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Message: [QUOTE="Matt Vaughan, post: 2311092, member: 34747"] Great perspective as always, Sand. It's a goal of mine to start recording more of my hands so I have more of them to post and I don't have to rely on memory as much. I do have a few hands from the last session that I want to post. I think I played damn close to flawlessly this last session, aside from the very last hand, which I'm a bit annoyed with myself about. But as you suggested, I am thinking about how much more broke any of those other players would have been in my spot. I guarantee it would have been much more than 2 BI's. This session was another one where I won a few pots early, and then it all went downhill from there. This hand was literally my first one played at the table. I waited a hand instead of buying the button (seriously, who pays $3 to see 8 hands when you can see 6 hands for free??), so I was in the CO. [B]Preflop[/B]: :6s4: :7s4: An unknown ($150) opens to $15 from MP, and there are 2 callers (both with about $200) to me. I actually consider folding here, since my sessional goal is preflop awareness, but I decided since there weren't really any short stacks at the table, it was a good spot to flat from the CO. The BTN and the SB flatted behind me, sending us to the flop 5-ways. [B]Flop: ($70) :jh4: :5h4: :4s4: (5 players)[/B] Interesting flop. It's two tone so I'm not looking to go crazy, but I do have an open-ended straight draw and a backdoor flush draw, so I expect to have to make some marginal call vs. fold decisions. Luckily for me, it checks to the preflop raiser, who bets $15. It's called to me, I obviously call, getting a sick 6.7:1, and we go 5-way to the turn. [B]Turn: ($145) :5c4: (5 players)[/B] Not the best card in the deck for me on first inspection, since theoretically it could mean I'm drawing dead. But realistically I think there are no sets in anyone's range on the flop, so probably no boats on the turn, since I think both sets and 2 pairs raise the flop or bet bigger. Checks to the preflop raiser, who checks. The next guy to act bets $10, and everyone calls. We go 5-way to the river. [B]River: ($195) :3d4: (5 players)[/B] My money card. It checks around to me, and while I knew the pot was large, I miscalculated it slightly, thinking it was closer to $150 than $200. I also felt like the strongest hand in the field was probably 2 pair (with the 2nd pair on the board), so I decided to bet relatively small with $55. It folds to the SB, who snap-sigh-calls, and everyone else folds. I show my hand, and he mucks, grumbling about having a Q and me getting there or something. Not sure how he thought 1-pair was ever good vs. that bet, though he probably had KQ+ tbf. Overall I felt this hand was pretty standard, but I was happy with how I played it nonetheless. In this next hand, I didn't have much info on the villain at all, except that he was relatively tight, and therefore hadn't been involved in much action postflop: [B]Preflop[/B]: :as4: :td4: One limper to me, and I make it $15 in MP, since my $12 raises hadn't been getting as many folds as I'd wanted. The slightly larger size didn't deter anyone though, and we went 4-way to the flop, with me 3rd to act. [B]Flop: ($60) :10c4: :9h4: :5c4: (5 players)[/B] Pretty good flop with a strong likelihood for action, given the wetness. The SB checks, but to my surprise, and slight alarm, the BB leads for pot, a $60 bet. I'm next to act, and am struggling to think of any hand I am ahead of. The bet sizing is indicative of reasonable strength, and looks like a "protection" type bet on a wet board. I rarely if ever see players lead this size with draws or one pair hands, so I'm skeptical of using that as an excuse. Plus I'm about $300 deep with this player, so what're my options here anyway? Raise? Flat? Every option looks terrible, and I still don't think he plays anything worse this way. I grudgingly fold. Frankly, this hand actually seems pretty standard to me. I certainly don't like folding top pair on the flop in a single-raised pot facing a single bet (not a x/r or something), but it just seemed so cut-and-dried, and like a great spot to make an exploitative fold. [spoiler]Villain showed T5s for flopped two pair.[/spoiler] This next hand was a more interesting spot. The main villain had been making a lot of bets postflop, and hadn't been getting called much. The times when she was getting called, she usually had it, but it seemed like she was betting in spots where she sensed weakness. [B]Preflop[/B]: :ac4: :qc4: I open UTG+1 to $12, and get 2 callers, one in position and the main villain in the BB. We go 3 way to the flop. [B]Flop: ($35) :qh4: :8c4: :7s4: (3 players)[/B] Obviously a pretty good flop for me. Villain checks to me, I bet $20, and only the villain calls. HU to the turn. [B]Turn: ($75) :jd4: (2 players)[/B] Not a great card, not a terrible one. T9 gets there, but if she has gutshots in her range then the rest of her gutshots just made 2nd pair. She checks, and I bet $40 for value, and she calls. [B]River: ($155) :7d4: (5 players)[/B] Villain leads for $50. Normally this looks like a fairly nutted line and my first impression was to sigh-fold, but I can't assign any value hands to the line at all. Because of the nature of the board, most two pair hands and straights raise the flop or turn. Plus I'm not sure, but I don't think she holds on with just bottom pair for two streets, so I discount most 7x. I tank for a while, trying to make sure I didn't miss something obvious in my thought process, and I call. Curious what you guys think on that one because tbh it was one of the spots I was least sure about when it was actually happening. The night went on, and I was primarily card dead, and when I wasn't card dead I was bricking flops, and when I wasn't bricking flops I wasn't getting any action. Whatever. Not really that big of a