This blog isn't actually a blog, I need a site to put my non-standard hands on, for the purpose of discussing them with my friends Thus I won't report ups and downs and stories, but if you have ideas or comments for particular hands, feel free to comment.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3086107
Villain unknown, seems active. There are a couple of pair+gutshot draws but I feel he might overplay QT/QJ and fold most of his weak pairs+draws+underpairs and all of his air. This is an ugly spot to raise/call a 3bet without history so i elect to call.
Turn is ugly because it gives him twopair often, as well as additional outs with QT. I thought about folding in that spot hoping he is passive, but thought that it is a shitty spot for me to fold if he is doublebarreling TT or air, since it is a pretty scary card and my hand could not play for stacks on that flop. The odds were too good so i elected to peel in case he (semi)bluffs and will give up on the river if he is bluffing and i have an easy checkbehind.
River pairs the 2ndpair, and a reasonable player would turn JT into a bluffcatcher here, since AQ is the absolute bottom of my calling range. But he doesn't think too much and bets quite quickly again. The 9 is good in case he 5 outered me on the turn and polarizes his range when betting towards Q9,98 maybe JT and lots of busted/ hands without showdownvalue against my range i called flop+turn with.
I think my rivercall is thin given no history, but also not knowing anything about him and not having raised the flop as played laying down basically Toptwo would be a mistake and the odds were ok with 2.6:1.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3086120
An awkward hand on an active tables vs unknowns mostly. At least no regulars are in the hand, since i know most of them. The standard play would be to bet the flop, and see how action progresses. Otherwise TP2K value in 4way pots are skewed even on a paired very dry flop. If behind villain is drawing to 2-3 outs, if Villain is ahead I'm way behind with 2 outs. So i elected to check and sie if it goes bet+raise, I'd have to muck my TP because it's no good, if nobody bet's i still get two good streets of value because the pot is bloated anyway being 4way. Now villain that flatcalled my UTG raise preflop leads almost pot and 2 behind him fold, I call seeing no value in raising.
The turn makes me sick, because a standard flatcalling/leading flop range would be AK,AQ,AJ,ATs and few suited aces if he has an A, and since he bet the flop with two people behind him that's exactly what I thought he had. I was pretty sure he'd bet again with a 9 and maybe trap AJ and also probably bet AK for 2 streets of value from a smaller A. He doesn't give it any thought and checks behind quickly. At this point I'm a bit confused and the River is practically a blank. If he led the flop with a sick backdoorflushdraw of some kind with 3% equity he'd of course valuebet, if he had some kind of suited Ace he'd probably make a small valuebet in position in case i elected to c/c the flop with KK QQ.
Now I time down while thinking about his range and decided to let him bet, because he might bluffshove weak Aces on me because I underrepresented my hand while making it obvious, that I wanted to see a cheap showdown. Also from small Aces which I thought would be the minority of his range I probably won't get value if he his thinking and I didn't have information of him being fish.
When he bet 15$ into 15$ my first thought was beat, and my second thought was nuts or nothing weighing more to nothing because of how I played my hand he wouldn't expect me to call off a big bet on the river if I had a showdownvalue but not great enough hand. Easy call I guess.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3086134
Villain is a huge fish, limpcalls 80% of his range and PFR 10-12, plays passively. I give up on the turn, he checks again. I figure he'd at least bet 2nd pair but c/c all his low PP. I give myself 3:1 odds on him folding Q9,KQ,89 splits and hopefully A highs by betting 5 into 10.