Another good night and another night where I seemed to do really well on one table and fluctuate up and down on the other two. I hit a great hand on the end on table 2 to end up showing a nice little profit on that table.
Paradise Poker 2/4 Hold’em (10 handed)
Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with 9c, 9s.
UTG calls, Hero raises, UTG+2 folds, MP1 folds, MP2 folds, MP3 folds, CO calls, Button 3-bets, SB calls, BB folds, UTG calls, Hero calls, CO calls.
Flop: (16 SB) 9d, 3s, 4c (5 players)
SB bets, UTG folds, Hero raises, CO calls, Button folds, SB 3-bets, Hero caps, CO calls, SB calls.
Turn: (14 BB) 8c (3 players)
SB checks, Hero bets, CO calls, SB calls.
I was thinking about check-raising here but I wasn’t sure CO would bet and I knew he had a high pair and would at least call. Wasn’t sure what SB had but I was thinking he had a pair of eights.
River: (17 BB) 2h (3 players)
SB checks, Hero bets, CO calls, SB calls.
Again, SB was too passive (but a good caller) to bet out so I had to decide whether or not CO would bet here if his hand didn’t improve. Seeing as how I was pretty sure he would call and so would SB, that’s 2BB. If I check-raise and I lose SB then I would only get 2BB from CO. If he checked it, I lose 2BB.
Final Pot: 20 BB
Main Pot: 20 BB, between CO, SB and Hero. > Pot won by Hero (20 BB).
Results:
SB shows Qc Qh (one pair, queens).
Hero shows 9c 9s (three of a kind, nines).
CO shows Js 9h (one pair, nines).
Outcome: Hero wins 20 BB.
I played 411 hands and ended up:
Table 1: +$4.00
Table 2: +$61.00
Table 3: +$76.50
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Total: +$141.50
According to PokerTracker, I’m averaging 8.66BB per 100 hands. I don’t think that’ll hold up forever. I’m seeing 18.33% of the flops when I’m not in the blinds which is good also.
I have to be honest with myself and acknowledge I didn’t play as well as I could have tonight. I made a few mistakes and I knew I made them the second I clicked the mouse. I chased a few hands that I should have folded on the flop, played hands like QJo out of position, and I got too excited on some hands and missed an opportunity to collect a few more bets by check-raising the flop or turn. All in all, I would guess my bad decisions cost me about 10 – 15BB tonight. I’ve been getting lucky by hitting a home run on one table that makes up for breaking even on the other tables but I need to plug those leaks.
One of the things that has been a little frustrating is that no matter how loose or passive a table is when I sit down, it seems to get more aggressive and tight as the session goes on. I go from a table where I could get a free ride on the blind 60% – 70% of the time to not even counting on seeing the flop because it’s nearly guaranteed that we’ll see at least one raise before it comes around. Paradise only seems to be spreading 10 or 12 $2/$4 games and there’s a waiting list on all of them so I can’t simply get up and find a less aggressive table.
There’s a rumor going around that one of the regular players is actually a bot. Someone mentioned it to me last night and I ended up having this “person” at one of my tables both last night as well as this evening. He’s usually playing multiple tables and plays pretty tight. He has approx. $360 in chips at all of the tables he plays at and reloads to $360 any time he goes below that amount. Maybe he is a bot and maybe he’s not but my impression is that he plays pretty ABC poker and there doesn’t seem to be any difference in the pause before he makes a play. Regardless of whether he’s checking, folding, betting or raising he usually takes about 5 seconds to respond when it’s his turn. Either way, I don’t care, I still made $36 off of him/it.
Goal: $2000
Actual: $311.75
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To go: $1688.25