Wave of Mutilation

It was a dark and stormy night. I was awake and playing online poker in a cold dim room, the only source of light being the soft pale glow of a black wax candle stuck in rusted tin. Alright I’m kidding, this ain’t Medieval Times (though I have eaten a whole chicken with my bare hands before, GRARAOOOWWWL). I was going to start this blog out like a horror movie and it ended up colonial, my bad.

Played a short session this evening and had some pretty interesting hands, so I thought I’d post them and give/get some thoughts.

First hand I flat a 4b w/AA b/c I think my opponent is 4b bluffing a high % of the time (I had been very active in the last few orbits trying to smash the fish. I XRAI on this flop, which I was planning on doing on a ton of flops, I thought about leading this board really small to get him to spaz shove but most of the stuff he’s spaz shoving with he’s probably cbetting anyway, so I opt to just XR instead of lead raptor. Just posting this for entertainment more than anything else basically. I was like, SWEET! He’s drawing dead…. Oh no…. SLKjflsdjfSK!!!!! hehe. NO NO noNOnoNONoO.

Full Tilt Poker $3/$6 No Limit Hold’em – 4 players – View hand 389293
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BB: $706.00
CO: $600.00
BTN: $1435.10
Hero (SB): $603.00

Pre Flop: ($9.00) Hero is SB with A A
CO raises to $18, BTN calls $18, Hero raises to $68, 1 fold, CO requests TIME, CO raises to $162, 1 fold, Hero calls $94

Flop: ($348.00) J K A (2 players)
Hero checks, CO requests TIME, CO bets $186, Hero requests TIME, Hero raises to $441 all in, CO calls $252 all in

Turn: ($1224.00) 5 (2 players – 2 are all in)

River: ($1224.00) 4 (2 players – 2 are all in)

Final Pot: $1224.00
CO shows J K (a flush, Ace high)
Hero shows A A (three of a kind, Aces)
CO wins $1222.00
(Rake: $2.00)

Now that the fun is out of the way, what else do I have floating around?

Villain in this hand is 23/10, 1 tabling, not much history but he appears to be a live player based on what I have seen so far. I bet the flop even though I feel like I don’t have a lot of fold equity I definitely have great actual equity, and I think he’s going to peel with a lot of stuff. I could check the turn or triple barrel, I think a lot of live players are going to end up folding to 3 barrels here, so I bet the turn planning on folding to a raise, value betting thinly w/a 9 or a J, barreling any good overcards, and obv value betting a diamond. I get a terrible river b/c he’s never folding any pair at this point, so I check and fold. Thoughts?

Full Tilt Poker $3/$6 No Limit Hold’em – 5 players – View hand 389347
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CO: $126.00
BTN: $1030.00
Hero (SB): $603.00
BB: $610.50
UTG: $144.00

Pre Flop: ($9.00) Hero is SB with 9 J
3 folds, Hero raises to $18, BB calls $12

Flop: ($36.00) 4 7 3 (2 players)
Hero bets $24, BB calls $24

Turn: ($84.00) 3 (2 players)
Hero bets $60, BB calls $60

River: ($204.00) 3 (2 players)
Hero checks, BB bets $508.50 all in, Hero folds

Final Pot: $204.00
BB wins $201.00
(Rake: $3.00)

The last hand I want to talk about is a fairly interesting situation that doesn’t come up all that often. I flat X X in the bb, raise the K34r flop, and villain (note he’s the same villain in the AA hand from earlier, this hand was after and on a different table) 3b’s. I don’t think we have the kind of history it would take for him to 3b the flop for value, it seems like he’d be looking to flat value hands and let me bluff the turn or river, something along those lines. So riddle me this…. What does my hand/villain’s hand look like? What’s my range/villain’s range in this spot in your opinion? What’s going on here? Fwiw if you want stats I was playing like 33/28, fairly aggressive overall, villain is 24/22 and very aggressive/capable of plays etc. Only real history between us is the hand earlier, where he 4b KJ and I flat’d AA and he gin’d my face lol.

Full Tilt Poker $3/$6 No Limit Hold’em – 6 players – View hand 389351
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BTN: $592.50
SB: $1012.00
Hero (BB): $604.50
UTG: $663.45
MP: $998.90
CO: $165.00

Pre Flop: ($9.00) Hero is BB with X X
4 folds, SB raises to $18, Hero calls $12

Flop: ($36.00) 3 K 4 (2 players)
SB bets $25, Hero raises to $80, SB requests TIME, SB raises to $186, Hero calls $106

Turn: ($408.00) 8 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $400.50 all in, SB requests TIME, SB folds

Final Pot: $408.00
Hero wins $405.00
(Rake: $3.00)

I think that’s it for this dark and stormy evening friends. I’ll post more info if I get some responses :D