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Two Pair
Tonight I broke a cardinal rule. I played outside of my bankroll.
Tonight I hit the one-week mark of moving up from $200NL to $500NL, and, while there have been some swings, I've been really happy with the results I've been getting. I'm really adamant about having at least 20+ buy-ins for whatever game I'm playing, but I allowed myself to try playing a single $5/$10NL table just to see how things would go. I feel like I'm generally good about not trying to play through downswings, but, when it happens, I'll get up, go get some air, then review some hands. I allowed myself ONE buy-in so that, if I lost it, I would still be fine. All that being said, I know that this was an irresponsible move on my part and it's not something that I plan on keeping up. But enough of that; let's get into this hand because I think that the line used was really interesting (no bragging intended).
Hero and Villain have been absolutely smashing into each other tonight. Earlier in the session, Villain beat Hero out of a good-size pot with a flopped set against top two (AQ). Villain is ridiculously aggressive. Like, almost 90% aggression stats. Any time that he gets checked to, he bets without fail. What's harder is that Villain has position on Hero in almost every hand. Villain also has a VPIP of OVER 60% and he NEVER folds to just one bet. He's playing a lot of hands, and he's playing them hard. He is also floating in position, and he's doing it a lot. Finally, Hero has noticed that Villain likes to bet big when he's not very strong. Villain has the effective stack of ~$1750.
So Hero is in the HJ and sees and raises to $30. CO folds, Villain calls, and SB and BB fold. Pot is $75.
The flop comes . This is where our plan to make ourselves look like we're drawing starts. We c-bet small (like all the cool kids are doing nowadays) to $29 and Villain calls. Pot is $133 and we go to the turn.
The turn brings the . Now, given that Villain will bet for us and does not like to fold whatsoever, we opt to check here. Villain bets $110. Presto! It's working! Pot is $243, Villain has ~$1550 behind, and we have to figure out how to maximize value. Hero chooses to re-raise big here since we know that Villain hates folding once he has money in the pot and is pretty incapable of folding TP. Hero raises to $400, and Villain snap calls. Pot is $1043, and we go to the river with Villain having just over ~$1100 behind.
River is . Now we have to decide how to keep up the act and make Villain think we've missed any draws that we could've had, but we also can't check because we don't want him checking behind. My thought process is that something around 1/2 pot could work because, at least online, it's often construed as weak, so Hero bets $500 and Villain doesn't tank for one second before calling and we drag a pot of just over $2k! I think the fact that I read him for exactly KQ (which he showed) and the fact that I got him to pay me off with it made me happier than the pot itself!
I ended the session with just below $6k in profit, and I honestly can't believe it. Sincerely, I don't mean to sound like a braggart, but I was really happy to see that I held my own and beat the game. It's insane just how different $5/$10 is from $2/$5.
I know that this is a long post, and if you read the whole thing, then thank you! If you did, I would love to hear your thoughts and how you think this could've been played differently or what you would've done!
Thanks again!
Tonight I hit the one-week mark of moving up from $200NL to $500NL, and, while there have been some swings, I've been really happy with the results I've been getting. I'm really adamant about having at least 20+ buy-ins for whatever game I'm playing, but I allowed myself to try playing a single $5/$10NL table just to see how things would go. I feel like I'm generally good about not trying to play through downswings, but, when it happens, I'll get up, go get some air, then review some hands. I allowed myself ONE buy-in so that, if I lost it, I would still be fine. All that being said, I know that this was an irresponsible move on my part and it's not something that I plan on keeping up. But enough of that; let's get into this hand because I think that the line used was really interesting (no bragging intended).
Hero and Villain have been absolutely smashing into each other tonight. Earlier in the session, Villain beat Hero out of a good-size pot with a flopped set against top two (AQ). Villain is ridiculously aggressive. Like, almost 90% aggression stats. Any time that he gets checked to, he bets without fail. What's harder is that Villain has position on Hero in almost every hand. Villain also has a VPIP of OVER 60% and he NEVER folds to just one bet. He's playing a lot of hands, and he's playing them hard. He is also floating in position, and he's doing it a lot. Finally, Hero has noticed that Villain likes to bet big when he's not very strong. Villain has the effective stack of ~$1750.
So Hero is in the HJ and sees and raises to $30. CO folds, Villain calls, and SB and BB fold. Pot is $75.
The flop comes . This is where our plan to make ourselves look like we're drawing starts. We c-bet small (like all the cool kids are doing nowadays) to $29 and Villain calls. Pot is $133 and we go to the turn.
The turn brings the . Now, given that Villain will bet for us and does not like to fold whatsoever, we opt to check here. Villain bets $110. Presto! It's working! Pot is $243, Villain has ~$1550 behind, and we have to figure out how to maximize value. Hero chooses to re-raise big here since we know that Villain hates folding once he has money in the pot and is pretty incapable of folding TP. Hero raises to $400, and Villain snap calls. Pot is $1043, and we go to the river with Villain having just over ~$1100 behind.
River is . Now we have to decide how to keep up the act and make Villain think we've missed any draws that we could've had, but we also can't check because we don't want him checking behind. My thought process is that something around 1/2 pot could work because, at least online, it's often construed as weak, so Hero bets $500 and Villain doesn't tank for one second before calling and we drag a pot of just over $2k! I think the fact that I read him for exactly KQ (which he showed) and the fact that I got him to pay me off with it made me happier than the pot itself!
I ended the session with just below $6k in profit, and I honestly can't believe it. Sincerely, I don't mean to sound like a braggart, but I was really happy to see that I held my own and beat the game. It's insane just how different $5/$10 is from $2/$5.
I know that this is a long post, and if you read the whole thing, then thank you! If you did, I would love to hear your thoughts and how you think this could've been played differently or what you would've done!
Thanks again!
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