Poker Grinders

I was playing at the same tables bookie was at. I wanted to be at the same table as bookie. He tells me he’s a winning player at 10nl, so I wanted to see how a consistently winning player plays. For the most part he was just straightforward and tight. I can see how this strategy works at 10NL, but it’s not good enough at any of the higher levels. I made an awesome read and called a guy’s river bet with 94os (just a pair of 4 with the 9 kicker). I know, what the hell was I doing with 94os on the BTN. Uhhhhhh I was trying to isolate the player to my right. This strategy was working fine for awhile, until he decided to get fancy and try calling me down. Of course once I noticed that I just value betted him, instead of trying to double barrel him off a hand. How did I make this soul read call? It was easy, I believe every hand the villains is telling you a story. On the river, when the line the villain takes doesn’t follow the story he was telling all along, something is up. At this point he’s damm good and got me fooled with the NUTS or he’s making a move.

Came online to check emails and then go to bed. I ended up playing 3hrs of poker.I think I might be addicted.It turned out good. I’m at about 700 hands toward the 2.5k weekly goal. It’s going to be a lot easier than I initially thought. I’m pretty close to the half way mark with just 1 day of play. As long as I keep this consistent the rest of the month this goal should be a piece of cake.

Session Results:

679hands

+11.02

My $ EV is $25.39, lost KK vs QQ and got stacked for 100bb, sucks. Oh well it happens.

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Starting today I am going to post the 1 hand with the biggest loss per day to analyze. The focus of the hand post is to identify big leaks. I understand an important determining factor of whether a leak is a big one is the frequency. I don’t have enough hand logged to go off the frequency of my mistakes, so I’ll just start off with hands where I loss a big pot.

i was at a full 6max game, when it seemed like everybody started to just vacate the room. The villain was the only player left. The first hand heads-up he raised me from the BTN. In my mind he had an aggressive (maybe even overly aggressive) image.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em, $0.25 BB (2 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Hero (SB) ($26.65)
Button ($22.90)

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q, K
Button raises to $1, Hero calls $0.75

I decided to just call and let the villain take the lead. I wanted a flop where I would hit TP and have the villain in a situation where he had TP weak kicker.

Flop: ($2) 8, 4, Q (2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets $1, Hero calls $

I really like this flop. I figured the villain has top pair weaker kicker. QJ or Q10 maybe. Seeing how aggressive he was playing AQ+, KK, AA were possible but I thought unlikely. If he had it I was willing to go broke.

Turn: ($4) 4 (2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets $3, Hero raises to $6, Button raises to $20.90 (All-In), Hero calls $14.90

The turn was a little tough. Could the villain really have a 4 in this spot. A4s was the only hand that made sense. I had only played a few hands against the villain so I didn’t know how wide he was open raising. I finally decided to call his shove because in my mind he has a loose aggressive image. Also there were very few hands that had me beat in this spot.

River: ($45.80) 7 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: $45.80 | Rake: $1

This post about the hand with the biggest loss, therefore I obviously didn’t win at showdown. I’m not going to post the villain’s hand, but have you comment on what hands you think are in his range and what decision you would make at the decision points.

Till next time
Sam

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