Matt Vaughan
King of Moody Rants
Bronze Level
@duggs: Agreed I basically rep no air except for maybe exactly 54cc, and probably only half a combo of it lol. I know what you mean about raising the flop, but based on his sizing I actually thought he was more likely to already have two pair on the flop. But in retrospect that's narrowing his range too much, and a flop raise might be better since we're deep and he's unlikely to fold TP OTF.
Your question about whether I fold if I face a raise behind is a tricky one. Bottom set does kind of suck in that way. I think there are 0 combos of T3, 9 combos of T6, 3 combos of 63, and 3 combos of 66. I think that either of the people behind me would raise any two pair (if they raise a set). The two other villains were on the shorter side, so if I face a raise and end up HU, I probably just try to get the money in.
@stately: I'm reluctant to try to give off fake tells, as they can sometimes backfire if you don't know exactly how villain will interpret them. Personally, when I see two things that don't match - looking confused/worried, then betting enormous - I usually interpret it as extreme strength (and it usually is). As for repping TP, I don't think we rep any Kx at all with this line. As duggs says, we have no air, and I think it's also clear that our value range is pretty narrow. I didn't raise pre, so pretty much the only Kx in my perceived range is going to be something like K9-KJ, and I certainly don't call the flop with any of that range.
I think this is probably just one of those spots where I was up against a half-decent opponent and I wasn't going to get much more out of him than I did. Maybe on a bad day he'd look me up for a $150 bet with a crying call, but it wouldn't be the standard.
He tabled KTo when he folded. I had headphones in at the time, and the table was discussing the hand, since I hadn't shown. The straddler from the hand says, "if it's air, it's air - it's going to be not air way more often than it's air though." It was pretty clear he didn't suck.
On a side-note, I was watching a video on live play that discussed table demeanor in the context of what to do after losing (or winning) a large pot. It talked about actually physically leaving the table after being involved in a big pot, not just to take a mental break (if you lost), but also to let tension at the table diffuse (particularly if you won). I chose to employ this after the 33 hand, and so far as I could interpret, it worked quite well. The villain from the hand was visibly distraught at the table after the hand, and I was obviously silent - the table was just a little less comfortable. I got up, walked around for 5-10 minutes and came back. The table was more comfortable again, and I actually ended up chatting with villain some - he was friendly to me, etc.
Just a few side thoughts. Might post another hand or two later this afternoon, but I'm also going to talk about something I want to make my new session focus.
Your question about whether I fold if I face a raise behind is a tricky one. Bottom set does kind of suck in that way. I think there are 0 combos of T3, 9 combos of T6, 3 combos of 63, and 3 combos of 66. I think that either of the people behind me would raise any two pair (if they raise a set). The two other villains were on the shorter side, so if I face a raise and end up HU, I probably just try to get the money in.
@stately: I'm reluctant to try to give off fake tells, as they can sometimes backfire if you don't know exactly how villain will interpret them. Personally, when I see two things that don't match - looking confused/worried, then betting enormous - I usually interpret it as extreme strength (and it usually is). As for repping TP, I don't think we rep any Kx at all with this line. As duggs says, we have no air, and I think it's also clear that our value range is pretty narrow. I didn't raise pre, so pretty much the only Kx in my perceived range is going to be something like K9-KJ, and I certainly don't call the flop with any of that range.
I think this is probably just one of those spots where I was up against a half-decent opponent and I wasn't going to get much more out of him than I did. Maybe on a bad day he'd look me up for a $150 bet with a crying call, but it wouldn't be the standard.
He tabled KTo when he folded. I had headphones in at the time, and the table was discussing the hand, since I hadn't shown. The straddler from the hand says, "if it's air, it's air - it's going to be not air way more often than it's air though." It was pretty clear he didn't suck.
On a side-note, I was watching a video on live play that discussed table demeanor in the context of what to do after losing (or winning) a large pot. It talked about actually physically leaving the table after being involved in a big pot, not just to take a mental break (if you lost), but also to let tension at the table diffuse (particularly if you won). I chose to employ this after the 33 hand, and so far as I could interpret, it worked quite well. The villain from the hand was visibly distraught at the table after the hand, and I was obviously silent - the table was just a little less comfortable. I got up, walked around for 5-10 minutes and came back. The table was more comfortable again, and I actually ended up chatting with villain some - he was friendly to me, etc.
Just a few side thoughts. Might post another hand or two later this afternoon, but I'm also going to talk about something I want to make my new session focus.
