I played live down at The Rivers for a good session on Thursday, and another short session yesterday afternoon. I plan on relaxing tonight and then playing a monster session tomorrow night and going to work on Monday tired as hell. The important things, right? Anyway, mentally, I think I played really well, didn’t tilt, and I’m stayed very much in control. Results-wise, I’m just up about 1 buy-in from the past 2 days, but I’m not upset about that – results will continue to come with volume. Its just hard to put in a lot of volume live.
Anyway, I had 2 very interesting hands I want to discuss. I think that I played both optimally, but I’m not sure. I’ll discuss them chronologically because they were both at the same table. Here goes. In the first hand, I have about a $500 stack, I’m in MP with 4s5s, and 3 players limp in front of me. I could have jacked it up here, and I probably should have, but I elected to just limp behind because I had been getting some of my Cbets picked off. Everyone else folded, and the BTN limped behind as well. The BB made it $15 more PF, and everyone called except the SB, so it is 6 handed, and the flop came T67 rainbow with 1 spade. It gets checked to me, and again, I probably could have taken a stab at this, but I didn’t, I checked, and the BTN checked as well…..free card. Turn is the 2s, giving me an OESD and FD. The BB bet $25, and one of the limpers before me called. The BB was a decent player also with a big stack, but he wasn’t great. I put him on a very wide range, but without any monsters in his range. I thought for a second and made it $125 to go. I think that this move would have worked perfectly, but unfortunately, the old man on the BTN thought for a minute, showed his hand to his buddy next to him, and flatted my $125……Woops, that wasn’t supposed to happen, but it’s not the end of the world. The BB thought for a minute and folded, and the other guy snap folded. The turn brought an offsuit Jack, and I thought for a minute or 2 and was very close to putting the old man all in, but thank god I didn’t. He quickly checked back and tabled trip 2’s – the hand I was repping. Obviously, without the old man in the hand, this move would have worked, but such is life! I still think this was a solid move, but others may disagree. Not completely sure.
So now that I have that image at this table, I played a few more pots and lost another pot where I Cbet with air and got looked up. My image was loose and bad. In hand 2 a few moments later, I open UTG with JdTd. I get 5 callers! The BB, who was a good internet player who knew what he was doing, tanked for a minute, and then just flatted me. Flop is Js 6d 7d…..GIN! I Cbet $45, and the old man next to me (who did not suck, but was tight), flatted me. Everyone folded to the BB internet kid, and he check/raised me to $125. I had him covered, but he had a full $300 stack. I tanked for a moment, and I realized 2 things. First, yes, his range did include sets, but it also included overpairs and many draws, especially since I had a bad image. Second, the old man to my left had either QQ, KK, or AJ, nothing else becaus he was so tight. I decided that I did not want the old man in the pot, and that I had some (probably little) fold equity, and good equity in general against the BB’s range. So I shoved. Old man folds, BB sighs, says that he’s on a draw but is priced in, and makes the call. Turn Ah, River 5d. Cha-Ching! Unsure what he had though, my guess is 89, but I’ll never know.
Again, I plan on playing a monster session tomorrow night. Hopefully I can make something happen!
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