A Series Of Fortunate Events (8/16)

[CobaltBlue 662]

It's not that I have a lot of questions, I realize the rule about not posting results, I know people hate long posts, and I'm also hesitant to post what looks like a brag, but I do think this series of hands might be interesting to analyze from a strategic perspective. Sometimes we get too caught up in a single hand without looking at the larger picture. Look at this as a narrative and pay particular attention to Player 4 and my evolving table image. If you've got comments, I'd love to hear them.Bodog 8/16 LHE (4,5,6-handed)Hand 1Cobalt is BB w/ Th 9h. Button (Player 1) is a bit of a donkey. He's quite loose and has been fairly aggressive.Pre-flop:1 fold, Button raises, 1 fold, Cobalt callsFlop (4.5 SB): Td 9s 9d (2 players)Cobalt checks, Button bets, Cobalt callsTurn (3.25 BB): Ks (2 players)Cobalt checks, Button bets, Cobalt raises, Button callsRiver (7.25 BB): 8h (2 players)Cobalt bets, Button callsFinal Pot: 9.25 BBResult:Button mucks AK.4 hands later...Hand 2Cobalt is BB w/ Ah Ts. No read on SB (Player 2).Pre-flop:4 folds, SB raises, Cobalt 3-bets, SB callsFlop (6 SB): 2c 9s Jh (2 players)SB checks, Cobalt bets, SB callsTurn (4 BB): Js (2 players)SB checks, Cobalt bets, SB callsRiver (6 BB): 3h (2 players)SB checks, Cobalt checksFinal Pot: 6 BBResult:SB shows AQo to win.2 hands later...Hand 3Cobalt is Button w/ Qh Qc. BB is Player 1. CO is Player 2. SB (Player 3) seems aggressive, but no significant read.Pre-flop:2 folds, CO calls, Cobalt raises, SB 3-bets, BB calls, CO calls, Cobalt caps, SB calls, BB calls, CO callsFlop (16 SB): 9h Ts 5d (4 players)3 checks, Cobalt bets, 1 fold, BB calls, CO callsTurn (9.5 BB): Jh (3 players)BB checks, CO bets, Cobalt raises, BB calls, CO callsRiver (15.5 BB): Td (3 players)BB checks, CO checks, Cobalt bets, BB calls, CO callsFinal Pot: 18.5 BBResults:BB mucks J9s. CO mucks QJs.15 hands later...Hand 4Cobalt is BB w/ Jh Td. Button (Player 4) is LAG. Earlier, I'd seen him raise Q7s UTG and K9s in LP w/ a limper. SB is Player 2.Pre-flop:1 fold, Button raises, SB calls, Cobalt callsFlop (6 SB): Ts 7d 5s (3 players)SB checks, Cobalt checks, Button bets, 1 fold, Cobalt raises, Button callsTurn (5 BB): 8c (2 players)Cobalt bets, Button raises, Cobalt callsRiver (9 BB): 9c (2 players)Cobalt bets, Button callsFinal Pot: 11 BBResults:Button mucks 77.2 hands later...Hand 5Cobalt is Button w/ Ad 9s. SB is Player 3. BB is Player 4.Cobalt raises, 2 foldsNext hand...Hand 6Cobalt is BB w/ Ad Kh. SB is Player 4. After cracking his set and raising his blind, I'm anticipating getting played back at.Pre-flop:1 fold, SB calls, Cobalt raises, SB callsFlop (4 SB): 4c 3d 3s (2 players)SB checks, Cobalt bets, SB raises, Cobalt callsTurn (4 BB): 4s (2 players)SB bets, Cobalt callsRiver (6 BB): 9d (2 players)SB bets, Cobalt callsFinal Pot: 8 BBResults:SB mucks 85s.6 hands later...Hand 7Cobalt is BB w/ Ac Js. Button is Player 4.Pre-flop:2 folds, Button raises, 1 fold, Cobalt 3-bets, Button callsFlop (6.5 SB): 4d Qd Tc (2 players)Cobalt bets, 1 foldHand 8Cobalt is CO w/ Ad As. Button is Player 3. BB is Player 4. SB (Player 5) is new, so no read.Pre-flop:1 fold, Cobalt raises, Button 3-bets, SB calls, BB calls, Cobalt caps, Button calls, SB calls, BB callsFlop (12 SB): Ah 8s 4c (4 players)SB bets, BB calls, Cobalt calls, Button callsTurn (8 BB): 5h (4 players)SB bets, BB calls, Cobalt raises, 1 fold, SB calls, BB callsRiver (14 BB): 6s (3 players)SB bets, 1 fold, Cobalt callsFinal Pot: 16 BBResults:SB mucks AKo.2 hands later...Hand 9Cobalt is BB w/ Ah Qd. Button is Player 5. SB is Player 4.Pre-flop:1 fold, Button calls, SB calls, Cobalt raises, Button calls, SB callsFlop (6 SB): 7c 5d 3h (3 players)SB checks, Cobalt bets, Button calls, SB callsTurn (4.5 BB): 3 (3 players)SB checks, Cobalt bets, 1 fold, SB raises, Cobalt callsRiver (8.5 BB): J (2 players)SB bets, Cobalt callsFinal Pot: 10.5 BBResults:SB mucks 86o.4 hands later...Hand 10Cobalt is CO w/ Ks Kh. BB is Player 4.Pre-flop:Cobalt raises, 2 folds, BB callsFlop (4.5 SB): 2c 6h 8d (2 players)BB checks, Cobalt bets, BB raises, Cobalt 3-bets, BB capsTurn (6.25 BB): 5s (2 players)BB bets, Cobalt raises, BB 3-bets, Cobalt callsRiver (18.25 BB): Jh (2 players)BB bets, Cobalt callsFinal Pot: 20.25 BBResults:BB mucks 98o.

