today was a good day

Eclipse last night was awesome, then roll out of bed around one, eat some lebanese food, and go play poker for a few hours. Up 2.5 bi, some interesting hands.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1420994

This is actually from a session last week that I never got around to blogging, and I'm still kinda iffy about it. I don't really like threebetting flop because it basically lets him shove his AJ+ and combo draws and fold everything else. Turn sucks but means he doesn't have the NFD meaning if he did just flush me my jack is an out unless he has QTss and if he had just an ace on the flop I still have infinite outs. Calling turn means I have to call the river especially when I hit the flush. Looks spewy but he did http://www.pokerhand.org/?1421002 that in a previous session. I ultimately think it's okay.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1420865

This is normally just 5b shove, but it was like the fifth hand and shoving here is basically QQ+ or maybe AK, i.e. folds out a lot of what I have crushed. I plan to call and crai any nonace flop. Ace flops. Damn.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1420873

There was some cackling after this one.

I forgot to save the hands to notepad so now I'm just pulling them out of PT, and they're not in chronological order. The relevant hands I'll post in order, though.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1420886

I think I'm usually ahead on this river so I'm okay with raising, but irc folk pointed out minraising is probably better than shoving because K9/KJ don't beat much and will probably just fold to a shove.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1420895

Flop is actually mostly just a float; I planned to fold if he led the turn. He didn't, but the board was getting very drawy and I was pretty sure he'd have to lead an ace on it, so I just shoved. He snap called and I was like "oops" then "wtf?"

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1420899

Not a big fan of raising flop because he folds his AK or whatever. I thought about bombing the turn, but figured if he has a king he's betting the river anyway and so there's not a lot of point. I guess he had KQ or maybe a pocket pair like 99 so I might've missed some value but I think against his range calling flop is best and calling turn vs raising is close.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1420910

He actually misplayed every street.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1420919

This call is a little questionable actually but he was the type who I thought would flat with QQ+ to go for the trap so he probably had something along the lines of AK or like 77-JJ.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1420947

His line is either brilliant or stupid. I called the turn because his donk there looks like a bluff and I figured I'd take it away from him on the river. Then he looked me up with ace high and I about fell out of my chair in shock. It's actually really sick because I basically have a jack or air there most of the time because sixes and fours aren't in my preflop range. Villain seems to be on the clever side...

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1420951

Which means that here I gave him a big middle finger. He wouldn't play a flush so passively; if he was just going to call the flop and turn he almost has to lead the river to get implied odds because I check behind most nonqueen hands. When he goes for the c/r his hand is almost certainly a bluff.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1420960

Urgh, I tanked and folded; either I have three outs or he has half the deck. He got a note, though.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1420967

I'd been missing just about every single flop in reraised pots and had broken out the double barrel in the last one so this was pretty standard, but look at what he had.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1420972

Bleh, nice hand. River is unpleasant but I think I have to call especially considering the above two hands.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1420975

On the flop he either has a draw or a jack, and looking at the board I'm basically just gonna stack off to sets or AJ, so let's max vs everything else. There's definitely an argument for making it more like $32 on the turn but I'd rather make a smaller turn bet to get him more committed on the river if he has a weaker jack.