By lakong on November 30th, 2006 (more posts by author)

I've continued to receive some bad beats, but I've also began to suck-out just as much -- a few QQ and KK beating AA, my two pair getting all in on the turn against a made flush and hitting a full house, etc., etc. Of course i also have had my share of bad beats, but it all evens out in the end. [i]That's poker[/i] as they say.

Here are two hands I would like to share:

Hand 1:

Full Tilt Poker
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $1/$2
6 players
Converter

Stack sizes:
Hero: $266.30
UTG+1: $186.75
CO: $329.55
Button: $340.40
SB: $329.85
BB: $207.25

Pre-flop: ([i]6 players[/i]) Hero is UTG with A:spade: J:heart:
[color:#cc0000]Hero raises to $7[/color], UTG+1 calls $7 [color:aaaaaa](pot was $10)[/color], CO calls $7 [color:aaaaaa](pot was $17)[/color], Button folds, SB calls $6 [color:aaaaaa](pot was $24)[/color], BB folds.

Flop: A:club: J:spade: 4:diamond: ([i]$30, 4 players[/i])
SB checks, [color:#cc0000]Hero bets $20[/color], UTG+1 folds, CO calls $20 [color:aaaaaa](pot was $50)[/color], SB folds.

Turn: J:diamond: ([i]$70, 2 players[/i])
[color:#cc0000]Hero bets $44[/color], [color:#cc0000]CO raises to $104[/color], Hero calls $60 [color:aaaaaa](pot was $218)[/color].

River: 5:spade: ([i]$278, 2 players[/i])
Hero checks, [color:#cc0000]CO bets $150[/color], [color:#cc0000]Hero calls all-in $135.3[/color].
Uncalled bets: $14.7 returned to CO.

Results:
Final pot: $548.6
[color:#ffffff]Hero showed As Jh[/color]
[color:#ffffff]CO showed 4s 6s[/color]


In the above hand I had a very aggressive rep at this table having been raising lots of hands. I figured the raise on the turn meant that the opponent thought I was weak. The pot was fairly large and I was hoping he had nothing and felt that he needed to bluff me off of a medium strength hand on the river. It turned out that I was correct.

Hand 2:

Full Tilt Poker
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $1/$2
6 players
Converter

Stack sizes:
UTG: $199.05
Hero: $294.90
CO: $170.25
Button: $363.75
SB: $381
BB: $200.65

Pre-flop: ([i]6 players[/i]) Hero is UTG+1 with 6:diamond: 6:heart:
[color:#cc0000]UTG raises to $6[/color], Hero calls $6 [color:aaaaaa](pot was $9)[/color], CO calls $6 [color:aaaaaa](pot was $15)[/color], [i]3 folds[/i].

Flop: Q:club: Q:heart: 4:club: ([i]$21, 3 players[/i])
UTG checks, [color:#cc0000]Hero bets $14[/color], CO calls $14 [color:aaaaaa](pot was $35)[/color], UTG folds.

Turn: 5:heart: ([i]$49, 2 players[/i])
[color:#cc0000]Hero bets $32[/color], CO calls $32 [color:aaaaaa](pot was $81)[/color].

River: K:diamond: ([i]$113, 2 players[/i])
Hero checks, [color:#cc0000]CO bets $90[/color], Hero calls $90 [color:aaaaaa](pot was $203)[/color].

Results:
Final pot: $293
[color:#ffffff]Hero showed 6d 6h[/color]
[color:#ffffff]CO showed Td Ac[/color]


This was an interesting hand. I was pretty sure I was ahead leading up to the river. I felt that if I bet the river I could not stand a re-raise if the guy had a King so I checked. I expected him to bet, but not quite that big. At first I wasn't going to call, but it was a really large bet and if he wanted a call I don't think he would have bet that much. One other thing influenced my call which was pretty funny. At the exact same time this hand went down I had QQ on a second table and just got all in against AA on a rag flop. I rivered a Q and won just before my time to act was up in this hand. I decided that I was playing with someone else's money so it made the call much easier.