[mikeysong 0]

wow.honestly, the last hand, u should've capped turn and called river. He's pretty stubborn to try and make a play at you twiceI don't know what player4 was thinking. I put him on tilt if anything since your image at this table is very very solidas for analyzing from a strategic perspective...I dunno, they all seemed pretty standard - altho I check-raise teh flop w/the 10,9 rather than turn since ppl are more likely to call me down

[iggymcfly 0]

I got bored after a while, but I definitely think you should have C/Red the river the hand where your JT sucked out the straight. This whole idea is why I don't like posting SHLHE hands though, as there are so many little details that are involved in your play that you can't possibly keep track of them in a forum post, and while bunching these together is a nice effort, showing ten hands out of 100 in a session doesn't really help other posters get a read either.Once you have the fundamentals down, I think the game's all about half-consciously keeping track of little details about other players and exploiting them. I think I make at least an extra BB/100 just by keeping track of which players think a hesitation on my part means a bluff and which ones think it means a monster. That's why I greatly prefer playing 2 tables of 20/40 or 30/60 3-6 handed to trying to play a bunch of tables at lower limits.

[CobaltBlue 662]

I got bored after a while, but I definitely think you should have C/Red the river the hand where your JT sucked out the straight. This whole idea is why I don't like posting SHLHE hands though, as there are so many little details that are involved in your play that you can't possibly keep track of them in a forum post, and while bunching these together is a nice effort, showing ten hands out of 100 in a session doesn't really help other posters get a read either.

The problem with check-raising that river is that four to the straight came out. I think most opponents are going to check behind when that happens, so I think that's often a missed bet.I mostly included those hands that I was involved in. There were few others that were notable in that span.

[iggymcfly 0]

Yeah, but a lot of your reads come from things that opponents do when you're not in a hand, and while you gave a lot of information, I'm sure there are lots of details you missed. Again, this is probably a lot better than a typical strat post here; I'm just saying that there are so many details involved in LHE hands that you can't possibly stay interested enough to pay attention to all of them unless you're either playing yourself or at the very least watching someone else play. As for the river C/R, it depends on how aggressive the villian is, but I've found that most mid-limit players will bet and call a raise there with two pair or better, and we have to think villian has at least two pair from his turn raise.