MissJacki's Cash Game Challenge

[Jacki Burkhart]

Good luck
Will be following.
Personally never limping along with small suited garbage like 42 for exactly the reason that you never know if your flush is going to be good. Ax suited fine I limp along.
AK If the HJ is a good player and has been floating you, I would probably fire the turn there and maybe even give him 3 barrels as we have the nut flush ace.
Not sure about the river actually, hes going to have a lot of 2 pairs here or a small flush , so I might check fold or check shove depending on reads.
Have you read Ed Millers live cash games books? If not I can thoroughly recommend them.

Yes After I was wondering about that 24dd hand. Also wondering if given then action I should raise flop; but I think the flop play is fine. Preflop maybe not.

The AK hand I’m fairly certain I was beat once he raises river. Yes he’s good but he’s also gonna be putting me on a strong hand. And he called my flop bet in a multiway pit with SOMETHING and basically every something improved.

I’m just wondering if I should lead river or if I should check/call instead. Check folding seems too nitty.

Regarding the ed Miller books; I have not read them. I will add to my list. Thanks for the recommendation. Is it a series? Pretty obvious which ones you’re referring to?

 

[Jacki Burkhart]

I may have messed this hand up.

Table has been crazy action lots of gambling and drinking. I have about $380 in front of me.

There’s an UTG straddle for $5 and one of the action guys makes it $10 from MP

I flat button with

SB and Straddle both call.

Pot $42



MP cbets $15 and I raise to $40 on Button and everyone folds.

Should I just flat there? I figured with 4 people and a flush draw I could get action from at least a pocket pair 22+ or 2 big cards...?

My image is I’ve been active and playing a lot of pots. I haven’t made a ton of flop raises but a least 3 over a few hours.

Everyone had me covered except the MP raiser guy who had maybe $275

 

[rachelle2291]

Hi
Good luck Jacki! I was wondering if it was harder to make money online at those stakes or live. I guess online you would be able to play multiple tables and you wouldnt have expenses of getting to the casino but you wouldnt have the reads of the players like you do playing live.

 

[Jacki Burkhart]

Hi
Good luck Jacki! I was wondering if it was harder to make money online at those stakes or live. I guess online you would be able to play multiple tables and you wouldnt have expenses of getting to the casino but you wouldnt have the reads of the players like you do playing live.

I do play online and Online stakes are definitely tougher even though you can
Multitable most players have done some study. You rarely get crazy action and boredom/curiosity calls.

Online cash is a different game really; HUDS and more GTO matching ranges bs ranges. Live micro players are so much softer. They’re drinking they’re full of tells most of them don’t study the game. Their egos get involved. My BB/hour is waaaaay higher live. Plus I just find it more fun to be able to get out and see my friends and socialize

 

[Ahoy]

I may have messed this hand up.

Table has been crazy action lots of gambling and drinking. I have about $380 in front of me.

There’s an UTG straddle for $5 and one of the action guys makes it $10 from MP

I flat button with

SB and Straddle both call.

Pot $42



MP cbets $15 and I raise to $40 on Button and everyone folds.

Should I just flat there? I figured with 4 people and a flush draw I could get action from at least a pocket pair 22+ or 2 big cards...?

My image is I’ve been active and playing a lot of pots. I haven’t made a ton of flop raises but a least 3 over a few hours.

Everyone had me covered except the MP raiser guy who had maybe $275

Absolutely safe to just flatcall. No need do raise, you can just call this flop and go for max value on later streets.

 

[Jacki Burkhart]

Absolutely safe to just flatcall. No need do raise, you can just call this flop and go for max value on later streets.

Yes I know it’s safe to flat (in that I don’t need protection)

Typically I would flat here but because 4 people still in and crazy action table I kinda thought a flop raise would get looked up lighter than a turn or river raise.

If i want to get my stack in I’ll have to raise a street somewhere....or so it seems with 190bb to start

I was thinking if someone called I could bet something like 65-90 on turn and I’d have roughly a pot sized river shove...

Maybe I’m overthinking it

 

[hugh blair]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csx0t_A9SF4&t=3s

My first post....is me faceplanting on a live streamed $5/10 game.

