Poker Journal day 1
Day 1: Woke up this morning and still felt a bit ill and tired. Allowed myself another hour of sleep. Did a brief session of registering between 1pm and 3pm, and late regged the things that started a bit before on Stars. Luckily one of those wound up being the $109 turbo which I ran very hot at and won. Have a couple interesting hands from today, one of which was played out heads up at the final table.
Hand 1: Stars 22 rebuys.
My stack: 5000
Villain: 8230
Blinds 75/150. I hold 9d 9h in MP2.
Preflop: Folds to me, I raise to 400, folds to the SB, SB calls.
Flop: 5c 3c 2s
PapamooSe75: bets 300
Generally when people do these tiny leads to me I consider it like they basically checked. It mostly seems like draws trying to get to turn cheaply, or some kind of weak pair, which doesn't make a lot of sense here given texture but it's possible 66's or 77's might lead out from a strange player.
I raise to 950
planning to be fine getting it in against a shove considering how draw heavy the board is and that most large pairs often either reraise preflop, or check raise flop.
The SB makes it 1650
And now I want to vomit because he's min 3 betting me and seems to think he has the nizzles on a weird ass draw board. Will post for thoughts.
The second hand comes from heads up in the $109 turbo. The villain seemed overall pretty aggressive, capable of bluffing/light moves, and was 3 betting with moderate frequency pre flop. I'd been pretty aggressive pre, but mostly straight forward post and a bit on the passive side.
Hand 2: Stars $109 turbo.
My stack: 545107
Villain: 464893
Blinds: 8500/17000. I hold 8d5d in the BB.
Preflop: Villain completes, I check.
Flop: 4s Qd Td
I check, villain bets 17000, I raise to 42225, villain reraises to 99999, I call.
I'm pretty sure we're just barely priced in here considering implied.
Turn: 8s (Pot 238223)
I check, villain bets 115000.
Spot seemed fairly close, we have perhaps 25% equity against his range but it's 115000 to win 353223 with likely more implied than reverse implied. The diamond will almost always be good since most flush draws don't 3 ball flop then barrel turn (some could though) and the 8 is about always an out, with the 5 occasionally being safe for us as well. I called.
River: 2c
I checked, villain checked. I won the pot because villain had KsJs in a possibility I didn't bother to consider, that my hand was good against a draw that was incapable of firing the third barrel some % of the time. Can't imagine that's a particularly likely outcome though, I was surprised to win that pot.