Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Few Hands = Tiny Profit

Played for about an hour today, not much going on. Mixed it up with some button steals and LP raises, trying to add hands and strategies to my arsenal. Here are two small hands I played today that I want to post. A few hands I wish I had from yesterday were not saved, not sure why. I wish I could find them though as well.



This was a pretty tight table, so I figured I could get away with raising KJ from LP. Stole the button which is where I wanted to be, and got one caller from the blinds. Didnt raise it too much, figured I could get a caller.

On the flop when it was checked to me I figured him for weak here. I figure I hit and I can try and represent the ace here. It seems like he is calling with a weaker ace or SD/FD.

The turn it seems like he is trying to float me, so I sat there for a little while and decided to raise a little bit. After it took him a little bit of deciding, he finally folded. No clue on what he had.



This hand here is when the table was breaking up. I wake up with Q10 suited in the BB and elect to check here 4 handed I believe.

On the flop I hit top pair with a decent/bad kicker here and a FD on the board. I decide its best to fire out and see where I stand. Maybe he is calling this with a FD

On the turn here I hit top two, and feel it is the best hand at this point because he probably would have raised a set on the flop with the FD possibility out there, and he may have a FD or weak queen. His raise seems like he may have a combo draw or some type of drawing hand here, and I figured he would be committed, so why not jam and hopefully get a call from him. He quickly folded which made me believe he was trying to bluff me here, or had a very weak hand.

Thats all for now, I am going to try and find those other few hands from yesterday and continue to grind out the NL10 tables until I get my check. I am excited about getting back to the NL25 and NL50 tables. Few reasons why I kept money on bodog. I only left $10 there so I can grind the NL10 tables. I am doing that pretty well. This way I can keep grinding and keep my head in the game, continuing to practice why I wait. Also, if bodog does every go under, I am pretty certain I will get paid whatever money I do have left on the site. And if they get there act together, I can use this as a withdrawal site rather than taking out from Full Tilt, that way I can keep building that roll. Who knows, I may let this roll grow.

1 comments:

NC said...

Hey there, a fellow micro grinder here!

Hand 1 (KJo)
I'm not sure I like the turn raise. If he was floating here, it was a bad float on his part since the 8 is definitly not a scare card. I think by raising here we only get called by hands that beat ours and will most likely make some hands we beat fold (stuff like KT or a smaller pocket pair). So here I would flat call the turn.

Hand 2 (QT)
Again I don't like the turn raise as again I think we're only called by hands that beat us. I think we're still ahead of most of his range and I wouldn't mind calling the turn and making a small value bet on the river.

Just my opinion though...