{"id":422,"date":"2004-08-27T23:43:56","date_gmt":"2004-08-28T06:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/?p=422"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"just-one-good-hand-and-one-bad-player-can-make-your-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/27\/just-one-good-hand-and-one-bad-player-can-make-your-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Just one good hand and one bad player can make your session"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can see the attraction of big bet poker with training wheels:<\/p>\n

Party Poker Pot-Limit Hold’em, $0.50 BB (10 handed) converter<\/a><\/p>\n

saw flop<\/b>|saw showdown<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

UTG+2 ($87.83)
MP1 ($32.35)<\/b>
MP2 ($18.10)
MP3 ($39.50)<\/b>
CO ($29.75)<\/b>
Button ($86.50)<\/b>
SB ($32.35)<\/font><\/b>
Hero ($25.65)<\/font><\/b>
UTG ($23.25)
UTG+1 ($15.15)<\/p>\n

Preflop:<\/b> Hero is BB with Jc, Qc.
UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, UTG+2 folds, MP1 calls $0.50, MP2 folds, MP3 calls $0.50, CO calls $0.50, Button raises to $1<\/font>, SB calls $0.75, Hero calls $0.50, MP1 calls $0.50, MP3 calls $0.50, CO calls $0.50.<\/p>\n

Flop:<\/b> ($6) 9c, Ks, 2d (6 players)<\/font>
SB checks, Hero checks, MP1 checks, MP3 checks, CO checks, Button checks.<\/p>\n

Turn:<\/b> ($6) Td (6 players)<\/font>
SB bets $5.7<\/font>, Hero calls $5.70, MP1 folds, MP3 folds, CO folds, Button folds.<\/p>\n

River:<\/b> ($17.40) 6s (2 players)<\/font>
SB bets $5<\/font>, Hero raises to $12<\/font>, SB calls $7.<\/p>\n

Final Pot:<\/b> $41.40
Main Pot: $41.40, between SB and Hero.<\/font> > Pot won by Hero ($41.40).<\/p>\n

SB shows Ac Kh (one pair, kings).
Hero shows Jc Qc (straight, king high).
Outcome: Hero wins $41.40.<\/div>\n

My guess is that SB was hoping to check-raise some sorry bastard on the flop. Unfortunately things went awry. I was hoping to call-raise some sorry bastards on the turn, but I’m still satisfied with the way things turned out.<\/p>\n

Again, point #3 applies: Don’t go broke with top pair<\/a>. Now the question is whether my raise on the river was optimal for winning money. Would he have called me if I’d gone all-in? If I’d raised to $14? Is the potential payoff worth not holding back?<\/p>\n

HD<\/a> told me that he much prefers live play for the max buy-in NL games, since the PartyPookers tend to fold to any pre-flop raise and just wait for the nuts. But in the limited<\/em> experience I’ve had with PL, it seems that people are willing to risk more of their chips because the pot limit maximum bet\/raise makes them feel more secure. They’re wrong, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can see the attraction of big bet poker with training wheels: Party Poker Pot-Limit Hold’em, $0.50 BB (10 handed) converter saw flop|saw showdown UTG+2 ($87.83)MP1 ($32.35)MP2 ($18.10)MP3 ($39.50)CO ($29.75)Button ($86.50)SB ($32.35)Hero ($25.65)UTG ($23.25)UTG+1 ($15.15) Preflop: Hero is BB with Jc, Qc. UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, UTG+2 folds, MP1 calls $0.50, MP2 folds, MP3 calls […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psIKy-6O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}