big session review

Just played a 2.4k hand session on Absolute. I think I played pretty well. I dodged some bullets and was able to get in some thin value bets.
Although my Acehud is working again I've decided to play a bit with my new HUD. Here is a picture of what it looks like:RTH
I changed the font and the color ranges a bit. 3B stands for 3bet% and it's an interesting new stat which is the main reason why I am using real time hud. It also uses less system resources than PAHUD though which is a huge plus.
On to my session...

poker is high variance

Villain is a fish, but not an uber donk. I think I played the hand well. I wasn't quite sure what a 6bb pf raise meant, but from my experiences today the fishier players are making these larger raises with premium hands which is a bet sizing tell.
He can't fold tptk for 200bb, but I run g00t and hit my draw.

hyper aggro donk

I didn't know much about this player, but given his line and his timing I was pretty sure he had AA or KK. I guess I was wrong...

am i on tilt?

This hand was immedeately after I lost my 1k pot, villain was very hesitant and passive in this hand, but for 100bb after I lost that huge pot it's a very easy felt in my opinion.

there is a reason why i play an absolute

It fascinates me the way these guys always call down to hope you stop betting and to see if no bad cards come. If the flush hits and I push it wouldn't suprise me to see a "so you hit your flush, qq" in the chat.

more value town

Again I had a feeling that I could be up against AA or KK here. Villain played the hand so poorly. I was contemplating value shoving the river given my read, but it seemed like too much of an overbet, plus raising might intice villain to hero call with weaker hands if he wasn't holding AA,KK.

kk 150bb

KK plays really awkward for 150bb. Again I was worried about the mr v my utg open and decided to play the hand wa/wb. I hesitated on the river, given his pf minraise and bet/bet/bet line, but my hand is too underrepped to fold here. I was surprised this villain was value betting QQ here (seems reasonable).

i should bet more on the river

I probably should have bet more on this river. For some reason I was worried about a boat (it's possible I was mixing up the preflop action given that I was 6 tabling) in retrospect I should have just made it 110ish on the river. He's never folding his hand there.

i call

I can't see myself ever really folding this hand postlfop. I probably should have made a slightly larger raise pf though to cut down on his implied and to make my postflop decision easier.

cooler

This hand is self-explicatory.

hmm

I think this hand is ok, but not great. One shouldn't be folding to minraises preflop in general (although the minraises on Absolute are not minraises, but 2x raises). This is one of the better flops for my hand. But villains flop bet is very large, he is basically comitting himself to the hand. Assuming that he hasn't always hit the flop though my equity is decent.
If I run my hand against a rough estimate of his range my play is about break even:

Board: Kd Ah Jd

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 42.681% 41.77% 00.91% 31430 683.50 { Td6d }
Hand 1: 57.319% 56.41% 00.91% 42443 683.50 { 88+, AJs+, KQs, 87s, AJo+, KQo }


170*0.42-120*0.58=+1.8

I added 87s to represent the times he will have a rdm hand. Obivously this calculation is just an estimation. I won't be getting it all in against all of that range and sometimes he might fold.
Assuming that he never folds after potting, folding to his bet is best though.
In retrospect I like folding and waiting for a better spot to get it in vs this weak player.

sometimes...

... thin value betting back fires. Villain snapped the flop and the turn so I felt inclined to try and get some value on the river unluckily he was peeling with a better a high.

deep stack poker

I felt this was a difficult hand to play well. I flop bottom set on a very ugly board and I think I can get away from this hand on the flop.
I think I have no other choice but to raise this flop, calling seems very weak. I am also not commited to the deeper stacks. My raise is almost like a raise for information.

overpair v nit

This opponent was fairly tight and I think his range is pretty polarized towards sets here. Given his small flop raise and timing I don't see how I can fold the flop.
The turn is a spot where I think a fold is reasonable given reads. The only reads I had though were from my HUD plus the river wouldn't give me any tough decisions since I think I can safely fold to any further bets or take a free showdown if checked to and see what villain is doing this with.

i figured...

...I was beat here. Nothing too special imo, but again I was able to make an easy fold based mainly on timing tells and villains line. He can't really represent a flush here since a flush would cbet. I was suspecting that I was beat on the turn, but I can hardly laydown my hand to the minraise.
If villain had cbet here he would have made more money. I think I'd always bet my quads here, I'd only make an exception against a very aggresive donk.

i make a good laydown

Interesting line here by Maverick. I've been playing with Mav since NL 100 on Absolute and we have tangeled quite a bit. I am very sure I have an edge on him as he appears to be a recreational type player, but he is difficult to extract money from since he plays fairly tight postflop. I'd say he is a small winner in these games simply because they are so good.
I am getting great odds to call the flop, but I think I am beat and I have learnt the hard way that reverse implied odds are very painful in nl (playing live deepstacked poker in Vienna).
I am happy at the way the hand turned out. I actually thought mav had a set or a straight though.

Quite a bit of hands here. But I like sharing my thoughts with the readers of my blog and it's a good change to just looking at every hand in PT by myself. I hope they were interesting and feedback is welcomed. Pls forgive any typos.

Ps.: I ended up about 300 on this session.