Thoughts on my play here please...

$100 NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, September 03, 00:45:35 EDT 2005
Table Table 37255 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 2: SrBigSlick ( $104.95 )
Seat 3: psychobeauty ( $69 )
Seat 6: jrhawki1 ( $261.93 )
Seat 8: Robbit ( $45.35 )
Seat 9: Laeelin ( $148.95 )
Seat 10: Julaka ( $199.85 )
Seat 1: breakya ( $78 )
Seat 5: SecondHndRos ( $166.20 )
Seat 7: AgentLace ( $95.50 )
Seat 4: jcm894 ( $100 )
psychobeauty posts small blind [$0.50].
jcm894 posts big blind [$1].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Laeelin [ Kh Th ]
SecondHndRos folds.
jrhawki1 folds.
AgentLace calls [$1].
Robbit folds.
Laeelin raises [$4].
Julaka folds.
breakya calls [$4].
SrBigSlick folds.
psychobeauty folds.
jcm894 folds.
AgentLace calls [$3].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3h, Td, 7h ]
AgentLace checks.
Laeelin bets [$15].
breakya folds.
AgentLace raises [$30].
Laeelin is all-In [$129.95]
AgentLace is all-In [$61.50]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6s ]
** Dealing River ** [ Ah ]
>You have options at Table 36849 Table!.
AgentLace shows [ 7d, 7c ] three of a kind, sevens.
Laeelin shows [ Kh, Th ] a flush, ace high.
Laeelin wins $53.45 from side pot #1 with a flush, ace high.
Laeelin wins $193.50 from the main pot with a flush, ace high.


Note: I only played this hand preflop to steal on the flop.. this was an easy table to steal from.. so I was stealing fairly often...

My thought on the flop was she probally though I was stealing again (AgentLace is NOT a fish) , and thats why she reraised.. I figured, good flush draw + TPGK was a reasonable hand to semi-bluff with...


Did I play right and get lucky to win?
Did I play bad and get lucky to win?

Thoughts?

What hand did you put them on? Pocket pair or flush draw? You did have outs but when they reraised, I don't know. If they are on the flush draw an Ace beats you. If they have pockets, they could have tripped the board or even have a higher pocket than9 and beat you. Even JJ will call that raise in EP rather than reraising. Seems like many hands beat you with that preflop play.

Nice aggressive play that payed off.

My read was that she thought that I was stealing, and she had saw me go all in with the nuts several times (aka, this was the only time my all in wasnt with set +)

I think this is a hand that depends on how confident your reads are. If she isn't a fish, I'm not so sure that she would limp/call your MP raise with Axs out of position. Limp EP, call a raise, check knowing you'll try to steal, and a minraise, to me, reads like a set, especially if she knows you're going to try to steal and not check behind.

I'd say most of the time she has a set (60-70), a lot less for JJ (10-20), maybe 10% for Axs and you're a coinflip, and 10-20% she's unimproved and thinks you're trying to steal and tries represent the set. While I wouldn't put a whole lot of money on her semi/bluffing, I was not the one playing with her, and thats sort of the X factor.

I would prefer to call and just take one off getting decent odds for your flush draw, and fold to a big bet by her on the turn. I guess thats why you're $95.50 richer than me. ;]