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wlee013
Rising Star
Bronze Level
$200 NL HE Full Ring: JJs in VEGAS
So it goes...
I went to vegas for the weekend with a couple buddies of mine for a good time and i wanted to get a good session of holdem in. So i was at the Rio. . I was 4th to act preflop. I bought in with $100 and i have folded a couple hands. I pick up JJ's and decide to raise with them after it was folded all the way to me. With the betting going on in the hands that i folded, i noticed that a standard 3x the big blind raise wasnt getting people to fold. Thus, i elected to raise 5x the big blind. I really just wanted ppl to fold and pick up the blinds so i could establish a more dominant table image.
So i raise 5x the big blind. everyone folds but the cut off. This guy was interesting. Out of all the hands i folded before my JJs, i saw him play about 75% of the hands. Very, very aggressive. He would raise with almost anything, and had the balls to fire at the pot on any street. Moreover, i saw him make a tripple barrel bluff and take it on the river. The guy even showed the bluff. I knew he didn't know what he was doing. Just having a good time, bullying the table, enjoying vegas. However, his strategy was working for he was the chip leader at the table at around 500.
Thus, it would make sense that i did not give him much credit for a hand when he called my raise. Flop...
10d 9s 6h
Since this dood was so agressive, i wanted to check to him, and let him fire. However, villan checks. Some alarms went off in my head ( i should have went with my gut feeling, but he plays so poorly that i wasn't sure what to make of it). Turn...
7c
Potentially helped him? I needed to find out so i bet 2/3 the pot. villan thought for about 10 sec and raised me 3x. I saw him make a move like this a couple hands earlier and took it down. I felt i should give him credit, but like i sad he was such a poor player that the blufing % in my head for villan was very high. I just didnt give him enough credit. I shoved. he called. River...
some blank card.
I knew by the way he called i was dead. He had Pocket 10s.
I know flopping his set on me was 20% and majority of the time i would have taken the pot down.
But was my play bad?
Revewing the hand in my head, i feel i should have bet the flop. However, even if i did so, i feel he would have either raised me, and i would have been all-in. Or he would have called my bet, and i would have bet again on the turn. However, more i think about it, regardless of how i played it, the results seemed to be the same. I was gunna bust on that hand regardless.
Any feedback? man... i KNOW im a better player than this guy... it just kills to know he smoked me on the first hand i played.
TEACH ME.....
love and respect,
wlee013
So it goes...
I went to vegas for the weekend with a couple buddies of mine for a good time and i wanted to get a good session of holdem in. So i was at the Rio. . I was 4th to act preflop. I bought in with $100 and i have folded a couple hands. I pick up JJ's and decide to raise with them after it was folded all the way to me. With the betting going on in the hands that i folded, i noticed that a standard 3x the big blind raise wasnt getting people to fold. Thus, i elected to raise 5x the big blind. I really just wanted ppl to fold and pick up the blinds so i could establish a more dominant table image.
So i raise 5x the big blind. everyone folds but the cut off. This guy was interesting. Out of all the hands i folded before my JJs, i saw him play about 75% of the hands. Very, very aggressive. He would raise with almost anything, and had the balls to fire at the pot on any street. Moreover, i saw him make a tripple barrel bluff and take it on the river. The guy even showed the bluff. I knew he didn't know what he was doing. Just having a good time, bullying the table, enjoying vegas. However, his strategy was working for he was the chip leader at the table at around 500.
Thus, it would make sense that i did not give him much credit for a hand when he called my raise. Flop...
10d 9s 6h
Since this dood was so agressive, i wanted to check to him, and let him fire. However, villan checks. Some alarms went off in my head ( i should have went with my gut feeling, but he plays so poorly that i wasn't sure what to make of it). Turn...
7c
Potentially helped him? I needed to find out so i bet 2/3 the pot. villan thought for about 10 sec and raised me 3x. I saw him make a move like this a couple hands earlier and took it down. I felt i should give him credit, but like i sad he was such a poor player that the blufing % in my head for villan was very high. I just didnt give him enough credit. I shoved. he called. River...
some blank card.
I knew by the way he called i was dead. He had Pocket 10s.
I know flopping his set on me was 20% and majority of the time i would have taken the pot down.
But was my play bad?
Revewing the hand in my head, i feel i should have bet the flop. However, even if i did so, i feel he would have either raised me, and i would have been all-in. Or he would have called my bet, and i would have bet again on the turn. However, more i think about it, regardless of how i played it, the results seemed to be the same. I was gunna bust on that hand regardless.
Any feedback? man... i KNOW im a better player than this guy... it just kills to know he smoked me on the first hand i played.
TEACH ME.....
love and respect,
wlee013