I hate to 3 bet light in the blinds on a table where most of the players don't like to fold too much pre. I am more than happy to give up the blinds and not put myself in a position to play awkward hands Oop. The early stages of the deepstack for me really are about making hands getting paid.
I thought the flop looked quite safe for me to bet as I thought I could still have the best hand most of the time and the range of hands I 3 bet which you pretty much assign to me will be ahead. The way you looked comfortable calling the bet immediately signalled that you liked your hand and that's what made me check the turn.
On the river I was folding as soon as you grabbed some chips. You never noticed me fold so I took back the cards and this was when I turned them face up and pushed them back to the deal. I hate showing but it got a smile from the dealer while you were counting out your bet.
Check jam the flop I fold most of the time. Unless I pick something up. Quite easy to pick off when someone is doing it with a flush draw usually but I did not get that from you when you checked the flop. Lots of hands that you could call my 3 bet actually beat me there.
I don't mind your play at all and I was tilted my patience was not rewarded and you had won the pot. I am never flatting Jacks or not C betting with the hands I am repping having sat so long.
The hand with Ade were he opens utg was just cock measuring with Ade for bants. He was unusually quiet although I had heard him half way across the room earlier in the day before he got moved to our table. I expected him to fold quite quickly and when he did not i knew he was thinking of calling. That's when I told him I had only seen 1 card and it was a King and had not noticed he had raised. I actually had jammed the button with
( its one of the kids initials ).
I was fortunate that the kid in seat 8 rattled Ade by laughing at the chat. When Ade has a go at someone who is not in the hand and starts wanting to call the floor he always folds. That's when I was comfortable and gave him a bit more. I think I may have said something like if I turn over the other one and its an ace then apologies for the angle shoot?
Did you notice that they broke our table pretty much straight after this. They usually bust up Ade's table when he gets too much & he had no right to go at the young lad as the craic on our table had been great upto that point
Infact the last time I was on Ade's table I think Caroline Cove threatened to lay him out and they split our table that time too.
Just a thought, are you calling that hand with a view to making me fold or you think you have implied odds if you hit?
On the hand were you flop 2 pair would you have paid Raaf on the river had the turn not paired the king?
You played the best poker on our able along with the kid to your right who Ade had a go at. It was nice to watch you and Dan bumping without me being in the pots
I did notice they broke our table quite quickly, which I was a bit gutted about, because I thought it was a great table, with lots of nice spots and a good craic all round. The guy to my right was decent, but I had a pretty solid read on him, and obviously position.
In this hand with you, being very honest, but not wishing to sound arrogant, I was pretty confident that I could make quite easy decisions, even OOP.
If the flop comes low-middle I either make the best hand or pick up a good draw and I am going with it.
Middl-ish, like it did, I should have a biggish draw and I can try and get to the river cheap to make my hand, and should have an opportunity to bluff and win the pot at some point.
Almost any Ace, I am almost certainly repping it on at least one street.
Naturally, if I completely whoosh the flop, ie. AKQ no clubs, Q99, K32 etc then I will let you c-bet and have it, I'm not a lunatic
Do I think I have implied odds? Well no, not really, you're not giving them away. I probably need a miracle flop like
for you to get it in, but I know you're def c-betting and I will def give myself a chance to win a decent sized pot at some point in the hand.
In the hand with Raaf where I have
and flop is
, I would happily get them in on the flop obv.
The turn is weird as it really falls the
and this smashes his range (which I actually thought was likely to be KQ, QQ, JJ TT, maybe AK, though I expect him to jam this when I check raise the flop). I obv made a massive mistake betting here when I was sure I was now behind in the hand. You are saying if it doesn't pair the King. Well, it now needs to be an 8 or below really, and I would naturally make the same bet, but this time it would be a good bet, and he would still be a douche for calling a pot sized bet on the turn leaving himself half pot back with the
.
Yes I am paying him off on the 
river, cos I never put him on the flush draw. Did you? He has opened UTG and bet/called the flop. Post flop the pot was 20k and I bet 16k when he had 33k total, and he flats with A7 high?
should really be the very very very worst hand he is showing there imo, and he really should be folding the turn even with
,
,
(or jamming at least if he is calling).
Love this amount of analysis when you share a table with someone..... if only you had played more hands!
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