Fun heads up hand.

[frob23]

I was playing $10NL today and ended up heads up against this guy.

He'd been massively over-playing a lot of rivers but I hadn't had enough to call most of the time. Then this hand happened.

Hero: $9.63
Villain: $11.78

Hero is dealt: 4 7

Yep, an absolute garbage hand. But the villain isn't an aggressive pre-flop player so I might see a flop for cheap.

Villain posts $0.05, Hero posts $0.10, Villain calls $0.05, Hero checks.

Yay, an absolute nothing of a pre-flop.

FLOP: A 2 8 (Pot: $0.20)

Check-Check

A nothing flop for my hand. I'm check folding had he bet.

TURN: A 2 8 6 (Pot: $0.20)

Check-Check

The turn doesn't do much for me either. But he checks, so I check too.

RIVER: A 2 8 6 5 (Pot: $0.20)

Villain bets $0.50, Hero raises to $2.50, Villain raises to $4.00, Hero moves all-in for $9.53, Villain calls.

Villain shows: A 2 (Aces up)
Hero shows: 4 7 (8-high straight)


LMAO... talk about giving it away. And not only giving away a small pot... but losing your stack by letting someone take the lead for free. He made so many mistakes in this hand. Granted, I was a little worried about 7-9 at the end there but this player had a habit for massively over-playing 1 and 2 pair hands on the end with bets like that.

He fires 50c into a 20c pot... and manages to lose most of this stack by not recognizing that he's been beat. It might help to point out that I had never raised on the end. In the entire time we played heads up, I'd never done it. I always called or folded. So here he sees a big raise. I couldn't fault him for flat calling (I actually expected only a call which is why I made it big enough that I would be happy with just the raise)... but reraising and then calling a shove is just foolish.

I was just really happy here. I was planning on losing $0.10 and stead I managed to almost double up because he misplayed every street.

[travz21]

I love hands like that. You get the jambo card on the river and they overplay and give you their chips. Kinda like I gave you my chips with J9 vs. your JJ in the freeroll today. Good to know you're staying hot. Stay hot!

[frob23]

I love hands like that. You get the jambo card on the river and they overplay and give you their chips. Kinda like I gave you my chips with J9 vs. your JJ in the freeroll today. Good to know you're staying hot. Stay hot!

lol... that was unfortunate on your part. With the blinds as high as they were, and as much as I was raising, you were perfectly justified in shoving J9 there. You just got unlucky that I woke up with JJ. It wasn't a bad play at all. What else can you do when you're sitting on 5-6xBB total? You've got to make a move and hope I go away or you get lucky and double up.

EDIT: Actually, here's my official opinion on that hand.

After posting the SB, you had less than 9.5 small blinds left. (4.75xBB)

With J9o, you can shove unexploitably as many as 17.8 small blinds. (8.9xBB) That means, with only the big blind, I won't have a strong enough hand often enough to call profitably. There is no way I can profit, long term, when you shove there. There's absolutely no reason you should ever not shove there. You're going to make a profit from it long term. You just got unlucky.

You made the right play. Nothing to feel bad about.

[travz21]

I don't feel bad haha. Pushing every hand is pretty much the right play when the blinds are that big. I've been invited to other PTOTW's before, I think, and just haven't played them since I was too lazy to download poker rooms I didn't have accounts for and I'd rather make more playing cash games. But this time I felt like playing with some of my fellow Rakeback mates haha. It was pretty refreshing to be playing in a new room and playing against solid players in a freeroll, for once. I have to say, overall, that the play there is better than most sngs I've played in. It would be nice if the blinds stayed at 50/100 for like 15 minutes though before it started moving up. From then on out the luck overtakes the skill.

Poker Nordica had me struggling with the gameplay for awhile though haha. What was up towards the end when it would show the community cards even though everyone folded? I was really confused. Plus, I thought I was out when I pushed with 52o and Gamer folded/showed 66 instantly when I thought he called haha.

[frob23]

What was up towards the end when it would show the community cards even though everyone folded? I was really confused. Plus, I thought I was out when I pushed with 52o and Gamer folded/showed 66 instantly when I thought he called haha.

The thing with showing all the community card is the "Rabbit Hunt" function. It's something the last active player in a hand that is folded has the option to do (if they turn off automuck). You can also choose to just show the hand (like Gamer) and/or just show one card from your hand instead of both. I did it a couple times... when the blinds were high. I was just having a little fun. I don't know if anyone else was playing with it though.

There's a bunch of fun things like that on PN. I especially love the Rabbit Hunt though because lots of inexperienced and low limit players love to use it... and you get to see their hands and it lets you clarify their ranges much faster.

[travz21]

Interesting. Those are pretty cool functions, I just had no idea what was going on since I just downloaded Nordica. I wouldn't mind playing there full time if I somehow ran my free $25 up to like 5k haha.