A bit of a playalong from a video hand of mine..

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6-handed Full Tilt $.5/1. I'm recording a video for a new project of mine, The Road to Robusto (let's hope the name ends up being appropriate). It's a great game and I'm playing A+ poker at this point. Most hands involving me haven't featured a showdown.

Reads: MP is loose and fairly aggressive. The BB is overaggressive and seems to be overapplying some basic 6-max concepts; he plays a lot like I did when I didn't really understand basic poker concepts but was trying to play shorthanded anyway. From what I've seen his raising range isn't horrible (he has raised T8s after a limper and has 3bet JTs vs a somewhat tight raiser in the SB, and bet out on a 234 flop). In the T8s hand he checked it down but bet when he hit a pair of 8's on a JKxx8 board, and his hand was good (the action went limp-call; check-check; check-check; check-bet-call). The limper he isolated was loose and passive and bad (he was the same player he 3bet with JTs later). I've seen him (BB in this hand) put in 3-4 bets preflop a number of times and either fold before showdown or win without a showdown on a fair variety of boards, but I wouldn't call him maniacal. Just somewhat loose and definitely aggressive.

So yeah. Back to the hand. MP limps. I complete in the SB with 4[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]4[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. BB raises. MP calls. I call. If anyone wants to discuss any aspect of preflop play bring it up here, because I generally don't include preflop in playalong hands since it makes the whole thing take a week to develop. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

The flop is J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]2[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]. We're first to act and it's 3-ways to the flop for 6SB. I . . . with the intention of . . . if . . .

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Rob