Life in the low limits

Since I’ve last posted, I’ve still been doing well in the 50 NL games. I’ve made another 11 buy ins ($550) or so over like two thousand hands. I messaged tannenj on cardrunners the other day about his full tilt mods. They are by far the coolest mods I had ever seen. Here’s the link for anybody that wants to see them.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showpost.php?p=5450217&postcount=6

It’s so easy to multi table with these mods cause it’s almost impossible to misread suits or cards, which is just another good thing about them, outside of the fact that they just look awesome.

I played in a live tourney at the club last Friday and I put myself on life tilt when I bubbled. We are four handed and on the bubble and it folds to me in the SB and I look down at J3 suited with blinds at 1k/2k and a 200 ante. I had 14k in chips and there was a real tight player in the BB. I decided to shove since he did not have many chips either (He may have had me covered by like 3k or so) and that the fact that he would not want to bubble would make him fold out almost anything. He sits there hemming and hawing and eventually folds and tells me that he is folding KQ. I think that I dodged a bullet until I hear the words “I call” shouted from the chip leader with like 70k who apparently limped in under the gun. I did not realize that he had limped in and neither did any1 else, but he did have his 2k in the pot and he didn’t pull any angles. If I had seen that he had limped, I would have known that he is not going to fold for another 12k as he is very capable of making a call with many marginal hands (He called a 10 bb shove earlier in the final table with 44). In this instance he limped a big hand, and snap called with two kings and I was sent to the rail. I was so tilted after that I couldn’t even sit and play in the cash game cause my brain was just not there. I just went home and yelled at myself on the car ride home.

Anyways…. here are some of the more interesting hands from the the past week or so. Hopefully I figure out how to work the link application in this thing as in my last post, my links got all messed up. So here goes nothing.

Here in a limped pot I had no reads on my opponent, but I figured the best way to win a big pot was to build a big pot. If I recall correctly, he was running somewhere close to a 30/15 type style and figured that he was going to go with his hand since he raised the turn, so I 3bet the turn in order to get it in.

In this one, this guy was seriously running at about 85/6 or something about that, and really hated folding flops. So here I just decided to overbet shove the river for value figuring he wasn’t folding anything in his range.

This was against the same guy. So as soon as he bet the flop, I know he’s not folding. Nice hand sir.

This was probably one of the funnest hands I’ve ever played. The villain was running at 55/25 and was super aggressive and again didn’t like to fold. When he led for a pot size bet on the flop, I knew he wasn’t bluffing and liked his hand, so I overbet in order to get it in. Horray for having people drawing dead.

I almost considered folding this hand. It was early in the session and I wasn’t sure where I was at. When the flop came, I just couldn’t find the fold button lol good thing I didn’t.

This one I just played bad. I should have just folded preflop to prevent myself from getting in these kind of spots. Post flop I don’t see how I’m supposed to play it any differently. If only I didn’t hit a “good” turn card lol

I knew this guy wasn’t bluffing. I was sure he had a J. I was just hoping he hadn’t filled up already. I’m not sure if I like my play here cause I knew I was getting called. So I suppose I could have just called down and hope that hes not full. But in the heat of the moment I thought that against a J I should just get it in and not let him get there without my stack going in. Sigh.

I took this guy to valuetown here. The way the hand played out, I’m going to move him in every time. I’ve found that the donk lead at this level is never anything that strong.

This was just a cooler against a good regular at this limit. I’m going to have to go broke every time here.

One of the few three barrel bluffs I’ve ran at this limit. The way the cards fell I just had to keep firing because each card that came down is going to hit my perceived range. I thought he had something like 8 9 suited or 77, 55, etc. and couldn’t call on the river.

Early in the session here and was just pretty standard on my part. I was surprised to see how light he got it in a 3bet pot, but hooray for me.

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