hand review

i've been running really hot recently, but i just played a session the other day where i felt like i was tilting towards the end. i did quit, but i just wanted to review the hands from it to make sure i'm happy with my play and to see if the tilt effected me before i noticed it. there's only like 1k hands so there shouldn't be too many to talk about, here we go. btw, i'm reviewing the hands in order that way i can see if i did start to tilt at a certain point.

24o - i still really like how i played this hand. i think the flop raise is super standard because he is still calling with any decent J or any kind of draw. on the turn i think i still need to keep betting to get value out of the FD and i think i'm still getting called by like JQ type hands. on the river, i almost checked it, but i just couldn't see anything in his range that had me beat. another 2 pair hand didn't make sense in his UTG range on that board, and sets or slow-played over pairs would have gave some action at this point. pretty lame that he limps 56s UTG and then got runner runner 2 pair.

AQo - ok, this hand is spew. jesus this is dumb. pre is standard, i don't like 3betting with AQo v a standard TAG's UTG range. at 100NL i'm not worried about getting squeezed by many people. on the flop, i bet because so many regs just see flops like this and just tell themselves "my cbet won't get any credit, he'll just bluff raise or float me" and they go into c/f mode. when a semi-thinking reg c/c on this board and then decides to lead though it's generally some sort of strength and the bluff raise on the turn was just silly imo.

KQs - this hand was super standard. villain was a complete spaz and i think shoving if i got ANY piece of the flop is +EV against him. obviously when he shows down a 3bet K2s from the SB and the b/c AI on the AKQ flop my point is proven.

QTs - i remember this hand pissing me off a bit. on the flop i took a while debating whether to semi-bluff or just call and see how the hand progresses. i decided on calling because our stack depth was deep enough to where he could have been planning a bet/3bet and forced me to fold (or even if he 3bet small enough to give me odds to draw i wouldn't be thrilled getting this much in that quickly). obviously the turn is gin, i took a bit deciding on my bet sizing and he basically snap called which screamed set to me. i said something like "you have to be fucking kidding" when the river hit, and then something about the same when he donked it. if he had made a reasonable bet i think i would have had a pretty easy fold here, but getting 5:1 i would be an idiot to fold. after seeing his hand i was pretty amazed because i had thought this player was decent before this hand but he played it pretty horribly.

K4o - the hand literally right before this i had caused villain to make a big fold and he asked me in chat what i had and i told him 27. this little chat is what made me decide to just call the raise on the flop. i thought a lot of his range here was air bluffs and he was still all annoyed and would barrel off the turn as well. he did, but obviously the money was getting in one way or another anyhoo. don't slow-play them aces boys.

KK - standard, titled me a bit though.

JTs - and here's what i was looking for, this hand is tilt related from the KK hand before. pre is marginal at best, i can easily muck this. the flop i don't hate, A hi boards are generally good to c/r bluff on. the thing is, when i get called on this i really shouldn't be barreling off on the off-suit 9. also, when i do decide to barrel off the turn i think that kind of commits me to 3 barrel bluffing the river. i think all set/2 pair combos pop me on the turn because the 9 just puts even more draws out there that you need to protect against. i think the only real hand i'm getting called by is AK on the river, and i think he probably even raises AK on the turn (or 3bets the flop) so i think i will be taking this pot down quite often with a 3 barrel. so i should have either given up after he called the flop c/r or committed to barreling off the river when the board runs that well.

KJo - another super standard hand. villain was a huge station (as you can see by what he shows down) so to not be potting it after he calls the flop would just be stupid. it's nice to get paid off this easily.

KK - tilllllt. same retarded villain as the hand above. because he was sitting on a half stack i decided to just flat the 3bet and jam any flop instead of 4betting. obv he hit a 3 outer because he's really good at this game.

AQo - idk what i think about this hand. pre is standard, flop is standard. i think i remember having a read that this player was just stupid and bluffy so turn is fine. i decided to donk pot on the river because i didn't think he was ever bluffing in this spot and the only hand he VB's is a split, so i might as well try to look bluffy and hope he does something stupid. it's nice when shit works out the way you want it.

JJ - watch me lose a race ... this villain was super aggro pre so this is standard imo.

JJ - better result than last time. i don't remember why i chose to flat from the SB here, he must have been pretty tight. i still don't really like doing this, but i'm sure i had my reasons. flatting JJ in the sb is certainly not tilt related at least. the rest of the hand is pretty standard, i love my turn bet sizing and his river fold made me laugh pretty hard.

KTo - i actually i'm quite fond of this hand as well. villain was pretty aggro and i had seen him flat 3bets and raise them enough that he had to be doing it light at times. i remember making up my mind that i was just going to go with a top pair type hand against this guy, and that's exactly what i did. something i want to mix into my game is 3bet shoving as a bluff against the right players, because there are some people that will literally bluff every OOP cbet and it is insanely profitable to just shove on them with a huge range.

77 - ughhh, this hand is pretty close. i should go stove it but i'm lazy so i'll just leave it at that. i do know that this player was an aggro reg and def could be raising a wider range because he knows i'm doing an iso raise, but whether he goes ahead and cbets air/AK AQ AJ KQ on this board is questionable. if i knew he would go ahead and cbet all those types of hands that he 3bet me with then i like this, but i just am not sure he does that and without those hands in his range this play is pretty weak. and yes i do know my hand is a bluff at this point.

KK - god this hand sucks today. villain was a huge station and was calling down so light here that i just stuck it in. i don't even think i played it poorly, although the river has to be close seeing as the A hit on the turn AND the FD got there, but it's close. this tilted the shit out of me and is when i decided to end the session.

so that's the session, my net was -210. i didn't do anything overly stupid this session, although there were a few spots i could clean up. this makes me feel better about my game though, i remember worrying that i was tilting to much during this session and also thinking that i was just running hot before and this is how i should normally run. not true though, i'm godlike and should win lots and lots of money. not quite, but i can dream.

-geoff