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A bad fold

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A momentary lapse of clear thinking…

Party Poker 3/6 Hold’em (9 handed) converter

Preflop: Hero is UTG with 2d, Ad. CO posts a blind of $3.
Hero calls, 1 fold, MP1 calls, MP2 calls, 1 fold, CO (poster) checks, 1 fold, SB (Good Player) completes, BB checks.

Flop: (6 SB) 9d, 4d, Js (6 players)
Good Player bets, BB folds, Hero calls, MP1 calls, MP2 calls, CO calls.

Turn: (5.50 BB) 7h (5 players)
Good Player bets, Hero calls, MP1 raises, MP2 folds, CO folds, Good Player 3-bets…

…made me fold. How embarassing.

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When all the draws come in…

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…you better fold.

Party Poker 2/4 Hold’em (10 handed) converter

Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with 2h, 2c.
1 fold, Hero calls, UTG+2 calls, MP1 calls, 2 folds, CO raises, 1 fold, SB calls $5 (All-In), 1 fold, Hero calls, UTG+2 calls, MP1 calls, CO calls.

Flop: (16 SB) Ac, Td, 2s (5 players, 1 all-in)
Hero checks, UTG+2 checks, MP1 checks, CO checks.

Turn: (8 BB) 3s (5 players, 1 all-in)
Hero bets, UTG+2 calls, MP1 calls, CO folds.

River: (11 BB) 4s (4 players, 1 all-in)
Hero checks, UTG+2 bets, MP1 raises, Hero folds, UTG+2 calls $7.50 (All-In), MP1 calls.

Final Pot: 16.75 BB

SB has Ah 7h (one pair, aces).
UTG+2 has 5d 8h (straight, five high).
MP1 has 4h As (two pair, aces and fours).
Outcome: UTG+2 wins 16.75 BB.

When something like this happens you wonder if there’s anything you could have done, short of magically transforming it into a big bet game–then again, I fully expected to see MP1 to show down something better than 2 pair.

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Adelphia blows big hairy monkey chunks

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This is me winning a huge pot, giving me nearly a 2:1 chip advantage against a loose overplayer while heads-up in a 5-table SNG at Full Tilt.

This is also me before Adelphia completely crapped out, leaving me in second place for my troubles.

I’ve had a lot of issues with Adelphia, but I’ve been hesitant to get locked into a year long agreement with a DSL provider or pay the $100 startup cost for a month-to-month plan. But as smarter people around me have pointed out, I lost that much tonight just by not having a reliable internet connection.

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Must have been a blogger

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The other night a player sat down and immediately started to play a lot of hands. Let’s call him VPIP79. This is one of several hands I played against him:

Party Poker 5/10 Hold’em (10 handed) converter

Preflop: Hero is MP1 with Jd, Js. CO posts a blind of $5.
1 fold, UTG+1 (VPIP79) calls, UTG+2 raises, Hero 3-bets, 6 folds, UTG+1 (VPIP79) calls, UTG+2 calls.

Flop: (11.40 SB) 7s, 9c, 2h (3 players)
VPIP79 bets, UTG+2 folds, Hero raises, VPIP79 3-bets, Hero calls.

Turn: (8.70 BB) 4s (2 players)
VPIP79 bets, Hero calls.

River: (10.70 BB) 9s (2 players)
VPIP79 bets, Hero calls.

Final Pot: 12.70 BB

VPIP79 has 7h 2d (two pair, nines and sevens).
Hero has Jd Js (two pair, jacks and nines).
Outcome: Hero wins 12.70 BB.

Call me a lemur, but it’s hard to fold an overpair while heads up against a loose player, especially when the pot’s that big. Of course, when the top card paired on the river, I figured I was dead, but I’d see what he had. It never even occurred to me that he had bottom two pair on the flop. I mean, who the hell plays seven-deuce offsuit?!

Then again, maybe he was bored.

When I’m bored, I prefer raising, and I prefer connectors:

Party Poker 5/10 Hold’em (10 handed) converter

Preflop: Hero is UTG with 7s, 6s.
Hero raises, 7 folds, SB (VPIP55) calls, BB (VPIP25) calls.

Flop: (6 SB) Jh, 5s, 8d (3 players)
VPIP55 checks, VPIP25 bets, Hero raises, VPIP55 calls, VPIP25 calls.

Turn: (6 BB) 4h (3 players)
VPIP55 checks, VPIP25 checks, Hero bets, VPIP55 calls, VPIP25 calls.

River: (9 BB) 2d (3 players)
VPIP55 checks, VPIP25 checks, Hero bets, VPIP55 calls, VPIP25 calls.

Final Pot: 12 BB

VPIP55 has 4s As (one pair, fours).
VPIP25 has Jd Qh (one pair, jacks).
Hero has 7s 6s (straight, eight high).
Outcome: Hero wins 12 BB.

The flop raise was definitely an attempt to see the turn and river for the price of 1SB. But all the pieces fell into place and I got my straight. The SB remarked that he didn’t put me on that hand at all.

I guess that hand made an impression, since someone cold-called a later raise with A2o. The SB from the hand above saved me some money by 3-betting with his flopped boat (he had T7s in EP) after A2o raised. I mucked and the two players went to war. A2o busted and left the table.