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PanoRaMa United States. Feb 25 2008 01:08. Posts 1655

Been playing some pretty good poker lately, which is good considering I really need to make big strides this week if I want to end February with a solid earning. Currently at 11.1k over 36k hands right now which is a bit unfortunate but beggars can't be choosers (don't know if this even applies in this context but whatever).

Here are some pretty good calls I've made recently.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/392496 - KQ hi on A hi board
Kinda standard cbet flop, realize I'm ahead of draws on turn cbet, then bluff catch riv hand.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/392497 - JJ on K hi board 3 streets oop
Flop I mix it up between cbetting and check calling. Turn he is repping a decent amount of hands that beat me, but by river he essentially has to have KQ or a set here, and I've shown immense weakness up til this point.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/392500 - KK on A hi board facing a river c/rai
A fun hand here, against an aggressive, good villain and among the few I actually respect at my stakes. Flop I'm thinking he reasons I'm only betting here with air and the very top of my range (and checking back made pairs and A high), so he makes a standard peel. Turn is a supposed scare card but I know he's smart enough to know I know it's a scare card, so I bet for value planning to go 3 streets. His river c/r is a bit scary at first but reasoning through the hand I don't think he ever has a 4 in his hand here (unless 44 i guess lol), a slowplayed 77 is possible but I think he might've made a move by then. I also don't think he's capable of doing this with just a bare ace either. In the end, it was a really thin, ballsy bluff by him and probably made to fold me off a queen or an ace if he thinks I'm that weak tight.

Here are some good calls I make that I actually get punished for:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/391788 - 3b pot TT oop on A hi 3 flush board
Villain is aggro and I have a pretty aggro image as well. I think I just lost a big pot to something stupid prior to this so he might've also had the idea that I was slightly tilted (which is wrong because I'm zen as fuck and never tilt). His raise/call range here is pretty wide, and he knows that I am probably betting this flop with my entire range (lol I probably am). Because of this, I think he's capable of calling with a pocket pair type hand or just air intending to float, so I snap it off on the turn and get owned. He had decent equity though, but he was probably shoving a non diamond turn as well =/

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/391782 - 3b pot QQ on K hi flop facing a shove
Villain is some crazy donk who claims to be a poker pro and is a table coach and berates everyone. He's been 3betting me a little bit lately, and usually has a tendency to bluff (later developed some sick bet sizing tells on him). Knowing this, I choose not to 4bet my queens and just let him donk it off. Not that hard of a call on the flop since I mean he's just retarded and overaggro, dumb result though.

Well that's it. Hopefully I'll put up some more "essays" later since that seems like the things people like the most (browse through previous entries if you're interested).

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Baalim Mexico. Feb 25 2008 01:41. Posts 34305

wow some of those are sick calls

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Last edit: 25/02/2008 01:41

HachiRoku United States. Feb 25 2008 01:42. Posts 315

high-level thinking looks a lot like microstake one-level thinking. I'm just so glad you left a trail for me to follow through your HH or I'd be so lost

great post as always PanoRaMa

dronebabo United States. Feb 25 2008 05:38. Posts 736

woo

collegesucks United States. Feb 25 2008 11:15. Posts 5780

media bias!! show us the BAD calls you've made

vvn calls though