Most of the time I will raise that spot. This guy was crazy agressive post flop so I figured I would just call and CR him on the flop whether I improved or not with what is likely the best hand. Out of position I will just call alot of times with AK or AQ because I play them well post flop in regard to extracting extra bets from then due to deception particularly in full ring games with several callers already in. Alot of folks believe you should raise from the Small or Big Blind all the time with AK but I am just not in that corner as I like to invest the minimum when out of position and make up for it when I do hit and lose the minimum when I whiff which will be 2/3 of the time. This style of play works for me. If I raise preflop into 3 other folks and now there are 8 bets in the pot and it comes Q85 what are you going to do? Lead out into them (what do you do when you get called or raised here??), check and fold to a bet. Being out of position sucks.

Another scenario, you raise the AK into three people and the flop comes KJ5. You lead (9 and change big bets in the pot now), guy with QJ now has the proper odds to draw to his hand so he is making the correct decision by calling here. If you don't raise and same scenario now he is making an incorrect decision but a decision more often than not that he will make incorrectly. By keeping the pot small you are making people make mistakes and everytime they make mistakes in their calls you win. Of course if you raise the pot is larger but for the times you don't win in this situation you have put more money into it as well. The question then lies does the times you miss the flop and the times you hit it and lose make up for the times you win the pot when raising preflop? I am willing to gamble that an excellent post flop player that calls in that situation extracts the same amount as does a person that raises in this situation when all things are considered.

Managed to put in another small session of PLO8 and 36 limit. Had a nice time with the BTP weak tight boys. Caught alot of huge hands preflop, I must have gotten 27o at least 4 times in those 2 hours, and when you get those types of hands it's hard not to come away winner.

Empire 5-10 6 max, 11 hands, 36.00
Empire 3-6 limit, 200 hands, 61.99
PLO8 25, 67 hands, -7.76
Rake: 5.38
Various: 29.97
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Total: 125.58
Time: 2h5m


Party Poker 3/6 Hold'em (8 handed)

Preflop: Hero is CO with , .
4 folds, Hero raises, Button 3-bets, 1 fold, BB caps, Hero calls, Button calls.

Flop: (12.33 SB) , , (3 players)
BB bets, Hero raises, Button folds, BB calls.

Turn: (8.16 BB) (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets, BB folds.

Final Pot: 9.16 BB

Results in white below:
No showdown. Hero wins 9.16 BB.

hahaha Piers, I gotta ask you, did you originally raise 27o just to be cute? I used to do that in No-Limit games with friends.

No there is not alot of cuteness in my game, everything I do is for a reason including raising 27o. My opponent in the Big Blind is pretty much on the weak tight side like myself so I figured he would lay down pretty easily if he called barring him hitting the nuts. It was a very player dependent raise. After the flop the hand pretty much played itself when I flopped the strong bottom pair with a redraw to trips or two pair.

When I play pretty close to perfection and still come out on the negative side that just sucks. Was really in a zone for this early morning session on my reads and maximizing pots but still ended up down 30 some odd dollars due to suckouts and a couple of really good second best hands.

Well a short session of 10-20 limit righted the ship again. Surprisingly loose tables at that limit particularly this early in the day.

Empire/Multi 10-20 limit, 54 hands, 88.00
Empire/Multi 3-6 limit, 485 hands, -38.50
Rake: 18.49
Various: 50.25
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Total: 118.24
Time: 1h45m

Play him like a chump and get beat down.

Party Poker 3/6 Hold'em (9 handed)

Preflop: Hero is SB with , .
7 folds, Hero raises, BB calls.

Flop: (4 SB) , , (2 players)
Hero bets, BB calls.

Turn: (3 BB) (2 players)
Hero checks, BB bets, Hero raises, BB calls.

River: (7 BB) (2 players)
Hero bets, BB calls.

Final Pot: 9 BB

Results in white below:
Hero has Kc As (one pair, aces).
BB has Ah 2h (two pair, aces and twos).
Outcome: BB wins 9 BB.

Played a couple late afternoon session with TW and in the second annihilated one table and got crushed on the other but managed to pull out a win nonetheless. One fool was just running over the table with shit. I finally managed to crack him pretty good on a couple of hands before he left but I still felt very much "unsatisfied".

