A great session!

Sunday, 26 October 2008

I just finished a great 1000 hand session right now. When i was about 600 hands in i was down about $60 but was still thinking of posting how good my session was. To sum it up i think i played my best poker at every point i could.

I started out pretty aggressivly early on 3betting reasonably light with position and raising flop and turn bets when i thought i could take down the pot. Straight away i got it in on the turn with AK vs QK on a TJK2 board, the river came a 9 to ship it his way but i wasn't too fazed. I think i have learnt to look at the hand, smile and say "i got it in good, that is all i can do"-i think i started to do this after reading something similar by either Krantz or Tommy Angelo.

I had another hand come up which i though i played pretty well although maybe there was a better way to play it, im not too sure. I floated a 26s4 flop with QsKs. The turn came the 8s giving me a flush draw with my overs and he fired. I put in a small raise and took it down. Obviously the downside to how i played it is if he actually had a huge hand, maybe a set or a straight that i had pretty good implied odds to crack and win a big pot by just calling. (hand discussion).

Later on in the session i picked up JJ and 4bet called against an aggressive player OOP, he had AK and hit his A on the flop, i thought to myself "at least i got it in good" ...and then i spiked the J on the river :)

Shortly after that i got it in after 4betting KK against a decent thinking player who had AKs, he commented about how he couldn't fold against my stats. My 4bet stat was 25% at that point.

Another dream hand came up after that on a different table. I was in the big blind with QQ and the action went as such; utg+1 minraises and the button isolates. The button was allin48xx (changed slightly so he can't google his name and find his tells!) who is a very tight (14/11) South Korean grinder, i have about 8000 hands on him of nl50-100 and pretty much know his game and how he plays.
I 4bet about 3x the button iso and get called twice!! The flop comes 235r and i bet about 2/3 pot mostly hopeing the guy who minraised/cold called a 4bet shoves A high to win the $100 thats now in the pot, he folds.
allin48xx calls which i love as i know he's calling me to the river now with any overpair, he folds AQ on this flop for sure and shoves in preflop with AK, AA, KK 99% of the time. Turn is a good card pairing the board and we get it all in, he mucks TT.

One of the last hands of the session i lost but thought i played it ok, the guy was super nitty so i didn't want to stack off on the flop (maybe i coulda folded him out :P) but i had TPTK vs his AA and decided to valuebet the river after he checked back the turn. He thought for a short while and called, im not sure if he was nitty enough to think about folding but i actually like him just calling, i was just suprised to see he had me crushed!!


Bankroll: $3900

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