Poker Journal Day 23
Day 23, March 17th: I got pleny of work done on the book. I revised the onlie vs live section to sound less partial to online players and got more work done on the mid stages section, though I am currently awaiting further input rom ElkY in order to shore it up further.
I realized that I have forgotten to keep putting the entries on Pokersavvyplus lately so I’m going back and adding them all today. I also never went over the responses I got on the hands I posted on Day 14, so I’ll go over them now.
On the first hand where I called down with AJ on a 8 9 9 8 A board pretty much every response agreed that my line was standard, particularly since there are plenty of missed draws and counterfeited hands in his range.
Looking back at the second hand, which had me holding 88 in the 100 rebuy, I realize that the suits did not copy/paste correctly into the blog entry. In the actual hand I held the 8h and the flop came T high with three hearts. I check called and the turn was a low heart, prompting me to check/call again. I then check/folded a brick river on the shove. I only got one response on the hand so I’ve gone back and given it a quick bump to see if I can get more input.
On the third hand where I flopped two pair with K5 out of the SB in a UB tournament opinions were highly mixed, but most seemed to think that given odds and that people on UB do really weird and spazzy stuff I should at least call the turn. This was an interesting one as a number of guys I respect had fairly polarized responses, but most seemed okay with the idea of at least calling.
On the fourth hand where I 3 bet J7dd in the Tilt 100/r/a most agreed that it was worth having a move like this in my arsenal pre flop so long as I didn’t start going nuts with it. Most liked the line I took post flop, though some said they would bet all three streets as a bluff. I feel like the line I took is better since that early in the tournament people will almost never fold any pair on the turn and rarely turn many worse pairs into bluffs so getting to showdown is not so hard.