Premium hands my arse
February 28, 2007, 5:59 am
Posted by biondino in General

Last night I was lucky enough to get AA twice and KK twice in the space of 15 minutes.

All four times I lost between half a buyin and a buyin.

Let's say you have J2s on the button at £50NL 6max. It's folded to you and you raise to £2. Fair enough. Then the SB re-raises to £5. Are there any occasions (assuming you don't have a read on villain that he's a total donk who you can beat post-flop with any 2 cards 100% of the time) where calling or 4-betting is a good move?

He thought so. Especially when the flop came J92. Though he was decent enough to let me bet off my whole stack by the river (another 2, just to give me two pair and to rub it in).

My one plus of the night was beating a certain $200NL+ FTR regular who was slumming it for an evening. I get 88 in the SB, villain is on the button and, with 28/28 stats at this point, a raise is hardly a surprise. So I repop it to £5; he ups it to £13; naturally, I 5-bet to £25. "JJ no good", he types, before reluctantly folding.
haha. I only just ran into this having a read through the blogs.
Ill post the HH, but i thought you were doing me hard with TT/JJ when you minreraised. To be truthful, i felt either i was genuinly gambOOling or too commited to actually make a fold and soooooo wanted to push KQ (which is what i really had!) and know i was actually gambOOling, and not getting wtf owned.
Edit: Ive just noticed your reminraise gave you 4:1 on the pot if i stuck the rest in so you werent making an error (and i can quite freely believe you think im FOS with those 28/28 stats! although im not actually out of line preflop except against tight players defending in the sb with a 3bet)

nh and fwiw, you play goot, so move the f*&k up fish!

fwiw, my spidey sense just went off madly in this hand, hence the 4bet in position without a real premium, although the 5bet *was* a surprise. You were either bluffing or i was gambOOling i felt.

Game #3289451443: Hold'em NL (£0.25/£0.50) - 2007/02/28 - 00:52:55 (BST)
Table "Nashira" Seat 3 is the button.
Seat 1: Xxhannahx (£41.45 in chips)
Seat 2: mc2tic (£43.95 in chips)
Seat 3: lolobusto (£48 in chips)
Seat 4: Zerbombt (£81.51 in chips)
Seat 5: Insight05 (£26.86 in chips)
Seat 6: Rhodr1511 (£18.80 in chips)
Zerbombt: posts small blind £0.25
Insight05: posts big blind £0.50
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to lolobusto [Qc Kd]
Rhodr1511: folds
Xxhannahx: folds
mc2tic: folds
lolobusto: raises to £1.50
Zerbombt: raises to £4.50
Insight05: folds
lolobusto: raises to £13
Zerbombt: raises to £25
lolobusto: folds
Returned uncalled bets £12 to Zerbombt
Zerbombt: doesn't show hand
Zerbombt collected £26.50 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----
Total pot £26.50 Main pot £26.50 Rake £0
Seat 1: Xxhannahx folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: mc2tic folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: lolobusto (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Zerbombt (small blind) collected £26.50
Seat 5: Insight05 (big blind) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: Rhodr1511 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
****HAND ENDS****