happy b'day!

Had my first session with 12er Nick last night. The tables weren't as aggro as normal (better table selection?), but as usual getting action from strong hands was proving difficult against these bastards. A couple of interesting situations came up, but next time I'll try to sit with some of the more aggro players cos I think I'll learn more from those situations.

No previous with SB, though he'd been very loose with his 3bets from the blinds.
Normally I'd have waited for a stronger hand...

Absolute Life Poker 1.00/2.00, hand converted by the at

saw flop | saw showdown

Button ($128.30)
SB SB ($258.00)
BB ($60.00)
UTG ($203.95)
UTG+1 Hero ($239.40)
CO ($123.40)

Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with 7 7
1 fold, Hero raises to 7.00, 2 folds, SB raises to 22.00, 1 fold, Hero calls 16.00.

Flop (48.00) 2 3 T
SB bets 35.00, Hero calls 35.00.

Turn (118.00) T
SB checks, Hero bets 72.00, 1 fold

Hero shows 7 7

Hero wins 190.00 with Two pair, Ten's and Seven's with a Three for a kicker



This was tricky. Nick was imploring me not to 4bet, but like a hero obv I ignored him and ploughed on regardless. OTB is 22/19/4 and light 3bets from all over the show like there's no tomorrow.


Absolute Life Poker 1.00/2.00, hand converted by the at

saw flop | saw showdown

Button Button ($201.00)
SB ($364.00)
BB ($164.15)
UTG ($74.50)
UTG+1 Hero ($197.00)
CO ($100.75)

Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with Q Q
1 fold, Hero raises to 7.00, 1 fold, Button raises to 27.00, 2 folds, Hero raises to 65.00, Button calls 45.00.

Flop (147.00) K 8 9
Hero checks, Button checks.

Turn (147.00) T
Hero checks, Button bets 68.00, 1 fold

When he calls the 4bet we're toast.

All in all a good session that's given me stuff to think about. Hopefully we'll do another this weekend.

Wny did you show the 7s?

he didn't iirc,

and northy we arent necessarily toast on the QQ hand just b/c he called the 4 bet, and looking back I really wish we would have bet that flop

I actually think his hand range is weighed a lot more to hands without a K in them (JJ, QQ, TT)..I think AK he shoves for sure preflop and as we seem to really like our hand I think he would shove AA/KK as well, we sure look like we want to get it all in preflop.

I swear i wished you a happy birthday and said sweet things about arsenal.
Still hope van Persie will return soon.

Btw. Not a lot of Englishmen in the squad, does that not feel a bit different?