CC $25 ring game, SP #2

[SavagePenguin]

I obviously overplayed/underplayed this on the river.
I should mention that this was about a dozen hands in, and I've never played any of these people in a ring game before.

pokerstars Game #15505725559: Hold'em No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2008/02/23 - 21:34:49 (ET)
Table 'Izar II' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: Qhr1s ($34.70 in chips)
Seat 2: dj13 ($32 in chips)
Seat 3: Duke748 ($27.20 in chips)
Seat 4: zachvac ($54.70 in chips)
Seat 5: dakota-xx ($38.45 in chips)
Seat 6: tenbob ($28.20 in chips)
Seat 7: SvgePenguin ($22.50 in chips)
Seat 8: aloevera ($87.05 in chips)
Seat 9: aces2daface ($18.35 in chips)
tenbob: posts small blind $0.10
SvgePenguin: posts big blind $0.25
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to SvgePenguin [4d Ad]
aloevera: folds
aces2daface: folds
Qhr1s: folds
dj13: folds
Duke748: folds
zachvac: raises $0.75 to $1
dakota-xx: folds
tenbob: folds
SvgePenguin: calls $0.75
*** FLOP *** [6h 5c 3s]
SvgePenguin: bets $1
zachvac: raises $1.75 to $2.75
SvgePenguin: calls $1.75
*** TURN *** [6h 5c 3s] [Ac]
SvgePenguin: bets $4
zachvac: calls $4
*** RIVER *** [6h 5c 3s Ac] [6s]
SvgePenguin: bets $7
zachvac: calls $7
*** SHOW DOWN ***
SvgePenguin: shows [4d Ad] (two pair, Aces and Sixes)
zachvac: shows [As Kc] (two pair, Aces and Sixes - King kicker)
zachvac collected $28.20 from pot


I did end up finishing ahead a little bit at this table. But that was due to a lot of little plays, and a lot of good players leaving and being replaced by not-as-good players.

 

[tenbob]

Urggghhhh..


the thing is when your playing one of these forum cash games your either playing for the craic or serioiusly.

Fold to the pre-flop raise.

Stabbing at the pot on the flop is fine, give it up then and there to any resistance, you playing against better than the standard, realise that If it was me then id say fine, but Zach takes these things seriously

 

[SavagePenguin]

Yeah, a questionable call gave me an open ended draw that lead to a very weak top pair that I went too far with.

It was poorly played and I deserved to lose.

I think most of it is bad but forgivable, up until I bet the river.

It did sober me up a bit, and I did better after that.

 

[zachvac]

First off, you should probably fold this preflop. Secondly, this is not a great flop for you. You have 8 outs to the straight but either one kills your action as it puts 4 to a straight on the board. A stab is fine but I don't understand your logic behind calling that flop raise. You can't believe you're good, you're not getting odds, and there are 0 implied odds for that kind of draw. If you had me on the kind of hand I did have actually, a call is fine if you're going to bluff later, but these look more like value bets on the turn and river. How do you play that turn if the A or straight doesn't hit? I was actually afraid you had a 2-pair type hand, because you flat called that raise and then bet the A. I thought maybe you had A3, A5, or A6. That 6 definitely made me feel better about my hand because I'm now ahead of A3 and A5. Pretty easy call there for me but if you push there as I seriously was expecting you to do I have a really tough decision. Also unless you thought you were ahead that river bet is not good. If I have you beat I call and if I am behind I fold. fwiw if you check there I check behind happily with AK there. There are just so many hands that have you beat there that will call the $7 and check behind if you check. You save $7 from those hands and I don't think you get any value from anything you beat from that hand. The only value I see in that river bet is maybe a blocking bet if you're afraid of me bluffing with a shove. I highly doubt that was your intent.

If it was me then id say fine, but Zach takes these things seriously

And if I was rolled for 400nl I may mess around at this table as well, but as these are the tables I normally play at my goal is to make money. If we were playing at the 1c/2c tables I may mess around too, but with this much money on the table, you can bet I'm taking this seriously .