Empire/Multi 10-20 limit, 54 hands, 88.00
Empire 3-6 6 max, 11 hands, 27.00
Empire/Multi 3-6 limit, 901 hands, 84.00
Multi PLO8 25, 233 hands, 2.70
Rake: 18.49
Various: 50.25
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Total: 270.44
Time: 5h25m

Big Hand of the Day, A TW special with Q10o.

***** Hand History for Game 2751458380 *****
3/6 TEXAS HOLD'EM GAME TABLE (LIMIT) - WED SEP 21 17:29:32 EDT 2005
Table Table 15634 (Real Money) -- Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: powerjack02 ( $193.50)
Seat 2: eghtballr ( $50)
Seat 3: azmoo ( $138)
Seat 4: DogReplacer ( $218)
Seat 5: tokenpusher ( $107)
Seat 6: TangRocks ( $350)
Seat 7: ghostman64 ( $201)
Seat 8: capitangato ( $103.75)
Seat 9: jpwingman ( $44.50)
Seat 10: Lucia_Cortez ( $5114.50)
jpwingman posts small blind (1)
Lucia_Cortez posts big blind (3)
eghtballr posts big blind (3)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Lucia_Cortez [ Qd, Th ]
capitangato: yawn
powerjack02 folds.
eghtballr checks.
azmoo folds.
DogReplacer folds.
tokenpusher folds.
TangRocks folds.
ghostman64 folds.
capitangato raises (6) to 6
jpwingman calls (5)
Lucia_Cortez: very loose call
Lucia_Cortez calls (3)
capitangato: sweet
capitangato: wingman is scared of me
eghtballr calls (3)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ Jd, 9h, Kh ]
Lucia_Cortez: god damn the pushing man
jpwingman checks.
Lucia_Cortez checks.
eghtballr checks.
capitangato bets (3)
jpwingman raises (6) to 6
Lucia_Cortez raises (9) to 9
jpwingman: dont say gd
eghtballr calls (9)
capitangato raises (9) to 12
capitangato: whee
jpwingman calls (6)
TangRocks: god damn right, wing!
Lucia_Cortez: come on now god can suck my dick
Lucia_Cortez calls (3)
eghtballr calls (3)
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 5h ]
AKsoGay: wow
jpwingman bets (6)
Lucia_Cortez: nice turn there
Lucia_Cortez raises (12) to 12
jpwingman: please stop
TangRocks: oh fine.
eghtballr calls (12)
capitangato: ugh
capitangato folds.
jpwingman raises (12) to 18
AKsoGay: CAPPUCINO!
Lucia_Cortez: well shit guess I got outdrawn again
Lucia_Cortez raises (12) to 24
eghtballr calls (12)
capitangato: someone better have a monster
jpwingman calls (6)
** Dealing River ** : [ Ad ]
AKsoGay: muck!
jpwingman checks.
Lucia_Cortez bets (6)
eghtballr bets (8)
eghtballr is all-In.
jpwingman calls (2.50)
jpwingman is all-In.
AKsoGay: the strongest move for JP here is to muck i think
Lucia_Cortez calls (2)
Creating Main Pot with $148.50 with jpwingman
Creating Side Pot 1 with $11 with eghtballr
** Summary **
Main Pot: $148.50 | Side Pot 1: $11 | | Rake: $3
Board: [ Jd 9h Kh 5h Ad ]
powerjack02 balance $193.50, didn't bet (folded)
eghtballr balance $0, lost $50 [ Kc 9s ] [ two pairs, kings and nines -- Ad,Kc,Kh,9s,9h ]
azmoo balance $138, didn't bet (folded)
DogReplacer balance $218, didn't bet (folded)
tokenpusher balance $107, didn't bet (folded)
TangRocks balance $350, didn't bet (folded)
ghostman64 balance $201, didn't bet (folded)
capitangato balance $85.75, lost $18 (folded)
jpwingman balance $0, lost $44.50 [ Kd 5c ] [ two pairs, kings and fives -- Ad,Kd,Kh,5c,5h ]
Lucia_Cortez balance $5224, bet $50, collected $159.50, net +$109.50 [ Qd Th ] [ a straight, ten to ace -- Ad,Kh,Qd,Jd,Th ]

Of course you buy in to a 3/6 game with >5k. Of course you hit the straight, and of course, you tilt the guy in the process.

Dr. Majestyk, I presume?

They were so far behind they were too stupid to fold to the check-3-bet.

Is the 5k buyin to give the idea of being some kind of don't care/high roller image, or could you not be bothered typing '200' in the buyin box?

Molina