Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Live poker
Live poker is definitely not my favorite form of poker for a ton of obvious reasons... it's full ring, hands are dealt at a turtle like pace, you can only play one table, etc. However, it's kind of fun to mix it up a bit and get some live poker in.
I played quite a bit today at the Bellagio, starting out at $2/5 NL to get warmed up and accustomed again to the live poker feel. After a few hours, I then played some $5/10 NL. All in all, I played for about 10.5 hours and finished up around $450.
I didn't get any huge hands or win any big pots really. Most of the money I made came from just iso-raising a few limpers and then c-betting on the flop. It seemed like most of my opponents would play pretty close to fit and fold poker on the flop so long as I c-bet large enough.
I never really lost any big pots either, except a few of my c-bets got snapped off by check-raises in spots where they'd be crazy to check raise pure bluff me based upon the board texture... so I had to bet/fold a few hands where I actually hit a small piece of the board.
Overall, I was happy with my play and I was able to avoid just nitting it up and nutpeddling. I was suprised how much respect 3-bet squeezes got... I went ahead and 3-bet bluffed a few opponents that I knew would only continue with the best of hands. I pulled it off probably half a dozen times and was successful with each one.
Anyways, tomorrow is my last day in Vegas so I'll probably try to play some more live poker. I think I'll check out the games at the Wynn as I hear there are some bigger donkaments going on there right now. Also, my friend Brenton is going to be in Vegas too so I'll probably meet up with him for a bit as well.
I played quite a bit today at the Bellagio, starting out at $2/5 NL to get warmed up and accustomed again to the live poker feel. After a few hours, I then played some $5/10 NL. All in all, I played for about 10.5 hours and finished up around $450.
I didn't get any huge hands or win any big pots really. Most of the money I made came from just iso-raising a few limpers and then c-betting on the flop. It seemed like most of my opponents would play pretty close to fit and fold poker on the flop so long as I c-bet large enough.
I never really lost any big pots either, except a few of my c-bets got snapped off by check-raises in spots where they'd be crazy to check raise pure bluff me based upon the board texture... so I had to bet/fold a few hands where I actually hit a small piece of the board.
Overall, I was happy with my play and I was able to avoid just nitting it up and nutpeddling. I was suprised how much respect 3-bet squeezes got... I went ahead and 3-bet bluffed a few opponents that I knew would only continue with the best of hands. I pulled it off probably half a dozen times and was successful with each one.
Anyways, tomorrow is my last day in Vegas so I'll probably try to play some more live poker. I think I'll check out the games at the Wynn as I hear there are some bigger donkaments going on there right now. Also, my friend Brenton is going to be in Vegas too so I'll probably meet up with him for a bit as well.
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