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Friday, June 16. 2006

When marginal hands go good

Nice to be on the receiving end of hands like this for a change. Twice today as well, with back-to-back big blinds having poor hands turn into winners...


PokerRoom $2/$4 Hold'em (9 handed)
Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: HTML)

Preflop: lucky_donut is BB with Jc, 9c.
1 fold, UTG+1 calls, 2 folds, MP3 calls, 1 fold, Button raises, SB calls, UTG+1 calls, MP3 calls.

Flop: (8 SB) Ks, 2h, 9s (5 players)
SB bets, lucky_donut calls, UTG+1 folds, MP3 calls, Button raises, SB calls, MP3 calls.

Turn: (7 BB) 9h (4 players)
SB bets, lucky_donut raises, MP3 folds, Button calls, SB calls.

River: (13 BB) 7c (3 players)
SB checks, lucky_donut bets, Button calls, SB calls.

Final Pot: 16 BB

Results:
SB has 8h Kh (two pair, kings and nines).
lucky_donut has Jc 9c (three of a kind, nines).
Button has As Kc (two pair, kings and nines).

Outcome: lucky_donut wins 16 BB.


Nice bit of fishing - yay me. It's close, but the pot's a bit too big here to give up second pair on the flop even with the two-suited board. After the raise though, I figure I need to improve (unless he's raising a spade draw), but boy do I... The overcall on the river from the small blind holding top pair and no kicker is pretty nice - he can surely only hope to be splitting this pot three ways?



Preflop: lucky_donut is BB with 7s, Qs.
2 folds, MP1 raises, MP2 calls, MP3 calls, 3 folds, lucky_donut calls.

Flop: (7.50 SB) 9d, 5s, 6c (4 players)
lucky_donut checks, MP1 checks, MP2 checks, MP3 bets, lucky_donut calls, MP1 calls, MP2 calls.

Turn: (5.75 BB) 3d (4 players)
lucky_donut checks, MP1 checks, MP2 checks, MP3 bets, lucky_donut calls, MP1 folds, MP2 calls.

River: (8.75 BB) Qh (3 players)
lucky_donut checks, MP2 checks, MP3 checks.

Final Pot: 8.75 BB

Results:
BB has 7s Qs (one pair, queens).
MP2 has Ad 4s (high card, ace).
MP3 has 8c 8d (one pair, eights).

Outcome: lucky_donut wins 8.75 BB.

Little draw, slightly better draw, oh ok then, top pair will do. I'm getting 8.5-1 on the inside draw, a bit low but with 4 players still in I figure a straight on the turn would be good for at least 2 more big bets. The double-gutshot on the turn has plenty of pot odds though. However when the hand I made was just a pair of queens, I really didn't know whether to bet this out of position so I craply check - I'm happily calling one bet here but if I bet and get raised things get expensive with a very mediocre hand, totally weak. Figure I probably lost a bet from 88, who might well make a crying call.

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