Good Afternoon
Day two is in the books and the results read a bit different from yesterday:
Hands: 1509
Profit: -$0.84
All-in EV: $17.96 (repaying yesterday's run good)
VPIP: 23.27
PFR: 19.66
3Bet: 7.11
Fold to 3be: 85.37t
The fold to 3bet is probably too high but it is unlikely to be a massive issue in this game. Will try to adjust that though. The session went OK I am happy enough with how I played it.
This hand did some damage (I was not able to get it on Boom as when the money went in my opponent cashed out which stops the Boom player from showing it seems). The hand plays itself though
PokerStars - $0.10 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4:
http://www.pokertracker.comBTN: 161.2 BB
SB: 100 BB
BB: 147.1 BB
Hero (UTG): 154.2 BB
MP: 101.5 BB
CO: 231.3 BB
SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has
As
Hero raises to 3 BB, fold, fold, fold, fold, BB raises to 6 BB, Hero raises to 30 BB, BB raises to 147.1 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 117.1 BB
Flop : (294.7 BB, 2 players)
Turn : (294.7 BB, 2 players)
River : (294.7 BB, 2 players)
BB cashed out 52.3 BB for a fee of 0.5 BB
BB shows
(Full House, Kings full of Sixes)
(Pre 19%, Flop 91%, Turn 95%)
Hero shows
As (Two Pair, Aces and Sixes)
(Pre 81%, Flop 9%, Turn 5%)
My tracker says he cashed out for 52.3BB which is $5.23. Given that the pot was $29.47 before rake and $28.14 after rake and he has 19% equity which is $5.34 cashing out is going to be -EV. This is pretty much always the case long term it makes more sense to just click resume hand.
https://www.boomplayer.com/32879830_26CB07EF2FNot sure if I like how I play this hand or not. Preflop and the flop are fine. When we hit the ace on the turn we have to feel like we have the best hand. We bet half the pot which is OK. Maybe we can go bigger, the space draw completes on the river and we check/call a half pot bet. I think we should either check/fold or bet/fold here as he has a lot of flush draws, probably a mistake there.
https://www.boomplayer.com/32879848_9C91AF0FDCI win this hand but think I should raise his flop lead with the over pair. QQ beats his range well enough so it should be an easy raise I think. The turn shuts down the action although I didn't think he had a King that often unless it is KJ there did not seem to be much value in a river bet. Think I lose some money in this hand.
https://www.boomplayer.com/32879945_52EA277018This hand is a bit of a session saver but is I think an interesting one. We start the hand really deep 280BB effective. AK is a raise and he makes the call with QJ. The flop is A-K-3 with 2 clubs. I have top two pair making it hard for him to have anything, although there are some draws so I want to bet. I bet about 40% of the pot hoping to get some value from worse aces and maybe a king. He calls and the turn is a ten which is his gin card. I dislike the ten as I know that he can have QJ here but there are lots of other hands he can have here like flush draws. I decide I need to charge the flush draws which it feels like he can have so I bet just over half pot. He calls. I think his call here is quite a big mistake. When we are this deep and you have the nuts you have to build the pot. In position he was clearly intending to raise the river but I raise would have put me in a tough spot. I would probably have had to call and check/call the river unless he really takes off. As it is I could have just bet/folded the river and got away quite cheap. The river card is really bad for him though. It is literally the worst card in the deck for his hand. The flush got there and any 2 pair ace hand or set just got there. I now have the nuts and therefore bet out almost the full part thinking I can get a call from a flush. He clicks it back which is just bad with his hand. It is so small that I am going to have to call with the flush. I actually now think he might have flopped a set of threes or just be overplaying the flush. I got all-in to try and make him make a big mistake with a flush or set. He call off with the straight. Here I think he has basically got married to his hand on the turn and just refuses to believe the river has killed his hand. I suppose we all do it sometimes.
Basically, a break-even session. I actually got a chest that I opened and it gave me $1 so that takes me into profit for the session (woohoo).
I have enjoyed the last couple of days and hope I maintain the games, my games still seems to be OK for holdem cash. Played the PLO mini games last night on Party but did not cash, think I played OK though but it was really just standard spots. Will probably play again tonight in the 8pm game. Not sure I want to play the main games quite yet as I really need to do some work on the tournament game. Going to just get through the hands for this week first and see if we end up in profit then go from there.
Watched your couple of videos last night and to be fair you give a nice commentary and it was interesting. Stu also gives entertaining interactive commentary on Twitch - maybe you should try that and we can abuse you in the commentary box
Thing is Stu is very good at that. I don't think I really have his ability to keep it interesting unless people are really interested in poker theory. The youtube videos are helpful to watch back and I might do some longer ones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_uYsl9ZEYc&feature=youtu.be Part 1 today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1ve9qjuu-Y Part2 today
I will leave it there, stay safe all.