Played 2.5k hands but unfortunately didn't hit all that many interesting spots.

I abused a lagg a little bit, check-raising ai on the turn a bunch and pretty much always getting him to fold.

Here's the one hand I wanna discuss :

Playing a bunch of tables I’ve kind of switched to a 4-bet or fold style preflop, both in and out of position (although close to 100% OOP).

When I DO call, here’s a pretty basic thing that I do quite a bit vs thinking opponents :

Game #7791518624: Hold'em NL ($2/$5) - 2008/09/19 - 21:51:40 (UK)
Table "Parksville" Seat 2 is the button.
Seat 1: Grasso2 ($186 in chips)
Seat 2: cleanuout ($150.08 in chips)
Seat 3: Jonahmog ($1312.70 in chips)
Seat 4: Esox01 ($500 in chips)
Seat 5: Ravageur ($1152.55 in chips)
Seat 6: HERO ($500 in chips)
Jonahmog: posts small blind $2
Esox01: posts big blind $5
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO
Ravageur: folds
HERO: raises to $17
Grasso2: folds
cleanuout: folds
Jonahmog: folds
Esox01: raises to $55
HERO: calls $38
----- FLOP -----
Esox01: bets $77
HERO: calls $77
----- TURN -----
Esox01: checks
HERO: checks
----- RIVER -----
Esox01: checks
HERO: bets $135
Esox01: folds
Returned uncalled bets $135 to HERO
HERO: doesn't show hand
HERO collected $263 from Main pot

His flop betting range is likely AK+ since he was running about 20/12 and unlikely to be 3-betting hands like KQ and KJ. Also, his flop c-bet was insta (i.e. ooh I have the nuts I bet or “ooh K hi flop I win most of the time, I bet!”).

I see lots of ppl who call in position in 3-bet pots just shove over c-bets. This looks a little too polarized in my mind so I prefer to call the flop repping TTish hands or exactly KQ/KJ.

After he checks the turn, I go for an extra – and possibly unnecessary – level of complexity : since some ppl love to checkraise ai on the turn to get more money from floats, I check behind planning on making a fake value-bet on the river to fold out mid PP’s (what hand am I calling the flop with – besides a total float – that something like 88 or TT beats when I bet the riv?). I feel like this is a lot more credible to most regs than float flop – steal turn.


As for the results, I busted KK into AA deep in a tourney and was pretty much breakeven for the session. I felt like I got closer to my A-game as the session progressed and there are a couple semi-interesting hands I might post later tonight if I'm high and bored enough.