New Blog Memorial Day weekend 2011

Well, its been about a year since I wrote.. couldnt stay away any longer.. I have been playing on Gr88 and Feltstars recently and doing ok. I also have been playing live and plan on playing more live poker in the next few weeks so i am going to be posting about my play there. My local poker room, In Jacksonville has secured the World Poker Tour for next spring as well as some smaller events so I want to be geared up to play some events.

I had a hand in a 2-2NL game Friday night that I remembered well and I wanted to post about it. The table was full of weak players and I was primarily just waiting to snap off a couple of the larger stacks at the table. it litterally took me 90 minutes to win a hand, and then nothing much else for another hour or 2, but then i went on an unbelievable hand winning spree with anything I played. One legitimate hand i was in, i had AQ and raised to 10.00 from the button. I was called by 2 players and the Flop came out Qd6c4d, check check and I bet 15. The player on the blinds that called check raised me to 45.00. Our stacks were around 300 each. I really didnt think he was overly strong because i didnt think he would check raise me on the flop if he was. I put him maybe on a weaker Q, Q10,QJ, or QK. I figured he was testing me so I wanted to take it down right there. I reraised him to 115. I figured this amount because in a live game I could find out right there if this guy was for real or just testing. If he slammed it all in, I could fold and still be left with 165.00. Instead, as I expected he went into the tank and didnt like my reraise at all. He reluctantly called and i then put him on possibly a Q, but also maybe a pair and a flush draw or somethign. The turn was a beautiful 9c, he checked, pot was now about 260.00, and I went ahead and shoved in my 165.00. He went into the tank again and put me on QQ KK AA, but said I had him but he had outs, I said, are you on 10J diamonds? with 15 outs, i was worried, i looked down and no D in my hand so I knew he did have alot of outs. Anyway, he finally said he had 46d, flopped a pair and a flush draw and no help on the turn. He made a good decision to fold there and we didnt get to see the river.

When i got home I did some hand analysis on poker stove I thought I would share. On that flop with his hand he was a small favorite to win the hand and he made a good raise especially since it was good odds that I didnt have the Q. He was 52% vs my 48%.

When he called my raise though, and the 9c came out, he went down to 32% vs my 68%. I was in a much better position. Although, for him to call 165.00 to win a pot of 550.00, he probably had the odds to call that river bet and try to hit the 33%. Depends if you want to preserve your stack or if you have the bank to play the solid odds.

I'll be back posting my adventures again I hope youll read.

Wiz