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July 17, 2004
Lucky, not good
After coming in ninth ($2.50) in this morning's MultiPoker freeroll, I fired up a 1/2 table and played until the afternoon turbo freeroll. Man, I got killed on some hands in a big way. This table was a bit more loose-aggressive than the normal 1/2 tables, and that magnified my losses. After busting out of the afternoon freeroll with pocket jacks (the caller had 9To and flopped a set), I went looking for a second table to try to average out the wins and losses.
I found the best table in the world.
I won 11 of the 94 hands I played, and split a few more. I won 4 of the 10 biggest pots, including the largest one of all:
Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with Qc, Qh.
UTG calls, Hero raises, MP1 calls, MP2 folds, MP3 folds, CO calls, Button folds, SB calls, BB calls, UTG calls.
Flop: (12 SB) 2s, Qs, 4h (6 players)
SB bets, BB folds, UTG folds, Hero raises, MP1 calls, CO folds, SB 3-bets, Hero caps, MP1 calls, SB calls.
Turn: (12 BB) Th (3 players)
SB bets, Hero raises, MP1 3-bets, SB caps, Hero calls, MP1 calls.
River: (24 BB) Ah (3 players)
SB checks, Hero bets, MP1 calls, SB calls.
Final Pot: 27 BB
Main Pot: 27 BB, between MP1, SB and Hero. > Pot won by Hero (27 BB).
Hero shows Qc Qh (three of a kind, queens).
MP1 shows Ts Qd (two pair, queens and tens).
SB shows 2d 4d (two pair, fours and twos).
Outcome: Hero wins 27 BB.
I ended the day up $66.75, for a win rate of 14.77BB/100 hands.
I still don't know anything about table selection, but I suspect avoiding having multiple loose-aggressives at my table will probably help my win rate quite a bit.
Posted by glyphic at July 17, 2004 05:19 PM