Some 1/2 Holdem Hands

ianmc38

I've been playing quite laggy - 30/20/8.0 over 120 hands

I've been extremely active preflop and very aggressive postflop. I've been cuaght blufifng a few times, so people have started calling me down much lighter.

Hand 1:

Effective stacks 130. Villain is awful. 40/4/1.0 over 80 or so hands. He limps UTG.

I make it 9 on the button with AKo.

Flop (21)

Ac Qc 2

He checks, I bet 16 and he shoves.

Call/Fold?

Next hand:

Villain is hilarious. No joke - his stats are 99/48/2.7

I open QQ UTG to 10. Only villain calls.

Flop (20)

4 5 8 r

He checks, I bet 16. He calls.

Turn (52)

8

Check check.

River (52)

6

He leads for 35.

Easy call/fold?


Hand 3:

From last night. UTG loose idiot (50/30/1.5) opens to 8. 2 callers. I make it 35 on the button with JTs. UTG calls leaving 100 behind.

Flop (90)

7 9 2 with one of my suit.

He checks, I shove.

Standard?

pok3rplaya

call, call, I LIKE!!! (In borat khazachstan accent)

eggie

1. Stats looks very weak, they normally only push in their chips with very strong hands, could be behind to 2 pair or trips, dont think they do this with a draw. Difficult decision, read on villain important, how he play previous made hands? draws?

2. call

3. villain dependent, rep overpair, are they capable of folding when they hit a pair on flop? do they call off on draws?

Edit: hand 2 -I actually prob call here against a retard, .

valor

i hate #3 alot squeezing players like this is not good, and neither is postflop he will look you up with any pair

HiCloy

Hand 1 - crying call, expect to be behind a lot

Hand 2 - Call despite the scary board

Hand 3 - check behind if he's very loose on flop also. I also wouldn't reraise a VPIP 50 player with JTs

phantom_lord

1. call, wouldn't feel great, but I would expect some stupid hand or a draw enough times.

2. yeah call

3. I think this is the wrong spot for doing this... he'll prob call u real light here.

pok3rplaya

valor wrote:

i hate #3 alot squeezing players like this is not good, and neither is postflop he will look you up with any pair

Yeah but a loose player like this won't have a pair lots.

FullOf..IT

fold
call
sweet

ocallagh

I've played a serious amount of 1/2 4 tabling recently on tribeca. I like how you played them all and I defo call the first 2.

Are u playing on Tribeca?

ianmc38

Yeah playing on Tribeca. Games have ben really good today but table selection has been v important as there have been a few tables of4 tabling 20/12 regulars who are decent.

padraig_f

Hand 1. Call. It's a bad sign when passive players show aggression, nevertheless I think there are too many hands you beat to fold here, especially given your table image, I could see him making this raise with several weaker aces.

Hand 2. Call. He's too aggressive a player for you to fold here after showing weakness on the turn.

Hand 3. Don't really like the reraise with JTs against such a loose player with a shortish stack. Flop push should be standard I think, you have 10 outs against any pair on the board and should win it without a showdown most of the time.

ocallagh

ianmc38 wrote:

Yeah playing on Tribeca. Games have ben really good today but table selection has been v important as there have been a few tables of4 tabling 20/12 regulars who are decent.

You wanna trade SN's to avoid each other?? I've picked out a few regulars at 1/2 that I tend to avoid. Played 4k hands since 26th Feb @ 26/13 and up $3,000. I've had AA 22 times with 100% win rate... Something's gonna give, I just hope it doesn't happen next month when I move back to 2/4.

ianmc38

Hand 1:

I called. he had A7 and MHWG.

Hand 2:

I called. He had 84o for a turned boat. Lol.

Hand 3:

He pretty much instacalled with AK and I missed.

SpermManJelly

ianmc38 wrote:

Hand 3:

From last night. UTG loose idiot (50/30/1.5) opens to 8. 2 callers. I make it 35 on the button with JTs. UTG calls leaving 100 behind.

