AR_poker
High Hand
Your friendly neighborhood spewer played a couple of fun ones last night. Here’s one of them.
*Appreciate any feedback/criticism/roasting!*
Background:
$0.25/$0.50 weekly home game with good friends. 5-handed. Villain (HJ) is my roommate/best friend. We talk poker a lot and have a history of getting into big pots together, and I think he’s a breakeven player in our regular game. Plays wide ranges at baseline. He generally has good instincts and likes to be aggressive if he senses a window for it, even if his range or specific hand have different incentives. Doesn’t really do any studying /etc. away from the table besides stuff like watching Poker After Dark, and can definitely take some unorthodox and spewy lines (though based on my last hand history, we appear to have that in common). When he’s stuck big, he’s prone to tilt shoves or frustration call-offs with questionable hands (e.g. calling off a 4bet shove pre-flop with AJo, 3bet ripping a weak 8 on a 998 flop, etc.). He lost $100 pretty much immediately to start the night, but now that we’re 2 hours in he’s clawed back for a small profit and has ~$240 in front. Back in better spirits. Hero is the effective stack with ~$170. Hero is also one of the shortest stacks at the table. Each player bought in for $50 to start the game, but with rebuys and add-ons we’re all sitting over 300 BBs deep.
Pre-flop:
HJ (villain) opens to $3
CO Folds
BTN (hero) calls with Td8d
SB folds
BB folds
Pre-flop thoughts:
Around 6x open has been the table standard. I think Td8d can go into either a calling range or a 3bet range pre-flop. I’m sure folding is fine given the price, but I’m more than happy to play this hand on the BTN. Villain opens too wide from all positions, and I’d mix a 3bet in this formation with suited connectors as low as 87 at some frequency. Villain has a decent idea of my 3bet range, and I’ve 3bet him twice already tonight in different formations (once with a bluff, once with value). One of those got through pre-flop, and the other I won with a flop c-bet. Definitely some merit to 3betting given how deep we are, and if we get 4bet it’s just a simple fold. I’m not scared of either of the players in the blinds. They’re the two weakest players of the five, will seldom 3bet, and will make mistakes post-flop if they come along. But given the game flow, I decide to flat and keep a favorable SPR for this sort of hand in position. Blinds fold. Let’s see a flop.
*Q: we just folding pre here? Flatting? 3betting?*
Flop:
($6.75 in pot)
Qd 9d Qh
Villain bets $3.50
Hero?
*Appreciate any feedback/criticism/roasting!*
Background:
$0.25/$0.50 weekly home game with good friends. 5-handed. Villain (HJ) is my roommate/best friend. We talk poker a lot and have a history of getting into big pots together, and I think he’s a breakeven player in our regular game. Plays wide ranges at baseline. He generally has good instincts and likes to be aggressive if he senses a window for it, even if his range or specific hand have different incentives. Doesn’t really do any studying /etc. away from the table besides stuff like watching Poker After Dark, and can definitely take some unorthodox and spewy lines (though based on my last hand history, we appear to have that in common). When he’s stuck big, he’s prone to tilt shoves or frustration call-offs with questionable hands (e.g. calling off a 4bet shove pre-flop with AJo, 3bet ripping a weak 8 on a 998 flop, etc.). He lost $100 pretty much immediately to start the night, but now that we’re 2 hours in he’s clawed back for a small profit and has ~$240 in front. Back in better spirits. Hero is the effective stack with ~$170. Hero is also one of the shortest stacks at the table. Each player bought in for $50 to start the game, but with rebuys and add-ons we’re all sitting over 300 BBs deep.
Pre-flop:
HJ (villain) opens to $3
CO Folds
BTN (hero) calls with Td8d
SB folds
BB folds
Pre-flop thoughts:
Around 6x open has been the table standard. I think Td8d can go into either a calling range or a 3bet range pre-flop. I’m sure folding is fine given the price, but I’m more than happy to play this hand on the BTN. Villain opens too wide from all positions, and I’d mix a 3bet in this formation with suited connectors as low as 87 at some frequency. Villain has a decent idea of my 3bet range, and I’ve 3bet him twice already tonight in different formations (once with a bluff, once with value). One of those got through pre-flop, and the other I won with a flop c-bet. Definitely some merit to 3betting given how deep we are, and if we get 4bet it’s just a simple fold. I’m not scared of either of the players in the blinds. They’re the two weakest players of the five, will seldom 3bet, and will make mistakes post-flop if they come along. But given the game flow, I decide to flat and keep a favorable SPR for this sort of hand in position. Blinds fold. Let’s see a flop.
*Q: we just folding pre here? Flatting? 3betting?*
Flop:
($6.75 in pot)
Qd 9d Qh
Villain bets $3.50
Hero?