I agreed to play in this game that was too big for me at my local cardroom because I was preparing for poker night in america and I thought it would be a good simulation of the same pressures I would feel on that show. I only had 3 weeks to prepare so I think it was correct for me to take this opportunity, even though I played quite poorly. (I can't say why 100%). Probably a combination of being in stakes that I wasn't comfortable with and being filmed and critiqued and I just choked.

Very nice good luck Jacki:fight:

 

[Bricxjo]

I do play online and Online stakes are definitely tougher even though you can
Multitable most players have done some study. You rarely get crazy action and boredom/curiosity calls.

Online cash is a different game really; HUDS and more GTO matching ranges bs ranges. Live micro players are so much softer. They’re drinking they’re full of tells most of them don’t study the game. Their egos get involved. My BB/hour is waaaaay higher live. Plus I just find it more fun to be able to get out and see my friends and socialize

Hi Jacki,
Sounds like you are already enjoying the live scene. I hope you have lots of fun. Do you get recognized at the tables?

Good luck to you
:icon_sunn Brian :icon_sunn

 

[Figaroo2]

22 hand is fine to raise or call. You are only going to get called (or raised) by Qx or a spade draw, if they don't have that on the flop then its unlikely they are ever going to improve enough to call a decent bet on the paired board.
A call under reps and allows someone to bluff at it, so it does give you another way to win.
I think on balance I prefer a call but I dont think it really matters that much.

 

[CRStals]

All the best to you Jacki, looking forward to following along with you!!!!

 

[Jacki Burkhart]

Ok I’m back at it! $1/2 bought in for $300. I was out of town for over a week on family vacation. Happy to be back in the grind

 

[Zorba]

Ok I’m back at it! $1/2 bought in for $300. I was out of town for over a week on family vacation. Happy to be back in the grind

Good luck Jacki.

:top:

 

[Bricxjo]

Good luck, will be cheering you on.

 

[Jacki Burkhart]

Down -$257 after 2.75 hours

Subtotal: -$259 Over 8.25 hours

 

[Jacki Burkhart]

There weren't too many interesting hands. some coolers.

Here was one semi interesting spot (I prefer presenting close spots or spots where the answers aren't so obvious....most my big hands last night were just obvious and didn't go my way).

OK so this is $1/2. The button straddle is on for $5

SB limps the straddle off a stack of about $180 (which he has been doing a lot even though he is otherwise tight and kinda good. besides me I'd say he is the best player at the table).

BB folds.

I am UTG with and a stack of about $350

I make it $20

it folds to button he defends his straddle off a stack of about $500. He is playing every hand and somewhat competent but in an overly bluffy/laggy way. he can show up with any 2 cards any time but usually has the goods when a lot of money goes in

SB flats.

3 to a flop. Pot contains $62

flop

SB checks to me I bet $30 button calls SB folds.

pot $122

turn thats a bad card. I check Button bets $60. He bets in such a way that I feel like he bet SIMPLY because I checked. It almost looked like he was going to fold if I bet, then I checked and he bet.

I tank for a second trying to decide if I want to call or not because it's SUCH a bad card. But also this guy does NOT have to have anything. if I call this turn bet I'll need to call a lot of his river jams when blanks come. Am I prepared to do that? I finally decide yes, on safe rivers I'm going to have to take a read and call a lot.

so I cut out the chips to call, also aware that my hesitation is going to make him even MORE likely to bluff rivers.

pot $242 I have $240 back and he covers

river is which is extra bad so I decide to give up and check fold. He curses to himself and says "I can't pull the trigger you win"

I show my hand he mucks face down.

 

[Sorin Iliescu]

gl in your challenge! also, nice performance in the 2018 wsop; a lot of players dream of this and never happens to have their dream come true

 

[Figaroo2]

Nice read with the 99 on the turn. How are you getting on with that book?

 

[ATruRube]

..continued success in the next months fulfilling your challenge. It will be interesting to follow along on the journey. Florida event was fun.

 

[Jacki Burkhart]

Nice read with the 99 on the turn. How are you getting on with that book?

thanks for recommending the book! I have read about 30 pages. It's slow going with my FT job and other commitments I have a $400 fitness bet that is taking nearly all my spare time at the gym but you actually just reminded me I can read this while on the treadmill! so thanks

 

[ScooperNova]

That third barrel is often effective and hard to pull the trigger on at times. Luckily your opponent couldn't summon the gumption when you had the 9s, shew. Nh and good luck in your endeavor.

