I remember a cpl where you made pretty large ones, so I dunno. I don't think you played it horribly, although obviously if you were checking the flop because you thought you were behind I see no reason for flat calling the turn?

Regardless of anything you made the best 1 decision in that hand, which was checking the flop. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]


Edit: This cannot be a good indicator of the rest of the month for sets...:

[soah]

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to soah2 [Ad As]
CK the 1: calls $4
TheRealSkelo: folds
AceyDavey: folds
AceyDavey said, "instinct"
juniex: folds
soah2: raises $14 to $18
proxipus: calls $18
oddball58: calls $16
ninalk: folds
CK the 1: calls $14
*** FLOP *** [8c 8s Jh]
oddball58: bets $37
CK the 1: folds
soah2: calls $37
proxipus: folds
*** TURN *** [8c 8s Jh] [7s]
oddball58: checks
soah2: bets $80
oddball58: raises $87 to $167 and is all-in
soah2: calls $87
*** RIVER *** [8c 8s Jh 7s] [Ts]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
oddball58: shows [Js Qs] (a flush, Queen high)
soah2: mucks hand
oddball58 collected $481 from pot

september off to a good start, 20 hands in

[Teddie]

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