deal. But it was certainly mildly frustrating when I'd say, open J9s in the HJ, get 2 callers, flop a straight on QT8, and get zero action at all. And in a few hands, I had to fold pretty decent holdings. This hand is against the same villain as in the AT hand where I folded top pair facing his pot-sized donk bet on the flop (see spoiler for his hand, since it plays into my thought process here). [B]Preflop[/B]: :jh4: :jd4: Weeeeeeee, I finally have a nice hand preflop (I know, I know, results oriented and not disciplined - working on it)!! It's a straddled pot, but it somehow folds around to the BTN, who is the main villain, and the villain from the AT hand. Villain thinks a few moments, and raises to $17, and I elect just to flat in the BB, not seeing much value in 3betting. The straddler calls as well, and we go 3-way to the flop [B]Flop: ($50) :8s4: :5s4: :4h4: (3 players)[/B] This is pretty much an ideal flop for me, but I don't really like taking a passive line and having to essentially bluff-catch from the beginning, so I decide to lead for $30. The straddler tank-folds, and the button villain snap-raises to $100. I snap-muck. [spoiler]He shows 55 for a flopped set.[/spoiler] Based on history in the current session vs. this villain, this looks pretty standard. Along with the AT hand, I had seen him raise an overpair to the board in a spot like this where someone led into him. I was putting him mostly on a tight preflop raising range, and when he raises the flop I think it's mostly QQ+. I didn't feel like putting my whole stack at risk was a great idea. There were a few more hands similar to the one just above, where I would either raise or flat pre with a pretty good hand, make a top pair or overpair hand on the flop, and either have to check-fold, bet-fold, or fold to a bet. Finally, I picked up a hand where I was able to make some value: [B]Preflop[/B]: :ks4: :kc4: Action is folded around to the god-mode villain in MP, who limps. There was an interesting dynamic at the table where people were making pretty large raises preflop, and the god-mode villain was calling with pretty much his whole limping range so I opted to raise pretty big, to $17. Everyone else folds, and the god-mode villain calls. We go HU to the flop: [B]Flop: ($35) :10d4: :4h4: :4s4: (2 players)[/B] God-mode villain checks to me, and I opt to check back. I think that his range is so wide here, and it's so hard for him to have anything (and the only bad turn card for me is an A), that I'd kind of like to let his rage "catch up," a little. I check it back. [B]Turn: ($35) :10c4: (2 players)[/B] Villain checks it to me again, and now I bet $25, knowing that it's pretty unlikely he has a T, and that my line looks pretty FOS. Villain quickly calls. [B]River: ($85) :3d4: (2 players)[/B] Villain checks to me, and I have a decision to make. I still doubt I'm behind that often, but I have to consider what will actually call me. I think he still has plenty of PP's in his range, so I suppose I still have to bet. But I don't want to bet massive and make him fold. I opt for a compromise of $55, and villain tanks for a little bit. "I know you have an ace," he says to me, and I realize now that he thinks I'm trying to fold him off a chop. It's unclear to me whether he says anything else, but he tables his hand: A2dd. In a previous hand, he had pushed his face-down cards forward a few inches, waited a few seconds, then started counting out calling chips, but the dealer had swept his cards into the muck in that time. The cards were not retrievable, and it had been a very clear muck. This movement to me was ambiguous though, so I chose to not react, waiting to see what the dealer would do. The dealer hesitated, but began to reach forward for the cards... "Woah, woah, woah, what are you doing?!" Exploded the god-mode villain. "I said call!!" Wait, what? I waited another moment. I hadn't heard him say call. Neither had the dealer. And I wasn't about to expose my hand before I knew what was going on. "I said call," the villain insisted, and the dealer acquiesced, indicating it was a call. I tabled my hand, and the villain started fidgeting uncomfortably, and mumbling to himself. I couldn't believe my good fortune. The pot shipped to me, and I was feeling pretty good about my thought process, and was especially happy the dealer wasn't as fast mucking the cards this time around. I went card dead for a good while after this. A few regs had sat down, but the table was still anything but dead. The god-mode villain two seats to my right made for a profitable seat, given how fast-and-loose he was playing both pre- and post-flop. I'd lost a few medium-sized pots, and was sitting with roughly a $190 stack when I was dealt kings again. [B]Preflop[/B]: :kc4: :kh4: God-mode villain was in the straddle, and given the table dynamics, I doubted there was much he was going to fold. I opened to $30 second to act, and it snap-folded around to the straddler, who fidgeted some before finally shrug-calling. It looked like a pretty marginal spot, so I was ready to bomb almost any flop. [B]Flop: ($60) :qh4: :6d4: :5s4: (2 players)[/B] A story-book flop for me, and villain quickly checked to me. I lead for $45, not wanting there to be any ambiguity in my turn bet-size decision. Villain tanks for a little bit, and just calls. This is good. He is playing pretty face up, so a x/r would have been a monster, but a tank-call looks like a marginal hand. [B]Turn: ($150) :10c4: (2 players)[/B] Villain thinks for approximately a half a second... and announces all in. I shake my head a few moments, thinking I must have gotten it wrong... I guess he has a Q and he thinks it's good. I call off the remaining $115 or so in my stack. [spoiler]He has T6o for flopped 2nd pair and turned two pair, and and I can't bink two pair or a set on the river.[/spoiler] [/QUOTE]

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