So my 2024 resolution is to track my big hands better regarding the action. I often don't remember the positions or betting leading up to the bigger moment....so I'm going to work on that. I had installed a free iOS Keyboard app called "Poker HH" in ~2019 but I never think of using it, so I am going to start!
On with the hands from Thursday's 1/3
PAHWM (Play A Hand With Me):
Here's the action I think happened, I only really know the Turn action in detail....
~$300 effective stacks
Preflop: Hero in HJ calls $3 with
XX, BB raises to $13, Hero calls
Flop: A72 rainbow, BB bets $15, Hero calls
Turn: A (here is where it gets interesting) BB Checks, Hero bets $50, BB raises to $125, Hero jams for $210 total, BB
?????
What do you do in BB's spot with anything but an Ace (or Full House Obviously)......? and What do you think I had?
Another hand:
~$400 eff stacks
Preflop: Hero is in HJ and raises to $10 with KsQs, OMC calls from the BB
Flop: Ts8s3s (As Wolfgang would say: BANG!), BB checks, Hero bets $15, BB raises to $30, Hero thinks for a minute and calls
Turn: 6c, BB leads out for $55, Hero shoves All In covering BB for ~$300+ more, BB folds
My thoughts here were: If he flopped the Ace high flush while I flopped the King high flush, then fine, he deserves all of my chips.... but I figured (correctly) that he only had the Ace of spades and was loading his bluffs to that range more than a nutted range. A few minutes after the hand, he told the guy to his right that he had the As with a straight draw, so I'm guessing As9x..... I just knew that I didn't want to see another Spade and when I called the flop raise, I kept thinking to myself, no spade, no spade, no spade...... LOL
Last interesting hand:
~$300 eff stacks
Preflop: Hero is MP+2 and calls with AJo, Button (a younger more aggressive type) raises to $13, Hero calls
Flop: Ax6x2h, Hero checks, Button bets $15, Hero calls
Turn: Th, Hero checks, Button bets $35, Hero calls
River: 6h, Hero checks, Button bets $80, Hero tanks (felt like 2-3 minutes...) and calls
Button says "Nice call" and shows 9d8d and says "I missed"
My thoughts: I'm not a big fan of offsuit Aces, even 'big' ones, and so I decided in that moment to just call AJo and then call the raise since it was heads up, multi-way or if a 3-bet came, I would fold...
Then, I hit an Ace, so while I realize I could be getting reverse implied odds, I felt for a 1/3 game that my hand was under-repped *just* enough that I needed to proceed.....
It was really on the river where I was in the blender....there was just this nagging thought in my mind that while yes it seemed like I had an Ace, it was just too strong to fold, and while I realize it's losing call most of the time, I just had to see it......maybe my bluff meter was tuned in or something, but I felt there were enough weaker Aces that would think they were value betting. I was really only worried with AK, AQ and AT and yet there were more bluffs and weaker Aces that pushed me over the call line..... so I flipped a chip in and heard those magical words "Nice Call".......
So, let's discuss the first hand and let me know what you think I had and what do you do if you're the Villain holding JJ-KKs or what?
