Introduction & playing a monster OOP 1/2

bram · #1 07-13-2006, 10:40 AM

Hey all a bit of background about myself - Playing online poker for about 8 months now, started at NL25 and have played as high as NL400 with the right bankroll. I generally play 3-4 tables but will bump this up to 6 once I get a new set up. Recently I cashed out half my roll to start a savings account so I'm back to NL200. I play on the smaller sites because I like to have notes on the players that I am up against and I find the smaller sites have less grinders and more idiots. I am currently playing on CD Poker and Pacific Poker.

Anyways the hand - My table image is pretty tight and agressive, raising a heap from position but hadn't really shown any hands down so far.
The villian is one of the few multitablers on pacific, he seems ok but I had noted that he will call river bets when he only has a light holding. An annoying thing about pacific is that the losing show down hand can be mucked, stopping you from seeing what villian held. Sorry about the format, Pacific isn't compatable with converters [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

$1/$2 Blinds No Limit Hold'em - *** 07 13 23:14:38 2006
Table Gran Habano (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 4
Seat 5: Cpac23 ( $425.75 )
 Seat 6: Arivert ( $181.75 ) <--villian
Seat 7: AndMor ( $200 )
 Seat 9: Bram22 ( $181.05 ) <-- Me
AndMor posts small blind [$1].
bram22 posts big blind [$2].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to bram22 [ Q [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] Q [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] ]
Cpac23 calls [$2].
Arivert calls [$2].
AndMor calls [$1].
bram22 raises [$10]
Cpac23 folds.
Arivert calls [$10]
AndMor folds.
 POT SIZE $28 
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], Q [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 8 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] ]
bram22 checks.
Arivert bets [$7].
bram22 calls [$7].
 POT SIZE $42 
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] ]
bram22 bets [$12].
Arivert calls [$12].
 POT SIZE $68 
** Dealing River ** [ Q [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] ]
bram22 bets [$35].
Arivert calls [$35].
** Summary **
bram22 shows [ Qc Qd ].
Arivert mucks.
 bram22 collected [$132]. 

Preflop was standard I think with that many limpers and playing QQ OOP.

Flop - so I hit the nuts on a dry dry board, thought I would check to see what villian would do, he bet under 1/4 pot which didn't really tell me anything about what he held, I was worried that a reraise would make him fold as a c/r from me when I was the preflop raiser shows heaps of strength.

Turn puts a backdoor flush draw out there but that is pretty unlikely, I bet under a 1/3rd of the pot trying to get some value out of this hand, villian took a long time but called, here I was putting him on a hand like 77-99 or QJs or even a horribly played AA,KK.

River I hit quads, which knocks out him playing a pair of queens, I bet out $35 into a $60 pot hoping he still thinks I am bluffing or am on an underpair, again he thinks for a while before calling.

Please give me suggestions on how to get more value out of hands like these where I want to get value out of the hand but don't want to push out the villian. I really suck at this when playing OOP, I'm thinking leading the flop for a small c-bet would have been better. Tear my play apart and again sorry about the format,

Thanks, James