disgustipated

The hand above is an instafold right? Or is it reasonable to think villian is trying to create fold equity on a semi bluff flush draw?

So my seventh session, as I said was a bit of a doozy. One of the last hands I was in. It’s 4:30 A.M and the table is short. You’re twelve hours into your sit and stuck several hundred dollars. You were in a previous hand with Villain who flopped broadway on you. Despite sniffing it out, you still paid off his $25 value bet on the river after runner runner made 4 to the flush that missed you. Now you have AdQc in the cutoff with $300 in your stack. You raise to $13 and villain and two other callers. Villain is $800 deep. Flop Ac, 9s, 3s. Checks around to you. You bet $30, villain min raises to $60. Fold around to you and you call. Turn is 3d. Villain jams all in. Action on you.

Met some guys that drove up from Austin to Winstar in my last session (a doozy of a session i'll follow up on in a separate post). Apparently they jumped into the car after he finished dealing his shift arriving at four in the mourning. They were bragging about the Austin poker scene. He said he and his other buddy "the Goat" (who was sleeping in the car) were gonna "crush" the River (Winstar's Big Annual Poker tourney on labor day weekend). They had already earned 5 "Lanis" for the mega satellite in previous visits.

Point taken, I was a little sloppy there. Meant to say he 3x raised my flop bet.

I understand your point on pot bet, its a older less popular line of play these days from when I started playing. I hate giving odds on draws especially knowing he is playing a wide range to get unstuck. If he smooths I probably still lead turn but not as hard, like 1/2 to 3/5 pot. That said even on a smooth, the worst he could have would be a pair with a gutter and/or some back door flush draw. In any case, I pretty much pegged him as really not capable of making a move. Are you still tracking your sessions? How long are your sits? All mine thus far have also been on a new table. I try and get up 3 to 5 times in a session to reset myself. Games have been pretty soft thus far. Much easier than the 1,2,5 game I was playing at a local room. I'm still building the bank roll and might considering moving up once I get to 10. Im in no hurry.

Six sessions into my return to weekend rounding (5 sits @ 1/3 Winstar and 1 sit @ 2/5 Choctaw during recent WPT event). One notable hand in a recent session, I literally made a lady who had just sat down stand up and leave our table. Kicker is she wasn’t even involved the hand. It was towards the end of the session; I got KK in MP and made the table standard 5x raised to $15. Fold to the Button who flatted. Im 2.5x villain’s stack, who after several rebuys is finally starting to gain momentum, but seeing a ton of flops. Heads up to the flop 5,7,9 no flush. I make a pot bet with intent to take down and move to the next hand, only to have him three bet me. Took a couple minutes to think through, and just didn’t think he was capable of making a play. But set or straight didn’t make sense to me either, as why raise in position with such strength. In any case it was enough info for me to fold. I tabled my hand up to show I was laying down KK. Villain flips over 5,7o. That is when the lady left. Anyhow, here are results and observations thus far. I would appreciate ya’lls feedback. Booked wins in all sessions with an avg. hourly rate of around $41. Playing pretty disciplined TAG. Not trying to be table captain, but taking advantage of spots to take pots, especially late in sessions when my image is established and people start to fear having me in their pots. As illustrated above, I feel like I am reading tables really well, but admit and give credit to the fact I have been fortunate in table assignments. Limiting my sits to 8 – 10 hrs, but notice that I am ending the sessions below peak. All Winstar sessions were Saturday nights, the Choctaw was a friday.

has anyone played craps a winstar or Choctaw now that they are using dice and not cards?

I've recently started back myself and so much depends on your assessment of the players in the hand. I appreciate the quest for a line that yields actualizes highest EV, but also know there is nothing wrong with taking a pot down. It all depends on how far along you are into a session and the image you have built up to that hand. I prefer Txsooner's line of smoothing there, especially if you think the guy behind you is calling. I think preflop raiser had at best JJ(doubtful) but more likely was just C betting KQ, KJ OTF since he folded to your turn bet or flush or back door flush draw.

MARGA