So I ended up on my third sessions $337 and am excited about next week’s session! I wanted to talk about a few of the hands that I encountered in the session…one of which I just won, the second the call that should have turned into a bluff, and the bluff that turned out to be a great play. So let’s get into the action:
Hand #1: The hand I just won…I get dealt 2
2
in Early Position. I limped in for $2 and there was a raise from Middle Position for $12 there were 5 callers and me which makes 6. The pot was $72 and the flop came:2
68
68 I flopped a SET!!! Short for 3 of a Kind! WITH A RAINBOW FLOP!!! So I knew I had an almost 100% lock on the pot. But as we know from last week…NOTHING is guaranteed in poker until the river. Everyone checks to the raiser, which often happens. He bets $22 and gets two callers so I proceed to push all of my chips in which was $32. Needless to say everybody called the $10 extra. The turn and river came 9 and 5. Nobody caught a flush or straight so I won the entire pot of $200. That was a great start to the session.
and 5. Nobody caught a flush or straight so I won the entire pot of $200. That was a great start to the session.Hand #2: The call that I should have turned into a bluff…I got dealt AK. I raise in Early Position to $12 and get two callers in Late Position. The flop comes:
K. I raise in Early Position to $12 and get two callers in Late Position. The flop comes:JJ9
J9I have NOTHING so I decide to bet $21 anyway because it is very likely they don’t have anything either and I will get them to fold. Well my plan worked half way…one guy folded and the other called.
The turn came:
5
I decided to check and so did he. The river came:
I decided to check and so did he. The river came:
2
I check again and he bets $35. He just called my flop bet, and checked the turn. Because he played the hand that way I did not think he was strong at all. He probably had a small pocket pair or a missed diamond flush draw, or a pair on the board. So I decided to call with my Ace high…turns out he had T
9. With a pair of nines that beat my Ace high. In hindsight I should have raised instead of called based on the hand range I put him on. This would allow me to win the pot and bet him off the hand. If he does call me he has a Jack…which again is very unlikely.Hand #3: The bluff that turned out to be a great play…I was dealt 86 so I decided to call a raise from the player to my left after 2 other people called. I called a $17 bet which was pretty steap but I figured if I hit my hand I could win the pot and I also have the option to bluff too. The flop came:
6 so I decided to call a raise from the player to my left after 2 other people called. I called a $17 bet which was pretty steap but I figured if I hit my hand I could win the pot and I also have the option to bluff too. The flop came:772
72I checked and so did everyone else. At this point I figured no one had anything. So I was going to make a move depending on what the turn was. The turn came:
5
This was a great card because it gave me 6 to 8 cards to get a straight that would win the pot. I decided to check with the intention to raise all in for just over $100. The original raiser decided to bet $35 the other two players folded. The action got to me and I stuck with my plan I shoved all of my chips into the middle. The guy who bet $35 thought for a long time and folded. I put him on a hand like AK or AQ something that was good pre-flop but had nothing on the board that came out. I gladly turned over my cards to show everyone the bluff that won me a $103 pot. I ended the session up over $300 dollars with a smile on my face! And that is the story of the good hand, the bad ass bluff, and the ugly call.
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