 

[Jacki Burkhart]

Played $1/2 last night and it didn't go well.

I didn't play very well I was distracted texting my friends too much and I don't know what other excuses I had but despite sucking out for a huge double and another double with a set that held, I still ended up losing $263 over 6.75 hours.

I seem to have begun this challege during my biggest downswing in a year, but that's ok. This is how poker goes sometimes and digging yourself out of a hole is something poker players have to be comfortable and confident doing.

Total for challege: -$522 over 15 hours

 

[Jacki Burkhart]

One hand that was near the end of the session. I think it's probably fine but one of my acquaintances was at the table and said I overplayed AK here.

so I've built my stack up to $575 and I'm actually possibly gonna turn a profit as I only have about 30 mins left before the poker room closes. This is not due to me playing well, but a couple lucky pots.

anyways.

EP raises to $15 off a stack of just over $200. He seems tight and straightforward.

MP flats off a stack of about $250. He is decent and plays reasonably wide ranges and not super talented but clearly a thinking player who I'm assuming regularly beats this game.

I have on the button and I 3bet to $60 off a stack of $575

blinds fold and both EP and MP call.

Pot $183

flop

they check to me I cbet $90

the EP player check raises all in for a total of $145. so only $55 more.

The MP player thinks for a minute and goes all in over the top for a total of $190.

Pot contains $608 and costs me $100 to call.

So I call.

I think it's the most standard thing ever but my acquaintance says because the first guy is tight and the 2nd guy knows that and goes all in, that I can fold becuase I only have 1 pair.

I think I'm never folding here given pot odds and stack sizes. If 2nd player has $500 back I can consider folding.

anyways I lose.

 

[Ahoy]

Good call I would C-bet bigger, their calling range there apart from twopair and better is mostly flushdraws and striaght draws so we want to charge those (Ax unlikely cuz we block that)

Easy call given the odds

 

[Kanetuck]

This is certainly the type of situation that I am struggling with right now. It is also the reason I am not ready for ring games yet. I am doing much better with tournaments at the moment. So, I am going to state some observations. I am no where near your level of play, so I would love to hear your thoughts on how to combine these ideas into a better game plan.
So first off, I have read that $1/$2 live plays like micro stakes online. Because of the tendency of many microstakes players to get their entire stack in with any connection to the board, it is my understanding that using pot control techniques with top pair top kicker is not as profitable as getting the stack in when it comes to micro stakes. However, if you are playing with better caliber players that are capable of making harder folds, that completely changes EV. Top pair top kicker suddenly finds itself only up against better hands. The issue I am having is not having enough information on the players to identify the better caliber players interspersed with the average microstakes player. I am hoping that the winnings will balance the losses until I am better able to identify the caliber of players, but I do not have enough data yet.
So, as to the specifics of this hand. EP opens with $15. At those stakes, that is a 7.5 bb open from a tight player correct? I watched you do some amazing folds on that televised game. I am not sure what kind of other reads you had on this table. But I have to question how much the combination of trying to win back your losses, only 30 minutes left to play, and the stress from being down for a long time, had to do with the decision making. When both players call that 3bet, I am sure some alarms went off for you. I am not trying to say you did anything wrong here. I really would have expected that second caller to fold to your 3bet. So just out of curiosity, what range did you put each of them on? That was a fairly wet flop. I am guessing that you are hoping EP has tens, Jack's, or queens. But what in the world did the next guy have? Pocket nines? Broadway connected suited? That last one seems like a stretch. I am guessing that you felt hitting the ace on the flop would give you top hand. So firing a continuation bet is understandable. But having a three-way pot at this point certainly doesn't help your odds. I would hope the flush draw isn't a big factor here. So I really don't think making them pay for a draw is necessary here. If you are not already beaten, probably not going to lose on the river. So I think what your friend was trying to say is you have very little fold equity here with your continuation bet. Real question is would you fold on the turn after checking if one of them goes all in. If the answer is no, doesn't really matter.

 

[Jacki Burkhart]

We’re back at it!

Very first hand I play I’m at table 11 minutes. Button straddle is on I raise to $15 w in SB

3 callers

Flop

I lead $30 into $63

CO jams for a total of $178

I obviously call, everyone else folds.

He has and binks the diamond on the river

It’s ok. $200 isn’t too much of a hole to dig out of