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six four of diamonds, if not, why not 2010-05-17 - 9:07 p.m. Peachfront's Note: Don't forget to check out my Seattle to Whistler trip report starting right here. Got a little too deep to feel comfortable playing much longer on a table that had some TAGs, weak-tights, and shorties, so I called it a day a little early. It was one of those days and one of those tables where no one was going to pay me off when I hit a big hand, unless I was in trouble. I shoved all-in four times, but I was only called the time I flopped a set. Of course my opponent went on to river the straight...argh! But, most of the time, I made about the same money by flopping good hands and bad hands alike, because I wasn't getting paid off for the good hands -- which meant that they were folding to my silly bluff hands. So again I found myself playing a low variance small ball game, and I required only one re-buy to recover my money and soar ahead to a nice profit for the day. Hand #1: Weak-Tight Marine I played this hand early in the session. My opponent, as it turned out, was not actually a marine, and he wasn't necessarily a total weak-tight, but my initial impression was that he folded way too much -- and he probably only folded a little bit way too much as the game went on. But, at the start of the game, I pretty much pegged him for a folder. I also later learned that he wasn't a Marine, but my read was half-right, as he proved to be in some branch of the service. And that's it for the set-up. Since I just sat down, I've got something close to my original buy-in of $350 or maybe a little less. I'm on the button. A decent regular limps in on the lojack, the Marine raises to $20, cut-off folds, I look down and see 6 ♦ 4 ♦ on my button. Look, in a lotta lotta games, it's a clear fold. But I think I can use my position to take the pot away from these guys, if the flop hits right. So I call the $20. Blinds fold. $65 pot, and I'm the short-stack. Flop: 8 7 2 rainbow Reg checks, Marine C-bets $40, and now I take my well-hidden gut-shot draw ws the extra secret special license to kill. I raise to $120 -- 3 times the Marine's bet. Later, I would figure out that a min-raise was enough to steal all sorts of pots at this table, but, as I said, it was early days. Reg folds, but somewhat to my surprise, the Marine calls. OK, fine, more money in the pot for me when he finally gives up. Turn: Q of suit don't matter He checks to me, and I consider the $305 that's already in the pot, versus the $200-odd that I've still left behind. Hey, I like my chances. The Marine will probably fold, and if he doesn't, eff it, I have three outs that will give him a heart attack if they hit. I shove. I swear, I should have surreptitiously checked my stopwatch on my phone to see how long he pondered his next move, but it had to be a good solid five minutes before he finally folded. Sheesh! I knew you were going to fold ten minutes ago, dude. Let it go already... Hand # 2: Too Aggro with a Flopped Flush? Although I may expect a talking-to about the 6 ♦ 4 ♦ hand, I think I actually played it well, given what I knew of my opponents at the time. This hand? I'm not so sure, and I'm looking for input, because I'm not sure if I crossed the line into over-protecting my hand, especially considering that my opponents had proven, time and again, that they just weren't willing to pay me off. Villian in this particular hand was a reasonable Old White Dude, not a total nit Old White Dude, who liked to bet or check/raise at weakness, so I'd characterize him as fairly aggressive. Hell, for this table, he was a Bengal tiger. I am again on the button. Villain limps in early, limp, limp, limp, and I look down to see 8 ♥ 9 ♥ on the button. A peculiarity of this table is that people were rather loose in calling pre-flop raises, only to abandon the pot post-flop to C-bets and/or check/raises. At this time I had about $600 in front of me, and there were two folks involved who were shorter, although not the primary villain. I could try for a steal-raise right there, but I figured to get at least two callers even if I made a healthy raise, so I opted instead to make a "pot sweetener" raise. I want a bigger pot when I'm more likely to win, thanks to my position and a hand that plays well multi-way, and so that's why I decided to make it a pea-pickin' $15 to go. Of course, I get called by the blinds and my other four opponents, and it's a $105 pot. Wheeee.... Flop: A ♥ 6 ♥ 4 ♥ My six good friends all check to me, and I bet $100. The blinds fold, and now the good aggro guy decides to check/raise to $300. Crikey. There's already $500 in the pot, and I've got less than that remaining. The other good folks kindly get out of the way, and I'm not sure what to do. Should I smooth-call and then shove at a non-heart, non-board pairing turn card? Or should I go ahead and shove here while I'm still fairly confident that I'm ahead? I can't figure it out, and I can't sit here dilly-dallying forever, so I decide that it can't ever be completely terrible to go ahead and shove while you're still reasonably sure you're WAAAAAY ahead. So I do shove, and after he agonizes for a suitably lengthy period of time, he folds and I scoop the pot. I played it fast because I don't feel like being out-drawn by hands like a K ♥ Q ♦ and pocket fours but now I'm wondering if I should have taken the chance of seeing a turn card before I pushed. back - next All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2002-2017 by Elaine Radford