small sessions

had a small opening to play a few hands two nights and ended up winning a little bit over 500ish hands. i was trying to fix my pt db at the same time so i played exceptionally nitty over the sample. here's the only hand i got stacked on and i think villain played it well if he had a good read on me.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2169989 - pre-flop is standard. on the flop i've been scaling back on my c-betting frequency but even into two players this board is so dry that it's hard for them to hit it. surprisingly they both call and i'm pretty much done with the hand unless i improve. turn gives me a gutter ball to the nuts and i don't see any value in betting here. if i had gotten only one caller i might double barrell this turn since i get floated by a lot of mid pairs on boards like this that will probably give up after the second broadway hits. so i take the free card hoping to hit a Ten and to a lesser extent an Ace or King. so the river now gives me tptk but on a bit of an ugly board. my first inclination was to just show it down but i can't really put anyone on a hand that beats me and checks it twice. so i decide to fire out a smallish value bet to try and entice a Jack or weak Queen to call. when i get c/r'd i wanted to die. three things led me to calling here: a) although i've never seen this player make a c/r river bluff i think it could be part of his arsenal b) my river bet looks extremely weak c) i can't put him on any hand that beats me with that line.

last nite i hopped on for a quick little one hour session and it was kinda sick. the end result was losing close to 4 buy-ins. here's all the big hands.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2177316 - the good

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2177321 - the bad (part 1)
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2177327 - the bad (part 2)
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2177332 - the bad (part 3)
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2177341 - the bad (part 4)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2177351 - the ugly. villain does not cold call raises often so i really put him on a smallish to med pair that he's not comfortable re-raising with or maybe even an AQ or AJ. on the flop im just calling since if he does have a hand like 77, 88... i don't want to stop him from betting and he only has 2 outs to beat me. also i still have the pre-flop raiser to act and he could be going for a c/r on this flop w/ a big hand. on the turn once again im just check/calling. im not scared of a flush and if he does have the range i think he does, im not getting any more value from raising. on the river i think i should be leading out here since the majority of the time he will give up and hope to show down against a flush draw and if he does have something like 99 he might call thinking im bluffing a busted flush draw. anyways, i checked, he shoved and i was very surprised to see AA.

i'll be playing a nice long session tonight and should be able to sneak in a mtt or two on the side.

tg