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I'm home again. Played a bit the last few nights. No really big hands, but I ended up about $160, so I was pleased.

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I've been experimenting with open limping from the cutoff or button. I pick up a lot of pots that get checked around, and I have position, etc. I'm not sure quite where to draw the line, but the button was pretty tight and I expected the limp to purchase the button. Anyway, I have a pair + OESD on the flop, so I bump it. I hit the straight on the turn and fire. The only interesting part is the river; I was really hesitant to bet because I wasn't sure what I was beating. I really doubt he has a heart draw because of near PSBs on both streets, and he was the BB; could have 96. Could have a naked six, though, or two pair. I'm actually not sure if betting here is correct, but I've been consciously trying to make thin value bets and there you go.

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I'm still trying to work out profitable set lines. b/3b doesn't quite work when you're deep. Here it was fine; I was trying to represent a draw or bluff and bam. When he minraises that might be a draw, and I'm not keen on giving them decent odds. In this case, overs could kill my action, too. I guess the preflop raiser b/3b is a draw about never, though, so I'm not sure if this was the best line. I mean, he might be on a draw, in which case pushing might be right just to smash his implied odds, but I don't think this extracts max value from TPTK-esque hands.

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Here I turn a set and again miss some value. At the time I was like "yessssss he has trips and I'm going to maul him" but I didn't realize that this could also be a flush draw that is drawing totally dead and yet will still pay me off.

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Come on, who doesn't get paid off with top set in a raised pot? I was so totally going to checkraise him and he was too rude to comply. I think he had AK or maybe jacks, because I can't see anything else.

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:(. OOP is awwwwwful. I'm pretty sure he doesn't have a pocket pair except maybe aces (or jacks if he is a total lucksack) because the threebet and ace should put the fear of God into QQ-KK. I think he has AK/AA here a lot. He claimed to have AQ, which also makes sense and shows how valueable the button is. Still, I'm pretty sure the best case scenario there is a split pot.

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I need to stop betting the turn after my flop raises get called. To me, it makes no sense; I'm totally selling a monster but they can't seem to fold. Dude might have the ten there, or jacks (his raises were always big, but I think TT-JJ are raised heaviest preflop because people hate playing them postflop) but bottom two? How is that not KJ/KQ/T9? Shrug. I guess I'll just do it with good hands and get paid off.