Hi guys, Alex here.
I played a 400 hand session in 2nl zoom (200 ukrainian botring 6max) tonight. I had some interesting spots that were a little unusual in that I don't know a solid strategy for them but here are some of those(imo) hands.
Me clicking buttons:
- PokerStars Zoom Hand #156720387808: Hold'em No Limit ($0.01/$0.02) - 2016/08/01 8:47:39 ET
- Table 'Halley' 6-max Seat #1 is the button
- Seat 1: pbirdyellow ($2.47 in chips)
- Seat 2: KolaTHT ($2.27 in chips)
- Seat 3: tina86722 ($2.27 in chips)
- Seat 4: Maybe I Won? ($3.05 in chips)
- Seat 5: goingpaper ($2.21 in chips)
- Seat 6: MaHiNaToRs ($3.85 in chips)
- KolaTHT: posts small blind $0.01
- tina86722: posts big blind $0.02
- *** HOLE CARDS ***
- Dealt to goingpaper [As Td]
- Maybe I Won?: folds
- goingpaper: raises $0.04 to $0.06 (MP)
- MaHiNaToRs: folds
- pbirdyellow: folds
- KolaTHT: raises $0.14 to $0.20 (SB)
- tina86722: folds
- goingpaper: raises $0.22 to $0.42
- KolaTHT: calls $0.22
- *** FLOP *** [7d 7h 3h]
- KolaTHT: checks
- goingpaper: bets $0.34
- KolaTHT: calls $0.34
- *** TURN *** [7d 7h 3h] [9c]
- KolaTHT: checks
- goingpaper: bets $1.45 and is all-in
- KolaTHT: folds
- Uncalled bet ($1.45) returned to goingpaper
- goingpaper collected $1.49 from pot
- goingpaper: doesn't show hand
- *** SUMMARY ***
- Total pot $1.54 | Rake $0.05
- Board [7d 7h 3h 9c]
- Seat 1: pbirdyellow (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
- Seat 2: KolaTHT (small blind) folded on the Turn
- Seat 3: tina86722 (big blind) folded before Flop
- Seat 4: Maybe I Won? folded before Flop (didn't bet)
- Seat 5: goingpaper collected ($1.49)
- Seat 6: MaHiNaToRs folded before Flop (didn't bet)
I guess this hand is technically played in a gto way if I'm only jamming the turn with a bluff 33% of the time. I don't think im going to 4bet AK pre in this spot so I feel like its hard to find enough bluffs here. Also I think I only turn up with AA+KK here so I can only have 6 bluff combos. I don't know someone teach me.
small blind v big blind against shitty reg:
- PokerStars Zoom Hand #156720330381: Hold'em No Limit ($0.01/$0.02) - 2016/08/01 8:45:42 ET
- Table 'Halley' 6-max Seat #1 is the button
- Seat 1: LRNDMS ($2.06 in chips)
- Seat 2: Chuparec ($2.66 in chips)
- Seat 3: goingpaper ($3 in chips)
- Seat 4: 86fOrFuN ($5.46 in chips)
- Seat 5: Mr KoBud ($2 in chips)
- Seat 6: DarebacK1 ($2.33 in chips)
- Chuparec: posts small blind $0.01
- goingpaper: posts big blind $0.02
- *** HOLE CARDS ***
- Dealt to goingpaper [4d 5d]
- 86fOrFuN: folds
- Mr KoBud: folds
- DarebacK1: folds
- LRNDMS: folds
- Chuparec: raises $0.04 to $0.06 (SB)
- goingpaper: raises $0.12 to $0.18 (BB)
- Chuparec: calls $0.12
- *** FLOP *** [2d Ad 4c]
- Chuparec: checks
- goingpaper: checks
- *** TURN *** [2d Ad 4c] [6d]
- Chuparec: checks
- goingpaper: bets $0.12
- Chuparec: calls $0.12
- *** RIVER *** [2d Ad 4c 6d] [Kc]
- Chuparec: checks
- goingpaper: bets $0.48
- Chuparec: folds
- Uncalled bet ($0.48) returned to goingpaper
- goingpaper collected $0.58 from pot
- goingpaper: doesn't show hand
- *** SUMMARY ***
- Total pot $0.60 | Rake $0.02
- Board [2d Ad 4c 6d Kc]
- Seat 1: LRNDMS (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
- Seat 2: Chuparec (small blind) folded on the River
- Seat 3: goingpaper (big blind) collected ($0.58)
- Seat 4: 86fOrFuN folded before Flop (didn't bet)
- Seat 5: Mr KoBud folded before Flop (didn't bet)
- Seat 6: DarebacK1 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
I decided to 3bet pre here because I felt like it..
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Really though 45s is kind of a weak hand so 3betting some percentage of the time is going to lead to some different +ev spots postflop. Also most people at this stake fold to 3bets too much when they're oop. On the flop we hit a board with a huge range advantage, you could make an argument for betting here and I think both betting or checking here is fine. I leaned towards checking in the moment because of the idea that with this kind of hand if you bet here you kind of turn your hand into a bluff whereas if you check you retain the showdown value of your hand and I like to play ranges in ways that keep as much showdown value as possible. On the turn the board still really favours my range when he checks to me. Although I checked back, my range should still contain some Ax, Kdx Qdx so I bet small because it's the same sizing I'd be using for some of those hands. On the river the villains range is kind of capped but my range is uncapped. As my hand doesn't really block the villains calling range( hands that I beat) I decide to bet quite large. I think the bottom of my value range here is AQ (if the hand exists in it at all) otherwise I have a lot of flushes and maybe KK with a diamond.
As I said in my last post, my plan is still to get into the 5nl games I just wanted to play some 2nl tonight.
As always I appreciate any feedback