few 1/2 live NL hands

Gholimoli

Hand 1:
A bit of background on this hand.
I’ve been very selectively aggressive.i havnet been playing many hands but the hands that I have played ive done so very aggressively betting hard and haven’t shown down much.
I have recently shown a bluff where I’ve cold call a raise pre-flop,reraised a flop bet and got called and when opponent checked the turn I took it down with a big bet and then showed the bluff.
About one orbit before the hand in question happened a very similar hand happened as follows:
Im UTG and make a blind bet of 7.
Its folded to the BB who is a TAG player and calls the bet.
Flop comes down A88.
BB checks and I make a blind bet of 10.(BB knows im blind)
BB makes it 30.
I look down at my cards and make it 70.
BB thinks and calls.
Turn comes a J .
BB checks .i make a bet of 150.
BB folds.

Now the hand:
stacks
me:450 ish
villain :covers
Im UTG and make a bet of 7 on the blind.
A player who is semi loose pre-flop but very TAG post flop calls my bet and so does another loose player.
Flop(25 ish)
A33
I check on the blind and TAG player bets 10 .
Loosey folds and I look down at 53o and make it 30.
TAG then makes it 80 and I call.
Turn comes J and I push for 300 .TAG covers .
What do we think?


Hand 2:
The villain in the hand is the chief.
stakcs:
me:900
villain:500
I limp UTG+1 with A3s along with couple of more limpers and chief makes it 12.
I call as does another player.
Flop(30 ish)
783 two tone .
I lead for 20 .
One player folds and chief calls.

Turn(70)
3 putting a flush out there.
I check and chief bets 50 .
I call.

River(170)
K of another suit .
I check,chief bets 150 .
I call.
What do we think?

Hand 3:
I think I played this stupidly at the end.
The game is played in Drogheda where the games are very loose and bluffly.
I haven’t been at the table long but already have clashed with villain for a 60 pot where I raised on the button with Ax and bet on the flop of Ax x and got called and bet again on the turn and got called and bet again on the river and villain folded saying he did not believe that I had an A.

Hand:
stacks:
me:300
villain:about the same
Few limpers and I check my option on the BB with K5o after villain completes on SB.

Flop(10 ish)
KQ8
The hand gets checked around.

Turn(10 ish)
9 .
Villain bets 10 from SB and I call and so does another rather tight player. the call from the tighty means he is either on a draw or has the Q or something and puts the two of us on a draw. Basically he is does not have a strong made hand.

River(40)
K
Villain checks.
I bet 20.
Tighty folds .
Villain check raises to 80.
Me ?

BigCityBanker

Hand 1 is fine, an A should pay you off given your action.

Hand 2 id like to know what cards you have

Hand 3 I call.

LuckyLloyd

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Gholimoli

BigCityBanker wrote:

Hand 2 id like to know what cards you have

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sorry ,corrected now.

ianmc38

1. If TAG is the type of perosn who'll get taken to valuetown with TP then fine.

2. Very standard against the Chief. Your hand is well disguised and the Chief likes to punish weakness (believe it or not I've actually seen him play really well the last few times he's played cash)

3. I fold here without a specific read. You beat a bluff.

BigCityBanker

Hand 2 Chief doesnt have to have the flush to bet that. He will have taken your check on he turn and river as weakness and tried to get you off it, as he is not remiss to firing another barrell I call this against the chief everyday. It might not be the correct play but I call.

El Stuntman

Hand 2 - it's the Chief FFS! Raise the turn...

Gholimoli

El Stuntman wrote:

Hand 2 - it's the Chief FFS! Raise the turn...

Hand two against the chief if i bet the turn and he raises me i would have a very difficult decision to make.

If i check raise him then i will have to do it big and im essentially bluffing.
Also chief is not as bad as he use to be, he is somewhat decent now as i think he now has a new found value for money.

El Stuntman

Gholimoli wrote:

Also chief is not as bad as he use to be, he is somewhat decent now as i think he now has a new found value for money.

wow :eek: , actually I see Ian said the same.....

(I had so few certainties to cling to in life and now another one has been taken away from me. I feel bereft, spiritually alone)

I would have put him on 96o in the good old days

5starpool

Gholimoli wrote:

Also chief is not as bad as he use to be, he is somewhat decent now as i think he now has a new found value for money.

Must be why he isn't running as well lately.

Hand 1: If you really believe an A will pay you off then ok, or if he is the type to be overly suspicious of an overbet.
Hnad 2: I play this pretty much the same way (might not be the most ringing endorsement tbh).
Hand 3: I always find it hard to believe that people he will check raise on the river with a big hand, but I am usually amazed by the 'methods' of others too. As Ian said though, you only beat a bluff here.

LuckyLloyd

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sikes

i think you are losing too much value by open showving the turn in hand one. anyother reads to say he will stack off? we have to assume he doesnt have a strong A

Gholimoli

sikes wrote:

i think you are losing too much value by open showving the turn in hand one. anyother reads to say he will stack off? we have to assume he doesnt have a strong A

my read when he raised me was he has a very strong A.
i didnt think he had a better 3 at all as i couldnt see him calling a raise from mid pos with even an A3 .
my guess would be has AT+ ,AA .

Gholimoli

Hand one:
villain thought for ages and ages and after i tried my very best to look like i didnt want a call ,he called with AJ.
no A or J on the river and MHIS.

Hand two:
chief showed 77 for a boat and won the pot.

Hand 3:
after much thought for some stupid reason i folded and villain showed 67 for an OESD that missed.
i should have deffo called this.

Daithio

I don't like the push in hand 1. It's too strong, a half decent player would fold a strong ace to that push IMO.

Hand two I think is fine against the chief.

Hand three I flat call on the end, especially considering the game and the history with the player. Reraising is dumb and so is folding.

sikes

Gholimoli wrote:

my read when he raised me was he has a very strong A.
i didnt think he had a better 3 at all as i couldnt see him calling a raise from mid pos with even an A3 .
my guess would be has AT+ ,AA .

Sorry i meant from previous hands. Not to raise with AT+, AA is pretty passive.

If you want to stick it all in and represent a bluff i think the river is the best place for this if the turn goes check/check, looks much more like a bluff.