Monday, September 22, 2008

weekend update

Haven't really had much to talk about recently. Played Wednesday and Thursday dropping about 1 1/2 buy-ins. The weekend's sessions went fairly well and I actually ended up gaining ground instead of dropping 3-4 buy-ins like I normally do. I was hitting a fair amount of hands and getting paid off. I also feel like I did a better job of keeping pots smaller with my marginal holdings and a better job of getting away from TPGK, TPTK which are hands I've been way overplaying recently.
In honor of my friend, Jensen, here is a hand that really set this guy on my table off. He had me all the way, but the poker gods were kind.

I read this hand right and decided to gamble, but wasn't rewarded. It's the luck of the draw, right?



This last hand, I'm wondering if I could have extracted more value after flopping the boat. I was really hoping my opponent was drawing to the flush which would have almost guaranteed a stack off. Do you think I could have extracted more value without the guy folding?





3 comments:

JT said...

Woohoo. Nice suckout. Good job this weekend. I think I'll start playing again soon :). Just been un-motivated.

Tenor1 said...

I thought you might like that. the guy had me all the way, too. He went off in chat and I typed "lol"

James P McAteer said...

payback! You got all his money but I think I prefer a preflop raise instead of calling - although OK to call occasionaly I suppose. Not sure why you shoved though - seems a bit marginal to me?

If he smooth called preflop you and with that top pair flop you could have been in bother. Unless he was a habitual 3-better a preflop raise might have told you more about his hand. Obviously the river was perfect... nice.