Schwing

Haven't posted in a while since I haven't had anything major to report. I've been busy with school and haven't played that much.

I did have a nasty little 15-hour session at the casino playing 2/5 limit. Ended that with a profit of $70 which is a bit disappointing. The best I ever built my stack to during that session was for about $160 profit. It's a swingy game though with about 5-6 people seeing every flop. It's always fun playing live though.

Nothing to report in MTT play. A few minor cashes and some sick beats have kept me from going deep in anything.

50NL has been has swingy as well. I'm currently up 3 buy-ins on the month over 5k hands for a stupid winrate of 3bb/100. Very disappointing, but my play is getting better and I should show a much stronger winrate by the end of the month.

I've also been playing some limit heads-up. The play is generally terrible and I'm up close to $150 over very few hands. I could just be getting lucky though. Need bigger sample!

Here are a couple hands from 50NL that I found interesting in tonight's session.

Hand 1: 50NL
Seat #5 is the dealer
Seat 5 - GMAN271407 ($89.46 in chips) -- aggro donk running at 62/20/2.5
Seat 6 - Hero ($124.65 in chips)
Seat 4 - ISUTENDER07 ($99.25 in chips) -- standard TAG
Hero - Posts small blind $0.25
JAVAHAVA - Posts big blind $0.50
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [ ]
HOLDEM_07 - Folds
MAXIPESAA - Folds
ISUTENDER07 - Raises $2 to $2
GMAN271407 - Calls $2
Hero - Raises $9 to $9.25 -- standard squeeze
JAVAHAVA - Folds
ISUTENDER07 - Folds
GMAN271407 - Calls $7.25 -- not surprised

Flop:
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Not thrilled about this flop but I have to bet.

Hero - Bets $16 -- $16 into $21 pot, maybe should have bet more here
GMAN271407 - Calls $16

Turn:
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I don't put him on a Q because I think he would raise that flop. If he has a 10 I'm paying him off. Also not putting him on KK/AA because he flatted pf.

Hero - Checks -- Since he has been very aggressive I will let him take the lead and decide from there
GMAN271407 - Bets $22.50 -- half pot bet, seems very weak
Hero - All-In(Raise) $99.40 to $99.40 -- if I call here I'm committed to calling just about any river, so I might as well shove
GMAN271407 - Folds -- aggro donk lets it go
Hero - returned ($76.90) : not called
Hero - Does not show
Hero Collects $95 from main pot


Hand 2: 50NL
Seat #6 is the dealer
Seat 6 - Hero ($169.15 in chips)
Seat 5 - GMAN271407 ($98.91 in chips)
JAVAHAVA - Posts small blind $0.25
HOLDEM_07 - Posts big blind $0.50
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [ ]
MAXIPESAA - Folds
ISUTENDER07 - Folds
GMAN271407 - Calls $0.50 -- same aggro donk as in last hand
Hero - Raises $2.50 to $2.50 -- standard raise here on the button
JAVAHAVA - Folds
HOLDEM_07 - Folds
GMAN271407 - Calls $2

Flop:
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GMAN271407 - Checks
Hero - Bets $4 -- bet $4 into $5.75, maybe a little weak
GMAN271407 - Raises $10 to $10 -- interesting, I haven't seem him checkraise many flops
Hero - Calls $6 -- not sure if this is good but this guy is a an aggro donk so I'm not gonna let this go just yet

Turn:
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GMAN271407 - Bets $33 -- he overbets the $25.75 flop
Hero - Calls $33 -- I think I made a mistake here by flatting. At the time I still thought I might be ahead (likely not), and I picked up the flush draw. However, pot odds of 2-to-1 are not nearly enough here I don't think. At this point he only has $53 back so even if I hit my flush, or a T or K for a two-pair I'm still only getting roughly 3.5-to-1 implied odds.

River:
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GMAN271407 - All-In $53.41
Hero - Folds
GMAN271407 - returned ($53.41) : not called

Showdown:
GMAN271407 - Does not show
GMAN271407 Collects $88.75 from main pot

He shoves and I fold with no help from the river. I think I need to stove this hand with some ranges after a good night's sleep to see if that turn call was even remotely close to being good. Any thoughts on this hand would also be appreciated. :)