DrStrange
4 of a Kind
Playing 1-2 live, five handed. It is very late in the session. The clock ticking down to 2:30 when we decided to call it a night. Less than ten hands left. By now the game is polarized, three winners feasting on two desperate losers.
Cast of characters:
Hero sits in the SB with $700. Hero has taken some tough punches and dealt hard blows in return this session but in the end Hero is ahead. The table is going to misread Hero's range a lot, remembering how Hero played at 10PM / nine handed and not considering how short handed we are. Respect means they aren't likely to raise lightly but folding is, as always, your last choice.
The BB has $325 on a huge buy in. He is on a long down swing, I don't know if he was won a session this year. BB is playing a lot fewer sessions to the down turn. BB is hyper-loose / somewhat passive preflop but the poster child for LAGtard post flop. He bets a lot and wins a lot of small pots but when he loses a pot, it leaves a mark. BB bets with 'something', maybe as weak as a gut shot or two over-cards rarely a stone cold bluff.
UTG is our old friend, Crazy playing $200 also on a huge buy in. Crazy is worn down this late in the session. His mortal foe went broke and left hours ago. He is still wild and crazy, but in a subdued way.
CO is an unlikely winner. He sits on about $1,000 and is doing quite well for the night. This is our classic calling station, though as his stack grows he develops more aggression, a few bold bluffs and some trickery. Still quite passive preflop, if he three-bets he is playing the top 1% - 2% of the range. Much more capable up $700 than when breakeven or down for the night.
The button is playing $1,100 or so and is the big winner tonight. Loose pre-flop / fit-fold post flop. He can be passive tricky. Willing to pay a chunk to see a flop, even vs Hero. Button is on a world-wide heater this year, likely winning at 5x his normal rate. We started joking with him that he could be a poker pro but I begin to wonder if he is starting to believe that now.
Button is going to make adjustments for 5-handed play. The other villains don't do that (though one might say they play ten handed like it was four handed.)
The hand:
Crazy straddles to $5. CO and Button call the straddle.
Action on Hero holding
. Raise, call or fold. If raising, how much and why. (In the last hour hero 3-bet to $30 in a similar situation holding a top ranked hand and got all but one villain to call. So if you are raising to thin the field, forget about it.)
DrStrange
Cast of characters:
Hero sits in the SB with $700. Hero has taken some tough punches and dealt hard blows in return this session but in the end Hero is ahead. The table is going to misread Hero's range a lot, remembering how Hero played at 10PM / nine handed and not considering how short handed we are. Respect means they aren't likely to raise lightly but folding is, as always, your last choice.
The BB has $325 on a huge buy in. He is on a long down swing, I don't know if he was won a session this year. BB is playing a lot fewer sessions to the down turn. BB is hyper-loose / somewhat passive preflop but the poster child for LAGtard post flop. He bets a lot and wins a lot of small pots but when he loses a pot, it leaves a mark. BB bets with 'something', maybe as weak as a gut shot or two over-cards rarely a stone cold bluff.
UTG is our old friend, Crazy playing $200 also on a huge buy in. Crazy is worn down this late in the session. His mortal foe went broke and left hours ago. He is still wild and crazy, but in a subdued way.
CO is an unlikely winner. He sits on about $1,000 and is doing quite well for the night. This is our classic calling station, though as his stack grows he develops more aggression, a few bold bluffs and some trickery. Still quite passive preflop, if he three-bets he is playing the top 1% - 2% of the range. Much more capable up $700 than when breakeven or down for the night.
The button is playing $1,100 or so and is the big winner tonight. Loose pre-flop / fit-fold post flop. He can be passive tricky. Willing to pay a chunk to see a flop, even vs Hero. Button is on a world-wide heater this year, likely winning at 5x his normal rate. We started joking with him that he could be a poker pro but I begin to wonder if he is starting to believe that now.
Button is going to make adjustments for 5-handed play. The other villains don't do that (though one might say they play ten handed like it was four handed.)
The hand:
Crazy straddles to $5. CO and Button call the straddle.
Action on Hero holding
. Raise, call or fold. If raising, how much and why. (In the last hour hero 3-bet to $30 in a similar situation holding a top ranked hand and got all but one villain to call. So if you are raising to thin the field, forget about it.)DrStrange
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and will catch the 
on the turn, or more likely in my case, the river. I don't feel like puking today, so I fold. 
