Here's the hilight of the night.
On another note (Lets talk some strategy!!), it appears I've forgotten how to play AK preflop. Being a long time tournament player, I'm usually all about getting all the chips in the middle preflop. But when I'm playing cash for some reason I have a hard time doing it, and when I DO get it all in preflop, I usually lose a race to QQ or I'm dominated by KK/AA. So I'm gonna enlist any of my cash readers to help me out here. (Please?)
Here's the first one. The eff stacks are huge here.
Seat 1: inspekt0rgadget ($75.20) 26/21/2 over 112. No history.
Seat 2: betasheet ($25.80)
Seat 3: CheckinMyAA ($54)
Seat 4: henketico ($22.70)
Seat 5: CBornot ($25)
Seat 6: soso84 ($35.65) 18/12/1 over 96. No history.
CheckinMyAA posts the small blind of $0.10
henketico posts the big blind of $0.25
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to CheckinMyAA [Kd As]
CBornot folds
soso84 raises to $1
inspekt0rgadget has 15 seconds left to act
inspekt0rgadget raises to $4
betasheet folds
Do I 4bet here? Do I flat? For some reason I got lost. I wasn't thrilled about 4-betting because I would hate to call a 5bet shove from the CO who has me covered... And flatting seems crappy since we're OOP. WWYD?
Now here's another one, this time with nice 100bb stacks.
Seat 1: inspekt0rgadget ($62.30)
Seat 2: Jordanabanana ($0), is sitting out
Seat 3: CheckinMyAA ($25)
Seat 4: henketico ($22.95)
Seat 5: turning page ($25.35) 19/14/1 over 40
Seat 6: muck_it 16 ($5.25)
henketico posts the small blind of $0.10
turning page posts the big blind of $0.25
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to CheckinMyAA [Kc Ah]
muck_it 16 folds
inspekt0rgadget folds
advizory adds $25
CheckinMyAA raises to $0.75
henketico folds
turning page raises to $2.35
CheckinMyAA raises to $6.50
turning page has 15 seconds left to act
turning page raises to $25.35, and is all in
CheckinMyAA calls $18.50, and is all in
Is this ultimately standard?
Apologies if these are stupid questions, I guess I need some reassurance / refresher, and to stop thinking like a tournament player.
Cheers!
- Crush
3 comments:
I wish I knew the answers. I suck at cash games and think too much like a tournament player too. I'll be watching your comments!
I'm not too much of a cash game player but I think the second one is standard. I'm not sure about the first one, though. I think you posted it on CPer, so hopefully you get some quality responses.
-JP
Hand 2 is standard up until you call the shove... at that point the pot is laying ~1.7:1, so you need ~41.5% equity to call. According to stove, he needs to be 5-bet shoving 1010+, AQs+, AKo for you to call profitably, so it may well be a fold. Perhaps the 4-bet should be a little bigger? I struggle with these hands too, so I'm afraid while I understand the problems I am never too sure of the solutions!!!
Hand 1, I actually don't mind flatting. When someone cold-calls a 3-bet, it sets alarm bells ringing, and I think it might set you up nicely to check/raise the flop and take it down. It also controls the pot somewhat. Again, I'm flapping about in muddy waters though lolz.
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