{"id":1262,"date":"2006-03-16T09:34:37","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T16:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2006-03-16T09:34:37","modified_gmt":"2006-03-16T16:34:37","slug":"must-have-been-a-blogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/16\/must-have-been-a-blogger\/","title":{"rendered":"Must have been a blogger"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other night a player sat down and immediately started to play a lot of hands. Let’s call him VPIP79. This is one of several hands I played against him:<\/p>\n

Party Poker 5\/10 Hold’em (10 handed) converter<\/a><\/p>\n

Preflop:<\/b> Hero is MP1 with Jd, Js. CO posts a blind of $5.
\n1 fold<\/i><\/font>, UTG+1 (VPIP79)<\/font> calls, UTG+2 raises<\/font>, Hero 3-bets<\/font>, 6 folds<\/i><\/font>, UTG+1 (VPIP79)<\/font> calls, UTG+2 calls.<\/p>\n

Flop:<\/b> (11.40 SB) 7s, 9c, 2h (3 players)<\/font>
\nVPIP79 bets<\/font>, UTG+2 folds, Hero raises<\/font>, VPIP79 3-bets<\/font>, Hero calls.<\/p>\n

Turn:<\/b> (8.70 BB) 4s (2 players)<\/font>
\nVPIP79 bets<\/font>, Hero calls.<\/p>\n

River:<\/b> (10.70 BB) 9s (2 players)<\/font>
\nVPIP79 bets<\/font>, Hero calls.<\/p>\n

Final Pot:<\/b> 12.70 BB<\/p>\n

VPIP79 has 7h 2d (two pair, nines and sevens).
\nHero has Jd Js (two pair, jacks and nines).
\nOutcome: Hero wins 12.70 BB.\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Call me a lemur, but it’s hard to fold an overpair while heads up against a loose player, especially when the pot’s that big. Of course, when the top card paired on the river, I figured I was dead, but I’d see what he had. It never even occurred to me that he had bottom two pair on the flop. I mean, who the hell plays seven-deuce offsuit?!<\/p>\n

Then again, maybe he was bored.<\/p>\n

When I’m bored, I prefer raising, and I prefer connectors:<\/p>\n

Party Poker 5\/10 Hold’em (10 handed) converter<\/a><\/p>\n

Preflop:<\/b> Hero is UTG with 7s, 6s.
\nHero raises<\/font>, 7 folds<\/i><\/font>, SB (VPIP55)<\/font> calls, BB (VPIP25)<\/font> calls.<\/p>\n

Flop:<\/b> (6 SB) Jh, 5s, 8d (3 players)<\/font>
\nVPIP55 checks, VPIP25 bets<\/font>, Hero raises<\/font>, VPIP55 calls, VPIP25 calls.<\/p>\n

Turn:<\/b> (6 BB) 4h (3 players)<\/font>
\nVPIP55 checks, VPIP25 checks, Hero bets<\/font>, VPIP55 calls, VPIP25 calls.<\/p>\n

River:<\/b> (9 BB) 2d (3 players)<\/font>
\nVPIP55 checks, VPIP25 checks, Hero bets<\/font>, VPIP55 calls, VPIP25 calls.<\/p>\n

Final Pot:<\/b> 12 BB<\/p>\n

VPIP55 has 4s As (one pair, fours).
\nVPIP25 has Jd Qh (one pair, jacks).
\nHero has 7s 6s (straight, eight high).
\nOutcome: Hero wins 12 BB.\n<\/p><\/div>\n

The flop raise was definitely an attempt to see the turn and river for the price of 1SB. But all the pieces fell into place and I got my straight. The SB remarked that he didn’t put me on that hand at all. <\/p>\n

I guess that hand made an impression, since someone cold-called a later raise with A2o. The SB from the hand above saved me some money by 3-betting with his flopped boat (he had T7s in EP) after A2o raised. I mucked and the two players went to war. A2o busted and left the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other night a player sat down and immediately started to play a lot of hands. Let’s call him VPIP79. This is one of several hands I played against him: Party Poker 5\/10 Hold’em (10 handed) converter Preflop: Hero is MP1 with Jd, Js. CO posts a blind of $5. 1 fold, UTG+1 (VPIP79) calls, […]<\/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-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psIKy-km","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","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=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}