Ben
Full House
OK, this has to be one of the oddest hands all around that I've ever played - I'm just going to recount a complete hand history, and you give me your thoughts on what you would have done differently (probably everything - I'm not sure I've ever taken a line quite like this before...)
Game is $5-on-the-button NLHE (no blinds, button posts $5 and is last to act preflop.) Hero is me, myself, and I - whatever that really means (I'm not even sure at this point...) This is only the 9th or 10th game I've played here, but villain has been at every one of them as far as I can remember. To this point I've never gone home a loser, but tonight (still pretty early on) I'm getting crushed - I've been stacked off twice on the river in cooler situations (one backdoor FH vs. my backdoor 3rd-nut flush, the other a turned flush-over-flush, and in both instances villains OOP decided to slowplay and C/R the river for trivial amounts, making me look like an idiot for calling off against the "obvious" nuts - or at least so it may seem to the villain.)
Villain is a solid TAG - emphasis more on the "T" than the "AG" in his case, but he is a good player with excellent poker IQ who is situationally and opponent-aware, though sometimes his bet-sizing could use work. Although tight, he is not going to sit and let himself be run over all night.
Hero starts hand with about $470, villain covers.
The hand:
This is a "splash pot" - the house places $20 in the pot preflop before any action (yes the game is raked, but mostly for casino-style promotions like splash pots and mini-BBJs. The actual house take is low and it is a great game.)
Villain posts $5 OTB. "SB" folds. "BB" (Hero) limps for $5 with![Kd :kd: :kd:](/styles/default/pcf/cards/kd.gif)
. Amazingly, only one other player in MP limps, everyone else folds. Villain checks his option on the button. ($35 pot)
Flop is![9c :9c: :9c:](/styles/default/pcf/cards/9c.gif)
![6h :6h: :6h:](/styles/default/pcf/cards/6h.gif)
. Hero leads for $20. MP player folds, villain raises to $45. Hero calls. ($125 pot)
Turn is
. Hero leads for $60, villain snap-calls. ($245 pot)
River is
. Hero leads for $60 (I honestly never thought I'd find a spot where I'd like the "same bet" play, but I did here...) Villain counts out a call, then raises to $150. Hero calls.
Sooo, who is folding pre? Raising pre? Checking flop? (That would be pretty bad I think - only thing I'm sure about in this hand...) Folding to the near-minraise? Check-folding turn? Check-calling turn? Leading bigger on turn? Leading bigger on river (are you value-betting or bluffing?) Check-folding river? Check-calling river?
So many questions - I honestly have no friggin' clue what the best move was at almost every decision point in this silly hand, and that feels weird.![Eek! :eek: :eek:](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png)
Game is $5-on-the-button NLHE (no blinds, button posts $5 and is last to act preflop.) Hero is me, myself, and I - whatever that really means (I'm not even sure at this point...) This is only the 9th or 10th game I've played here, but villain has been at every one of them as far as I can remember. To this point I've never gone home a loser, but tonight (still pretty early on) I'm getting crushed - I've been stacked off twice on the river in cooler situations (one backdoor FH vs. my backdoor 3rd-nut flush, the other a turned flush-over-flush, and in both instances villains OOP decided to slowplay and C/R the river for trivial amounts, making me look like an idiot for calling off against the "obvious" nuts - or at least so it may seem to the villain.)
Villain is a solid TAG - emphasis more on the "T" than the "AG" in his case, but he is a good player with excellent poker IQ who is situationally and opponent-aware, though sometimes his bet-sizing could use work. Although tight, he is not going to sit and let himself be run over all night.
Hero starts hand with about $470, villain covers.
The hand:
This is a "splash pot" - the house places $20 in the pot preflop before any action (yes the game is raked, but mostly for casino-style promotions like splash pots and mini-BBJs. The actual house take is low and it is a great game.)
Villain posts $5 OTB. "SB" folds. "BB" (Hero) limps for $5 with
![Kd :kd: :kd:](/styles/default/pcf/cards/kd.gif)
![9d :9d: :9d:](/styles/default/pcf/cards/9d.gif)
Flop is
![9c :9c: :9c:](/styles/default/pcf/cards/9c.gif)
![6h :6h: :6h:](/styles/default/pcf/cards/6h.gif)
![4d :4d: :4d:](/styles/default/pcf/cards/4d.gif)
Turn is
![Qs :qs: :qs:](/styles/default/pcf/cards/qs.gif)
River is
![Qc :qc: :qc:](/styles/default/pcf/cards/qc.gif)
Sooo, who is folding pre? Raising pre? Checking flop? (That would be pretty bad I think - only thing I'm sure about in this hand...) Folding to the near-minraise? Check-folding turn? Check-calling turn? Leading bigger on turn? Leading bigger on river (are you value-betting or bluffing?) Check-folding river? Check-calling river?
So many questions - I honestly have no friggin' clue what the best move was at almost every decision point in this silly hand, and that feels weird.
![Eek! :eek: :eek:](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png)