Wave of Mutilation

What's up. I'm still making a few smallish mistakes at 5/10 but I feel really good about my game and I'm recognizing and fixing those mistakes before I even need to have Krantz or someone else shed the light. Just have a couple of hands I wanted to share and yip yap run my mouth about. I was going to do it like the old days and go with biggest pot, lolololest hand, sickest Bilo retardation etc. but I don't have enough interesting hands yet. I may do that in the future but for now, this is what we got :D

Concept #1: Slow the fuck down when your opponent is obviously exploitably check/folding if you want ANY action with your good hands.

There are going to be a lot of times when you want to just bet and take the pot down because they c/f too much as the preflop raiser, you should definitely keep doing that. There are going to be a lot of times when you have a marginal hand or a draw and you likewise want to take it down. Keep doing that. If you have a very strong hand, like in the example I'm going to show you, or if you have a hand that's almost always best AND not that likely to be outdrawn, (think KJs on K28r or something where the best air they can have is AQ w/3 outs). you should consider slowplaying instead of betting like Old fuckin' Yeller. You know that foaming at the mouth dog that had rabies and couldn't wait to sink his teeth in? What happened to him? Shit didn't end well, he died and got no value from his hand. So....

  

So yeah, villain here is a loose player, very likely recreational. He's going to be c/folding this flop a lot, he's just got so many combinations of total air here that he can't continue with, that unless you know he's a total check/call station when he has initiative, it'd be a crime to bet here. On the turn he leads and though he can be pure bluffing, there's a lot of draws he can have in this spot as well, and we DO want to build the pot w/our quadzies just in case. On the river I overbet jam because that T fits so nicely with his range for calling on the turn, he can have any 6 any J and I doubt he's folding them (he may even call w/worse than that, if he's really bad) because he's a recreational player in the dimension of looking at his straight and thinking, "damn it feels good to be a gangsta, CALL!" rather than "I R REG BOT, NO BLUFF IN RANGE, HAND BLUFFCATCH % CaLCuLaTI0N -.... 2l349080@!!*%)#89K = FINAL ANALYSIS = FOLD FOLD FOLD FOLD FOLD FOLD FOLD FOLD" (They process this shit must faster in real time)

Full Tilt Poker $5/$10 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players - View hand 866623
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SB: $1000.00
BB: $1314.00
UTG: $1303.00
MP: $1297.00
CO: $985.50
Hero (BTN): $1025.00

Pre Flop: ($15.00) Hero is BTN with 7 7
2 folds, CO raises to $35, Hero calls $35, 2 folds

Flop: ($85.00) 8 7 7 (2 players)
CO checks, Hero checks

Turn: ($85.00) 9 (2 players)
CO bets $50, Hero raises to $160, CO calls $110

River: ($405.00) T (2 players)
CO checks, Hero bets $830 all in, CO calls $790.50 all in

Final Pot: $1986.00
CO mucks 6 A
Hero shows 7 7 (four of a kind, Sevens)
Hero wins $1983.00
(Rake: $3.00)

Concept #2: When showdown value doesn't get the job done vs. a face up hand, BLUFF! Put pressure on your opponents and make them make a difficult decision. Even if they make the correct one this time, they'll probably fuck it up somewhere down the line if you set it up well. 

Basically when you know your opponent has a weak hand, and you have some sort of pair or A high, if it's not going to show down profitably vs. their showdown hand range, you should put a lot of pressure on them and bluff the hell out of them. You can do this other times, when you have semi-bluffs and such, and I think people do a much better job of bluffing then, than when they don't have a hand that can show down well and try to anyway.

Be like this dude here....

   

I want you to throw barrels. 

Here's the HH, basically I float the flop because my opp cbets too frequently in situations like this, and on the turn when they c/c I'm damn sure this player is never slowplaying on this type of board texture, the only question is do I bluff the river or not. There may be some cards I decide to give up on, like a card that pairs the board and doesn't complete the flush, I may just give up there, basically if I think the card increases my fold equity I'm going to bluff, and if I think he's going to think his hand is still good or that I have enough bluffs in my range enough of the time for him to call, I'm going to give up. This is going to vary from player to player and situation to situation so you MUST weather the storm ACTIVELY and pay attention. 

Full Tilt Poker $5/$10 No Limit Hold'em - 5 players - View hand 866635

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Hero (BB): $1954.00
UTG: $891.00
CO: $1000.00
BTN: $1392.00
SB: $1691.00

Pre Flop: ($15.00) Hero is BB with 4 8
3 folds, SB raises to $30, Hero calls $20

Flop: ($60.00) 5 4 T(2 players)
SB bets $45, Hero calls $45

Turn: ($150.00) 6(2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $110, SB calls $110

River: ($370.00) K(2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $315, SB folds

Final Pot: $370.00
Hero wins $367.00
(Rake: $3.00)

That's it. No crazy shit to yabber on about, just wanted to post some poker content. I love this game :)

*Props to Ring King and Donkey Kong for chillin' with me.