Grinding it out, one day at a time

Not really played that much poker this weekend due to working and having Pudding Jr over but the little that I have managed to cram in has been quite profitable. 621 hands for a $33.43 profit and a win rate of 13.46PTBB/100!

I’m finding the play at these Tribecca tables to be pretty poor. The players all seem very aggressive and loose but they are also reckless with it and are enjoying donating their chips to me on a regular basis! The main thing that is getting on my nerves is the fact that the vast majority are buying in short and by short I mean the minimum $5 buyin so I am not getting maximum value from my hands but I am managing to pick up a few small pots to keep me in front. It would be nice though to get a table where everyone has at least $25 in their stack for me to take! The bonus is slowly working off and I now need 9.6k action points formy free $100. It looks like it works off at 2 points per hands on average so I should be well on course to clear it and withdraw it before Xmas which will be nice.

I know you guys like to see hands so here are afew from this weekends games:

Good laydown with KQ - No reads on villain and I’m glad I laid this down as there would have been times previously where I would either have called him or raised him. he shows AQs

Should I be set mining here - I raise with 44 and am faced with a call and a raise. I’m worried that if I call here Munchiemark could stick in a big raise and I’ll have wasted valuable cash! Too weak?

Right play, wrong result - Villain running at 40/20/3.5 over 50 hands. I want to play ATs against a loose raiser and I elect to raise to isolate him.Any raise is going to commit him to the pot so I just put him all-in. Was the right move but the wrong result. Do you play any different here?

Calling all-in with AJo - Villain is same as in above hand but has just been sucked out when his all-in with AKs is called by 77 and spikes a King but loses to a runner-runner Jack high straight! I put his possible range into Poker Stove and I’m a 58/42 favourite here.But was the call too loose against someone on possible tilt?

Trips vs Boat - Is this spew? Villain is a calling station running at 47/7/0.7. Preflop is standard and I think the c-bet is too. I put Villain on a King and knew he’d pay me off with his stack if he had 2 pairor indeed a Jack so pushed all-in. He obv insta-calls with a flopped boat. Is this too aggro? Against his range and with that baord I am a 88/12 favourite.

QJ vs KQ - Same villain as above hand. Decent flop for me so I bet out not wanting flush draws have free cards. He calls as per usual. Turn can’t of helped him so I lead out again and am called. King rivers and I bet out for a third time. Should I be checking the river and folding to his bet here?

Good fold or got pwnd? - I’d been active and again I raise it up with AJs and get some action. Flop is pretty damned good and I make a decent sized bet and get 2 callers. Despite the King turning I lead again with a pot sized bet as I know LAG villain raises preflop everytime with AK and will pay me off with AT type of hands. he calls and the river is the worst possible card. He almost instantly puts me all in and I think about it and fold. He tells me later he had AQ not sure if I believe him though.

Playing the player - I liked this hand a lot! Villain is 13/7/4 over 84 hands and I decide to make a play. There wasn’t a time throughout the hand that I was in doubt of taking down the pot. Got to love it when a good bluff comes off!

Well that’s it for now folks, time for my bar shift for the next 8 hours! Off to serve the pissheads! Please feel free to comment on my hands here, good or bad, and I’ll try to respond too.

Enjoy what is left of the weekend and best of luck at those tables