Thursday, February 12, 2009

Squeezed

This was the weirdest and toughest hand I've played in a while. A few things to consider:

USCPhildo is one of the better tournament players, but not known as a cash player. I'd never seen him play cash before, and his presence was one of the reasons I decided to sit at an otherwise tough table. Generally speaking, the tournament players are known for overplaying hands. He was very active throughout the session and involved in lots of big pots.

Checkmate is a strong regular with a strong regular style.
RolandThetrault is one of the best players I have ever seen at 10-20.

Throughout this session I had not reraised a single time preflop. The hand before I had shown down a smoothcalled AK after winning a big pot vs Phildo's KQ on KT33x.

Full Tilt Poker Game #10561733407: Table Suzy (deep 6) - $10/$20 - No Limit Hold'em - 1:27:39 ET - 2009/02/11
Seat 1: Checkmate824 ($9,091)
Seat 2: klickitat ($1,980)
Seat 3: USCphildo ($3,877)
Seat 4: RolandThetrault ($3,247)
Seat 5: GnightMoon ($6,711)
Seat 6: Cutie Pie12 ($2,945)
klickitat posts the small blind of $10
USCphildo posts the big blind of $20
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to GnightMoon [Qh Qd]
RolandThetrault raises to $70
GnightMoon calls $70
USCphildo: nh
Cutie Pie12 has 15 seconds left to act
Cutie Pie12 folds
GnightMoon: ty
Checkmate824 raises to $310
klickitat folds
USCphildo has 15 seconds left to act
Checkmate824: shove
USCphildo calls $290
RolandThetrault has 15 seconds left to act
RolandThetrault calls $240
GnightMoon has 15 seconds left to act
GnightMoon has requested TIME
GnightMoon calls $240
*** FLOP *** [3d 2c 3h]
USCphildo has 15 seconds left to act
USCphildo checks
RolandThetrault has 15 seconds left to act
RolandThetrault checks
GnightMoon checks
Checkmate824 has 15 seconds left to act
Checkmate824 bets $840
USCphildo has 15 seconds left to act
USCphildo raises to $3,567, and is all in
RolandThetrault folds
GnightMoon has 15 seconds left to act
GnightMoon has requested TIME
GnightMoon folds
Checkmate824 folds
Uncalled bet of $2,727 returned to USCphildo
USCphildo mucks
USCphildo wins the pot ($2,927)
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $2,930 | Rake $3
Board: [3d 2c 3h]
Seat 1: Checkmate824 (button) folded on the Flop
Seat 2: klickitat (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 3: USCphildo (big blind) collected ($2,927), mucked
Seat 4: RolandThetrault folded on the Flop
Seat 5: GnightMoon folded on the Flop
Seat 6: Cutie Pie12 didn't bet (folded)

7 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Nit

12:18 PM  
Blogger . said...

cool hand
452298437509BB poker confuses me

12:42 PM  
Blogger TheGraveWolf said...

Interesting hand, although I think you left your readers hanging.

Descriptions of the players before posting the hand was great.

How about a little post hand analysis?

What do you think they had?

Did you have any thoughts on one of the "weirdest and toughest" hands you've played in awhile?

3:13 PM  
Blogger GnightMoon said...

Checkmate folded instantly, he obviously had no pair, anything from 74s to AKs. Phildo had a pair but the question is what pair. KK and JJ seem most likely, the way he was playing I could see it being TT or 99 though. If he had AK I give him credit for playing it really well. I think I may have folded the best hand but I dunno if I made a mistake on any street.

11:31 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I hope you dont mind Thomas, but I posted the hand on 2+2.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/19/high-stakes-pl-nl/hand-thomas-fullers-blog-411987/

Dickie D

3:48 AM  
Blogger Bored in St. George said...

phildo obv had JJ here and you suck at poker - lol

7:52 PM  
Blogger Bored in St. George said...

i dont get the flat preflop either really unless you were trying to disguise your hand- ?

7:53 PM  

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