October 18, 2007

Ok, i played my first 215 hands

Ok, i played 215 hands, mostly on 2 tables at the same time. I had a great session overall but still made some horrible calls, and some stupid bluffs attempt. But I think I now have a better understanding of the power of raising preflop. I really tried to limp THE LESS POSSIBLE, but many times i had to because of a combination of multi-limpers, good-pot odds, and not a great position (both pre-flop and post-flop) so I still think that limping pre-flop IS SOMETIME THE BEST OPTION.

I also got payed a lot more because of all the action i was giving, wich allowed me to take down some nice pots. I made a donk/genius call and i was right, wich is really ego-boosting, but i was quite sure of my read, because i've seen the guy straigth bet his good holdings, and he check raised me all in on the turn after i flat called his bet on the flop on raised him on the turn. I had the second pair, a pair of nine, at that time with a 7 kicker, and he had a pocket pair of fives. Vilain had ~15$ at the beginning of the hand so i made a great profit there. And all of this because of the effort i had put in watching the other players play. So for today that my second lesson: pay attention, it will pay off.


Here is a poker grapher screenshot of these 215 hands.

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