Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Super Tuesday and Going back to NC

I played the full day of tournaments yesterday without any real good results. I played a decent bit of 25/50 PLO and 40/80 7 game mix in between. The 7 game mix is my new favorite thing to do online. It combines HORSE with PLO and NLH. I am competent to good at all the games, so whatever edge I give up in some of the limit games I feel I can recoup in the PLO and NLH.
In the 1K on stars I doubled up at the beginning of the 2nd hour to have around 6K in chips when this hand went down. I was just moved to this table and the hand was against 2 guys I did not recognize. UTG raised to 505 (blinds 100/200 no ante). The SB called and I had the 32ss in the BB. Normally I would call every time in this spot, but the 1k is a very tough field and I lose equity trying to play this hand against great competition. But since I did not know who the other 2 were and they both had me covered I decided to go with it. The flop was Jd4d3h giving me bottom pair and not much more. To my suprise it checked around. This is a extremely tough flop to slow play if you are the original raiser. The SB could have been looking to C'raise, but I still felt my hand was good. My plan was to lead almost any turn if the SB checked to me. The turn was the 2h putting two flush draws out there and giving me bottom two pair. SB checked and I bet 900 into a pot of 1500, leaving me 4900 behind. The original raiser called, and I assumed he picked up a flush draw and a gutter straight draw, something like AQhh. The SB then pushed all in. The pot now had effectively 8900 in it and 4900 to call with a person behind. My initial read was to fold but I had a hard time putting the SB on a hand that would check that board twice. If he had a made hand he has to be sure someone will bet in order to protect his hand. I was thinking he had a very strong hand like J10hh, so I made the call. Another problem with the call is that I am giving UTG equity to go with his hand if he thinks he has 12 outs. He tanked forever and found a fold. The SB had AA meaning I had to fade a A,J and 4. I did and won a nice pot. I dont really like playing AA that way against good opponents. He put him self in a very tough spot out of position. After missing his opportunity to c'raise the flop he felt he didnt want to led with so many scare cards out there, but leading had to be right unless you are certain AA are still good. Anyway, I feel like im ramblin...I ended up with a huge stack then lost 2 massive coin flips back to back to allow me to squeak into the money and not much more.

I will going to Greensboro, NC tommorrow for a wedding. Jamborie and Brandon and two very good friends and will be looking foward to the weekend.

Justin "robert07" Young

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