long one

Two tabled for an hour and a half or so. Breakeven session, but I was fairly happy with most of it. I was still able to keep track of my opponents and tendencies, and the mistakes I made weren't because I was pressed for time or anything. The most interesting hands are towards the bottom.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1403640

Pretty standard.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1403645

Not a whole lot of point to raising anywhere in the hand; autofelting trips no kicker is a bad habit to get into. If he has a worse ace and I raise, he's gonna have some serious thinking to do and may very well fold instead of continuing to bet, while if he has a better ace I just get wrecked. I could minraise/fold the river, now that I think about it, but even that feels sketchy.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1403669

This sort of sucks, but if he has a pair and a six folding and calling are both pretty miserable. If he has two pair that's also pretty miserable but in general folding is just so bleh with how draw heavy that board is. Plus the guy is short.

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I usually raise the flop here but if he's bluffing I want him to be able to rep spades on a turn or something like that. If he's drawing he only has six outs not eight (if I get threeflushed over threeflushed with a queen, frowns.) so I'm okay with letting him draw. River is close but might be a fold; he's probably not three barreling air and he's probably not value betting a worse nine. Catching running tens seemed so unlikely, though, and there were so many missed draws I decided to pay off the one that hit. I think I should probably just raise flop and have done with it but that might be results oriented.

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I was almost positive he had a nine on the turn, but if he has a nine we're getting it in anyway, so I wanted to max value from kings and bluffs by calling and letting him lead river.

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I had a read that he checkraised draws. It was wrong or he mixes it up :/

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Neat.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1403708

Heh, I thought he had hearts but couldn't exactly induce a bluff and then fold getting 3:1.

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Normally I would raise the flop, but it's so dry that I'd rather let him second barrel. Turn sucks, so raising isn't great anymore, then when he overshoves river it's T_T and fold. His line looks like two pair or a set.

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Pretty standard, A7s is a little light to call with but not that bad. He hit and ran me after this hand.

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Um, right.

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Better lucky than good. Turn is sort of spewy compared to check behind and call river to snap off floats or whatever, though. My hand was essentially a bluff except against a flush draw which I think I get more value from by calling river.

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I guess he just religiously fourbets pocket pairs in the hopes that the other guy has AK?

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1403733

Going for the river checkraise from the ace if he has it.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1403737

Pretty standard.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1403739

Also kinda standard, except for not raising the flop. I didn't want him to just threebet me off the hand and planned to take it away on the turn, then he bets again except I'm open-ended and the ace might be good.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1403747

I dunno why I'm not raising donks as often this session, especially in this hand where it's almost certainly the right line. Anyway, raise flop, I like turn and river. Who donks ace high?

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This looks weird but after the river I was pretty sure he didn't have a king and so my hand was best on the turn and I wanted to bet it for value. Nice river. He tanked forevvvvvvvvver though, so my thought process may need re-evaluating.

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Kinda nitty but either the other guy has a million outs or I'm crushed, and that bet is actually looking like an overpair or two pair, not a draw.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1403766

Standard.

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Hm, that's just all sorts of fun. Shoving the flop is gross because he won't call anything worse except AJ. I might want to make it like $15 on the turn because it sets up a river shove, but I dunno how good my hand even is on the river, which actually means I should probably question the turn bet, too. His flop line looks like a club draw, though; top pair would probably lead and threebet. He's not calling a river bet with busted clubs unless he has the Kc and even then it's a pretty spewy call so I play it safe.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1403779

Normally I lean towards folding the river, but when he checks the flop behind and all the draws miss his line looks very bluffy. I didn't really take gutshots into account of "draws."

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I think he would've led a ten on the river to get value from ace high, so I bet here to get value from his ace high. Apparently he's not that aggro; I would expect him to lead 99 for the same reasons as leading a ten.

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River is the only questionable part of the hand. I considered c/c, but didn't want him checking a nine behind. In hindsight, though, he's probably not calling a nine three times. c/f is something I didn't consider at the time ("I has top pair") but might not be that bad because he's not floating the flop and turn and I can't really think of any worse hands he could have. I actually think c/f is best or c/c a small bet.

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Yeah, not a lot I could do here. Flop raise is small because I don't want to blow him off his ace, which is why I froze up and called the flop instead of pushing.