plo weekend

played quite a bit friday nite and saturday and recorded about 1900 hands in total. i think i played a little sloppy on saturday and kind of went against my rule of playing tired. i made close to 5 buy-ins at .25/.50 but lost 2 buy-ins in the span of 74 hands playing .50/1.00. the loss at .50/1.o0 was mostly due to 2 hands, once firing two barrels and giving up on the river and the second flipping pre w/ aces vs aces. the only reason i played .50/1.00 was because there were only 2 tables of .25/.50 going and i wanted to maximize my playing time.


i was hoping to stick strictly to .25/.50 till i got to 10k hands because im kinda anal when it comes to playing and sticking to certain limits. i don't like to spread limits during sessions as it lends itself to playing poor at the smaller limit since the gains and losses are less significant than the higher limit being played simultaneously. it's not necessarily a money thing, just more of a physcological thing.


anyways, here are the big/interesting hands from the weekend. some of the bigger pots i won i feel i played poorly and probably should have been folding instead of shoving/calling and some of the big pots i lost i thought i played well so screw being good at poker.



http://www.pokerhand.org/?1514739 - not sure if i should be folding to the 2nd raise pre or not. i don't think i can fold the flop since the lead out from that player could be anything.



http://www.pokerhand.org/?1514745 - none of my draws/made hand are all that strong but put together it's a decent spot to get the money in. i have 54% equity against his actual hand and if i give him something like top set i'm still 49%.



http://www.pokerhand.org/?1514755 - c/r the turn since i figured him for draw or a dry Queen that he would feel comfortable betting after i show weakness. unfortunately his dry Q is better than mine but i suck out. (22.5% on the turn to win)



http://www.pokerhand.org/?1514757 - here im playing heads-up since the table broke down and i thought i had an edge on the guy. not sure what he's doing here on the turn. i thought this was standard but just looking at it now im not sure how much i like my turn bet. checking behind on the turn to induce a river bluff might be better.



http://www.pokerhand.org/?1514758 - fairly standard c-bet w/ a little potential, decent card on the turn and without getting raised i should probably check/call the river.



http://www.pokerhand.org/?1514759 - quads are hard to play.



http://www.pokerhand.org/?1514762 - pretty standard i think.



http://www.pokerhand.org/?1514768 - wow, i c/r the river a lot.



http://www.pokerhand.org/?1514793 - meh, i suck at 52/48's.



http://www.pokerhand.org/?1514797 - the flop isn't too bad for me so i decided to raise his weak lead. i exude some rookie hand reading skills and couldn't put a hand together that he would play like that. i thought he 3-bet a set all-in on the flop and i doubted he would lead call like that with a bare nut flush draw. im toast the whole way.



http://www.pokerhand.org/?1514801 - butchered this hand. i had been flopping a lot of sets and having the most horrendous turn card fall that i got frustrated and just threw my money at this pot. he basically gives me a cheap price to fill up and i shove on it. i think i can call the turn bet and fold if i don't improve.



http://www.pokerhand.org/?1514802 - i was pissed at myself when i raised this. my immediate thoughts after are to just call and fold the turn unimproved but when running the sim i actually have 48% equity against the nuts. if he would have had top set though my equity drops to like 38%.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1514805 - i don't usually put villains on slow played flopped sets or straights when the flop has a flush draw and they don't raise. im not folding this hand on the turn though. i'm still 40% equity against 54xx here.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1514808 - standard for everyone to get it in here. i had no idea that i would actually be a favorite in this situation with 52% equity. it helps that they both have sets since it blocks some of there boat outs. against just top set we'd pretty much be a 50/50. on the turn i'm close to 81% after hitting my straight but the re-draw gets there.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1514815 - we both get it in with the nuts and re-draws. my re-draw is stronger though giving me 60% equity in the hand. unfortunately his comes in and mine misses.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1514817 - i hate life and money. i totally botched the river here. as soon as he check/called the turn i thought there was a good chance he had the nut flush yet i get greedy and try to extract more on the river.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1514820 - meh, felt like he was slow playing a 3 or a boat. wrong read but good laydown none the less.

end post.

tg