5/10 AcQd

I think this was the first time I played w/ kerpowski. I don't know much about his game besides I thought I've heard of him being a pretty solid player on like 10/20 or 25/50. My impression of him this session was that he was playing pretty tight like 18/13 and was pretty aggro and using his image well. Just seemed like a smart, thinking TAG type of player capable of just about anything but I don't know how true that assumption actually is. He wasn't really c-betting much at all and seemed like he tries to get a lot of hands to showdown or mix up his play on the flop+turn w/ different lines.

I hadn't really gotten involved w/ him much. Was playing like 22/17. Don't really remember what my image was but I think I was just sorta going along grinding some edges not showing down anything interesting.

Submitted by : RiKD

POKERSTARS GAME #16878282709: HOLD'EM NO LIMIT ($5/$10) - 2008/04/20 - 21:04:24 (ET)
Table 'Raphaela III' 6-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: kerpowski ($958 in chips)
Seat 2: notyetfamous ($256.75 in chips)
Seat 3: TheCleaner11 ($1530.25 in chips)
Seat 4: Hero ($1087 in chips)
Seat 5: hammergod41 ($1257 in chips)
Seat 6: AndrewBoccia ($2634 in chips)
TheCleaner11: posts small blind $5
Hero : posts big blind $10

Holecards
Dealt to Hero
hammergod41: folds
AndrewBoccia: folds
kerpowski: raises $15 to $25
notyetfamous: folds
TheCleaner11: folds
hammergod41 said, "yea but teh good things about epass was you could withdraw cash with theyre atm card"
Hero : calls $15

Flop (Pot : $55.00)

   
Hero : checks
hammergod41 said, "no record"
kerpowski: checks

Turn (Pot : $55.00)

   
Hero : bets $35
kerpowski said, "ah, so the real question is "how can I best commit tax fraud?""
kerpowski: calls $35

River (Pot : $125.00)

   
kerpowski said, "not what is best to use to cashout"
hammergod41 said, "you use the wire kerpowski?"
Hero : bets $115
hammergod41 said, "lol"
kerpowski: raises $485 to $600
hammergod41 said, "welll...kindas yea"
kerpowski said, "yeah, I use the wire transfer"
Hero : ????

also, if the chat has any influence on your decision?

ez fold

hard fold but I think you need to fold he probably has the ace, he could have hit a set of 4 or 2 and waiting for the diamond to fall to get much stronger value

snapfold

seems like KK more than Ad or anythign else

On May 09 2008 09:12 nolan wrote: snapfold

yup

maybe its just me, but a good villain makes this alot closer than u guys are saying? I mean in the villains eyes your range can be super wide, making this a great spot to bluff especially considering his image.

A big part of the question is obviously what hands he calls your turn bet with. But if hes not cbetting many flops then his turn calling range is probably decently wide.

so villain here is sick enough to sniff out players who bet/fold too much on rivers?

this really looks like he's raising for value here and it's doubtful he's value raising thin vs someone he doesn't have much history with.

A lil more interesting with the Ad imo

Do you guys fold the Ad? Curious...

am I the only one who would check call this river more than anything?

On May 08 2008 23:21 NMcNasty wrote: ez fold

On May 09 2008 10:38 Fraser wrote: maybe its just me, but a good villain makes this alot closer than u guys are saying? I mean in the villains eyes your range can be super wide, making this a great spot to bluff especially considering his image.

thing is he doesn't have a bluffing range very often, when he checks flop and calls turn a good player is almost never going to have something like unpaired black cards, he'll almost always have at least a medium diamond or middle pair where his decision is just call or fold on the river. If he was a worse player the decision is more difficult because he's calling turn with trash more often, and he'll be more likely to make some non-thinking aggressive river move.

On May 09 2008 12:53 JonnyCosMo wrote: Do you guys fold the Ad? Curious...

thing is the Ad isn't really that much better because I think its pretty rare he's raising this large with just the Kd for value. So basically you're still just bluff catching, but with the Ad out of his range I don't know what the hell he could be taking this line with and I would probably make a very curious call.

Ok. If you're RIKD then i guess you can value bet diamonds pretty thin then here.. like 10d+

He's game matches that of 22 very well guys...
Whatever, you ought not to bet 2.5x PF, go 3.5x or at least 3x if you actually wanna steal the blinds in the toughest-countered way.

And, you do wanna focus your game on stealing the blinds, and stealing money from other players who steals the blinds or just spews. That is one reason that will not go away when moving up in stakes.

If you bet, bet big, if you get fought too bad, evaluate textures @ flop better, if you have to check-surrend too much and cant fight by adjusting in some check-raises with OK hands, then tight up in that position etc...

Your game will vs good opponents find need to be quite tight nomatter what size you bet preflop, and the opponents will find it easier to fight back at you profitably when you bet that small, because they will risk only like 100$ to reraise you, and when they do you will have a shitty time evaluating their ranges that might very well be adjusted vs you alone, or not, etc etc... You will be in a land of shit in the end i figure.

blaha blaha, gg no re

On May 09 2008 17:27 consideratio wrote: He's game matches that of 22 very well guys... Whatever, you ought not to bet 2.5x PF, go 3.5x or at least 3x if you actually wanna steal the blinds in the toughest-countered way. And, you do wanna focus your game on stealing the blinds, and stealing money from other players who steals the blinds or just spews. That is one reason that will not go away when moving up in stakes. If you bet, bet big, if you get fought too bad, evaluate textures @ flop better, if you have to check-surrend too much and cant fight by adjusting in some check-raises with OK hands, then tight up in that position etc... Your game will vs good opponents find need to be quite tight nomatter what size you bet preflop, and the opponents will find it easier to fight back at you profitably when you bet that small, because they will risk only like 100$ to reraise you, and when they do you will have a shitty time evaluating their ranges that might very well be adjusted vs you alone, or not, etc etc... You will be in a land of shit in the end i figure. blaha blaha, gg no re

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