{"id":1003,"date":"2004-12-03T12:54:42","date_gmt":"2004-12-03T19:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2004-12-03T12:54:42","modified_gmt":"2004-12-03T19:54:42","slug":"way-ahead-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/03\/way-ahead-or\/","title":{"rendered":"Way ahead or…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spent about six hours on Wednesday playing on Paradise with some sad results: -35BB. Brutal. And it wasn’t my starting hands, either. I was getting some pretty good cards:<\/p>\n

AA, 3x, 100% win, +2\/hand
\nKK, 3x, 33% win, -1.38\/hand
\nQQ, 2x, 0% win, -4.25\/hand
\nJJ, 4x, 25% win, -1.19\/hand<\/p>\n

TT, 1x, 0% win, -10.75\/hand
\nAQs, 1x, 100% win, +3.13\/hand
\nAJs, 2x, 0% win, -.75\/hand
\nKQs, 2x, 50% win, -.25\/hand
\nAK, 8x, 25% win, -2.27\/hand<\/p>\n

QJs, 2x, 0% win, -.75\/hand
\nATs, 2x, 100% win, +5.13\/hand
\nAQ, 3x, 33% win, -.75\/hand<\/p>\n

Roughly organized according to the Sklansky hands listed in A New Guide to the Starting Hands in Texas Hold’em Poker<\/a>.<\/i>
\n
\nThere are some other hands like AJ that I haven’t included, but overall, I was getting great cards more than 10% of the time, which would seem to indicate that I was getting my share, or more than my share of good cards.<\/p>\n

And of course, in my 26,000 hands or so, I see AA winning 80% of the time, KK winning 75%, etc., etc. These are group one and group two hands for a good reason. But tell that to the guy who called the raise with 57 on the button and flopped the open-ended straight draw. Tell it to him again when he calls 2 bets cold with J4s in the CO and then calls 2 more bets cold with a gutshot staright draw. Yep, he got them both on the river.<\/p>\n

Oh yeah, about that -10.75\/hand. What? You missed it? Go ahead, scroll back up. Okay, so here’s how it went down:<\/p>\n

Paradise Poker 1\/2 Hold’em (4 handed) converter<\/a><\/p>\n

Preflop:<\/b> Hero is UTG with Th, Td.
\nHero raises<\/font>, 1 fold<\/i><\/font>, SB calls, BB calls.<\/p>\n

Flop:<\/b> (6 SB) Ts, 9d, 5s (3 players)<\/font>
\nSB bets<\/font>, BB raises<\/font>, Hero 3-bets<\/font>, SB caps<\/font>, BB calls, Hero calls.<\/p>\n

Turn:<\/b> (9 BB) Jd (3 players)<\/font>
\nSB checks, BB bets<\/font>, Hero raises<\/font>, SB folds, BB 3-bets<\/font>, Hero caps<\/font>, BB calls.<\/p>\n

River:<\/b> (17 BB) 9s (2 players)<\/font>
\nBB bets<\/font>, Hero raises<\/font>, BB 3-bets<\/font>, Hero caps<\/font>, BB calls.<\/p>\n

Final Pot:<\/b> 24.75 BB
\nMain Pot: 24.75 BB, between BB and Hero.<\/font>\n<\/div>\n

Oh, the tension. I’ve never been in a game where we’ve capped every street post-flop.<\/p>\n

Pot won by BB (24.75 BB).<\/p>\n

BB has Js Jh (full house, jacks full of nines).
\nHero has Th Td (full house, tens full of nines).
\nOutcome: BB wins 24.75 BB.\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Ouch, ouch, ouch. No bad beats or anything screwy like that. BB put me on the straight or flush draw, I put BB on the straight draw or possibly the made straight (of course, by this point, we’d capped the turn), and he had me. He had me good. I cried like a little girl, my tears streaking down my grubby face and soaking the tip of my cigarette. <\/p>\n

Nah, that didn’t really happen. The crying bit, I mean. There was some cursing and shouting, but only at the poker gods.<\/p>\n

So down another 35BB. I’m getting good at this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spent about six hours on Wednesday playing on Paradise with some sad results: -35BB. Brutal. And it wasn’t my starting hands, either. I was getting some pretty good cards: AA, 3x, 100% win, +2\/hand KK, 3x, 33% win, -1.38\/hand QQ, 2x, 0% win, -4.25\/hand JJ, 4x, 25% win, -1.19\/hand TT, 1x, 0% win, -10.75\/hand AQs, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psIKy-gb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}