Good stuff Benko, congrats on a nice win! I liked the wicked last hand. UL Nor69, but a nice display nonetheless, wp both! Sorry I couldn't make it on Sunday, my hangover from the party in Stavanger had me sound asleep on the sofa way before gametime.
I can't believe you limped w Q9o in hand 10. Nice postflop play though. You know me too well :)
HH 18 I had AJ and flopped a straight (this is the hand klokk and Nor wondered about)
hh23 nice pf call with J9o vs the minraise from seabreeze. It looks terrible, but the math and situation make it correct. Nice!
hh 26 Everyone ought to review this hand! You folded top pair top kicker on a wet board. Early in the game I completely agree. These are the hands where people get knocked out early. Good fold! (I folded top pair weak kicker on hand 50 to Nor...still not sure about that one)
hh 28 lol nice bluff!
hh 35 limping with K2s! hmm, you have really widened your starting range since you moved to the 6 max tables. Nice flop!
hh98 I love your all in reraise with the flush draw rather than calling. Calling is a common weakness in these situations causing many players to spew their chips. Nice one!
hh 61 another hand people ought to review. Nice fold.
hh 72 K9o firing the second barrel. This seems to be your first possible mistake.
hh86 nice limp with AK getting me to make a move. I know you typically have a solid hand when you limp. But, I was short and was hoping to be up against a smaller pp for a cointoss. Nice hand!
HU I like your heads up play. I have about the same range as you for pf raising and calling. You were nice and aggressive post flop. And, obviously, you got lucky when you needed to.
All in all a great game benko! You adjusted your pf range to the number of players at the table and played smartly post flop. You pushed people around with your stack which seemed pretty read based, but were able to get away from some unnecessary and questionable confrontations early.
PS: It seems like you were utilizing the Negreanu style of checking the flop and Cbetting on the turn. Nice.
Thanks guys. You missed a good game, MrSmith, with some solid play all around.
HH10/22/35 You will probably have deduced from the replay that short-handed and with reasonably deep stacks, I don't like to fold the button or the BB for one BB bet. So Q9o on the button, J9o in the BB (and K2s in the CO) were just good enough to call. Let's see a flop!
HH26 Still wondering what NOR had, of course! Top pair with a worse kicker? A set? Two pair? A draw or combo draw? Did he slow play a big pair pre-flop or have the same hand as mine? Maybe I should have reraised on the flop but in position, I decided to play pot control instead. If another club had come on the turn giving me the NFD to go with TPTK, I would have gone with the hand but when the board bottom paired and he led out with another bet, it just seemed too expensive to find out what he had when it should have been obvious to him that I could easily have AQ or KQ. Well played, NOR!
HH28/30/69 I've been winning a lot of pots (and a lot of big pots) recently with 85 (though usually suited) so I was happy to open limp from the small blind (HH28) and open raise (HH30) with it. And not happy that later I had to fold 85o in the BB to an oversized open raise by Seabreeze (HH69)!
HH61 I thought Seabreeze adjusted well when his stack started to dwindle. I had to fold A5o and K3s on the button when he reraised me from the BB. Very annoying. And here, rather than risk a third of my stack on what was likely a race and having no fold equity, I folded 88 to his oversized open raise. (Whereas against MrSmith, I'm all-in against his presumed Ax, lol!)
HH72 After bluffing the ace on the turn, the ace on the river made it less likely that he had one but also made it less likely that I had one so I decided against bluffing the river too. Not sure about that one.
HH86 I tried the same thing a few hands earlier (open limping from the SB with a big ace, in that case AQo) hoping to induce an all-in from the relatively short-stacked Roland in the BB but no go.
HH96 Having two overcards and a backdoor straight draw to go with the FD and the low card flop that likely missed NOR all made the decision to push much easier.
Good stuff Benko, congrats on a nice win! I liked the wicked last hand. UL Nor69, but a nice display nonetheless, wp both! Sorry I couldn't make it on Sunday, my hangover from the party in Stavanger had me sound asleep on the sofa way before gametime.
ReplyDeleteGG Benko
ReplyDeleteI can't believe you limped w Q9o in hand 10. Nice postflop play though. You know me too well :)
HH 18 I had AJ and flopped a straight (this is the hand klokk and Nor wondered about)
hh23 nice pf call with J9o vs the minraise from seabreeze. It looks terrible, but the math and situation make it correct. Nice!
hh 26 Everyone ought to review this hand! You folded top pair top kicker on a wet board. Early in the game I completely agree. These are the hands where people get knocked out early. Good fold! (I folded top pair weak kicker on hand 50 to Nor...still not sure about that one)
hh 28 lol nice bluff!
hh 35 limping with K2s! hmm, you have really widened your starting range since you moved to the 6 max tables. Nice flop!
hh98 I love your all in reraise with the flush draw rather than calling. Calling is a common weakness in these situations causing many players to spew their chips. Nice one!
hh 61 another hand people ought to review. Nice fold.
hh 72 K9o firing the second barrel. This seems to be your first possible mistake.
hh86 nice limp with AK getting me to make a move. I know you typically have a solid hand when you limp. But, I was short and was hoping to be up against a smaller pp for a cointoss. Nice hand!
HU I like your heads up play. I have about the same range as you for pf raising and calling. You were nice and aggressive post flop. And, obviously, you got lucky when you needed to.
All in all a great game benko! You adjusted your pf range to the number of players at the table and played smartly post flop. You pushed people around with your stack which seemed pretty read based, but were able to get away from some unnecessary and questionable confrontations early.
PS: It seems like you were utilizing the Negreanu style of checking the flop and Cbetting on the turn. Nice.
Roland
Thanks guys. You missed a good game, MrSmith, with some solid play all around.
ReplyDeleteHH10/22/35 You will probably have deduced from the replay that short-handed and with reasonably deep stacks, I don't like to fold the button or the BB for one BB bet. So Q9o on the button, J9o in the BB (and K2s in the CO) were just good enough to call. Let's see a flop!
HH26 Still wondering what NOR had, of course! Top pair with a worse kicker? A set? Two pair? A draw or combo draw? Did he slow play a big pair pre-flop or have the same hand as mine? Maybe I should have reraised on the flop but in position, I decided to play pot control instead. If another club had come on the turn giving me the NFD to go with TPTK, I would have gone with the hand but when the board bottom paired and he led out with another bet, it just seemed too expensive to find out what he had when it should have been obvious to him that I could easily have AQ or KQ. Well played, NOR!
HH28/30/69 I've been winning a lot of pots (and a lot of big pots) recently with 85 (though usually suited) so I was happy to open limp from the small blind (HH28) and open raise (HH30) with it. And not happy that later I had to fold 85o in the BB to an oversized open raise by Seabreeze (HH69)!
HH61 I thought Seabreeze adjusted well when his stack started to dwindle. I had to fold A5o and K3s on the button when he reraised me from the BB. Very annoying. And here, rather than risk a third of my stack on what was likely a race and having no fold equity, I folded 88 to his oversized open raise. (Whereas against MrSmith, I'm all-in against his presumed Ax, lol!)
HH72 After bluffing the ace on the turn, the ace on the river made it less likely that he had one but also made it less likely that I had one so I decided against bluffing the river too. Not sure about that one.
HH86 I tried the same thing a few hands earlier (open limping from the SB with a big ace, in that case AQo) hoping to induce an all-in from the relatively short-stacked Roland in the BB but no go.
HH96 Having two overcards and a backdoor straight draw to go with the FD and the low card flop that likely missed NOR all made the decision to push much easier.
Until the next time!