Busy Day

So today has been a busy day tryin to run around getting ready for my big move. For those of you that don't know I am moving to Charlotte, NC on this coming Monday and i start my new job the following Monday. I am pretty damn excited to get out there and live the real life. I've already got all my housing arrangements setup as you might imagine as well as a number of other pretty important things for a big move. But obviously i still have alot more to do. So i had to run to the bank and write thank you notes and all of sorts of other little odds and ends today.

On a poker front, I played 650 hands when i woke up this morning. I ended up down 21.80 which is roughly a buyin. However i played pretty well with only one borderline decision... Here's the borderline decision and after you look at the hand i'll show ya the pokerstove analysis...

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1168704

First off, I'm not real happy with my pre-flop play as i took the passive way out and smooth called a bet. I had 4 bet the guy pre- he might have just folded or if he didn't i would have bet pot on the flop and been easily committed when he shoved on flop. Instead i played the hand with a smooth call and should have easily been able to get away from this if i wanted to. However, i felt that it was a coinflip and i was having a little gamble in me. Using pokerstove (www.pokerstove.com) and assuming this guys range to be any pocket pair other than 22 (i assume this because this push is so bizarre and way over the pot... it could be a frustrated bet), any AK (same reason as PPs), any AQ, and QK or 56ss or 67ss or 57ss or 25ss i came up with the following numbers... (btw i based this range on my players play up to the point i played the hand)

EQUITY

Hand 0: 51.312% { AsKs }
Hand 1: 48.688% { 22+, AQs+, KQs, 7s6s, 7s5s, 6s4s, 5s4s, 5s2s, 4s2s, AQo+, KQo }

As you can see my equity is over 50% which means mathematically i should call the allin but it is such a big bet so its a really high variance call.

Outside of this hand, which was obviously a tough decision, i had two just unfortunate hands which were right next to each other and strikingly similar. Nothing i could do about them though against mid stakes i will play for stacks every time on these hands...

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1168748
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1168753

What can i do? Nothing but pay him off. Notice the times and the table... pretty sick.


But off the negative note, I think played those hands to the best of my ability and gave each of them an analysis as to how i wished to play them and i played them exactly the way i wanted to. To end the blog here's a really fun hand... which i manged to milk for exception value from the session this morning...

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1168760

wish that river club had come... DAMN!

oh well i'm gonna hit the tables now so until next time...