Flop (90)

7 9 2 with one of my suit.

He checks, I shove.

Standard?

You posted what happened already so you did push.But pushin there is not standard.Your essentially blowing up in my opinion.This hold hand is blow up.

Why are you 3 betting at 1 2 blinds with that hand.I all for 3 betting do it myslef, but i dont see it being respected at 1 - 2 even more so 1 - 2 on tribeca

When u push all in on that flop what are you representing?Your certainly not representing strengh.

Sperm Man Jelly

cardshark202

Hand 3 is pretty bad, rest are fine

kpnuts

ocallagh wrote:

You wanna trade SN's to avoid each other?? I've picked out a few regulars at 1/2 that I tend to avoid. Played 4k hands since 26th Feb @ 26/13 and up $3,000. I've had AA 22 times with 100% win rate... Something's gonna give, I just hope it doesn't happen next month when I move back to 2/4.

Be funny if Ian's SN isn't one of the ones ocallagh has pencilled in to avoid..


Disclaimer: I'm just home from CopperFaceJack's via Flannery's, may not actually be all that funny!

kpnuts

Btw...

Hand 1: call, because this is exactly the type of scenario where "awful" player decides to play back at very active, plenty-of-bluff opponent, thinking only, "he can't call me without AK or AA". He has flush draw most of the time, often with the broadway gutshot too, but I am never passing to an "awful" player here with these stacks.

Hand 2: call, because I can't think of a single reason why not to.

Hand 3: agree with another poster that reraising a loosey-loosey uber-shorty with Jack-hi preflop not ideal, but as played certainly a large bet is in order on that almost ideal flop!

ianmc38

SpermManJelly wrote:

Why are you 3 betting at 1 2 blinds with that hand.I all for 3 betting do it myslef, but i dont see it being respected at 1 - 2 even more so 1 - 2 on tribeca

For the same reason i'll raise 27o after the button open raises and the SB calls. 3-bets are respected at 1/2 and .50/1 for that matter.

When I push all in on the flop, I'm making a pot size bet, exactly what I'd do with any pocket pair and AK. It just turns out in this hand he got the very worst end of my range (still had 10 outs).

ianmc38

kpnuts wrote:

Be funny if Ian's SN isn't one of the ones ocallagh has pencilled in to avoid..


Disclaimer: I'm just home from CopperFaceJack's via Flannery's, may not actually be all that funny!

Lol. I've had one boards player call me a donk in chat and another random guy said he'd pencilled me in as an idiot (neither know my SN), so I dont think I'm too fearsome an opponent!

ianmc38

cardshark202 wrote:

Hand 3 is pretty bad, rest are fine

Preflop or postflop and why?

Gholimoli

Hand 2 :
i may min raise here some times against some one with stats like that.

Hand 3:
dont like it pre-flop .
post flop is standard cuz of what you have done pre-flop and the stack sizes.
basically you will need him to fold some times pre-flop and some times post flop for this to be profitable.
he simply will not fold pre-flop(he has to see the flop to see if it can help him,after all he has two cards) and as you saw he will not fold over cards post flop either .

LuckyLloyd

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SpermManJelly

ianmc38 wrote:

For the same reason i'll raise 27o after the button open raises and the SB calls.

Thats a winning play right there.

Sperm Man Jelly

ianmc38

SpermManJelly wrote:

Thats a winning play right there.

Sperm Man Jelly

Lol. Dont believe me? Ask Bops! The 27o raise has won him muchos $$$$$$$.

pok3rplaya

Yeah cos they never put you on 72o when you flop quads and you get paid all day

SpermManJelly

ianmc38 wrote:

Lol. Dont believe me ask Bops? The 27o raise has won him muchos $$$$$$$.

WP

Sperm Man Jelly

cardshark202

3 is bad preflop, you know he's at least calling you, possibly shoving preflop. A guy like that will call way too much on the flop to make this a good play.