Sat in seat 1 of a 4\/8 table today. Last week the best pocket pair I got was tens. This time I got pocket kings, queens, and aces, and raised pre-flop with each of them. <\/p>\n
Kings in MP2: MP1 raises, I 3-bet, BB calls, MP1 caps. Flop is Q-x-x. MP1 bets and I call all the way to the showdown. MP1 has rockets. -4.5BB<\/p>\n
Queens in CO: UTG+1 raises all-in .5 SB, I 3-bet, BB and UTG call. Flop is A-T-x. Checks to me, I bet, Button calls, UTG raises, I call, Button calls. Turn is a K. UTG bets, I fold, button folds. UTG wins the side pot with K7, UTG+1 wins the main pot with KT. -2.25BB<\/p>\n
Aces UTG: I raise, it’s folded to the blind, who also folds. Damn.<\/p>\n
I also missed out on a couple big bets when I didn’t bet the river with top pair high kicker. The calling stations had second\/low pair or a middle pocket pair, but I freaked out about getting check-raised. Bad, bad play. <\/p>\n
Then there were the hands where I had AJ, KJ, JT, AQ, and the flop missed me completely. Suck. <\/p>\n
On another hand I flopped bottom two pair in the blind, and my attempt to check-raise backfired when it got checked all the way around. The turn gave my opponent a flush draw and second-pair, high kicker, leading her to call my bet. The river paired the board, and she outkicked me. Oh well.<\/p>\n
All in all, I was down 10.875BB, most of which is a result of losing with kings and queens.<\/p>\n
SL played the 6\/12 tables and apparently got hit in the face with the deck. Lots of pocket pairs and suited cards made sets and flushes, leaving him up +10.3BB for the session. Nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sat in seat 1 of a 4\/8 table today. Last week the best pocket pair I got was tens. This time I got pocket kings, queens, and aces, and raised pre-flop with each of them. Kings in MP2: MP1 raises, I 3-bet, BB calls, MP1 caps. Flop is Q-x-x. MP1 bets and I call all […]<\/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_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-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psIKy-7F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","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=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}