Sunday, 17 October 2010

Gala loooool

Finally got my internet back in working condition after berating the support people again, looks like I'll be back at the tables soon. In the meantime I've been down Gala at the weekends grinding some 25p/50p. Super soft (obv), can be pretty fun at times so I'm probs gonna keep going along anyways despite the crappy hourly. Bit of an aquarium that place, saw some Chinese lad flat £70 pre with QJo with like £50 behind the other day. Been running a bit cold the past few times though, didn't really get much going till I stacked someone for £75 near the end of my session today. Also managed to somehow lose a £25 chip on my way from the table to the cashier yesterday which was pretty much my profits for that session, gg.

Got into a strange spot today with my mate Rob who plays a lot of live...

UTG straddles to £1, 2 callers (both randoms) then Rob calls in SB, I call in BB with Q9, UTG checks.

Flop comes QT6, Rob checks, I bet £2.50 and get 2 callers, Rob thinks for a few seconds and calls.

Turn 7, Rob checks and I bet £7 into £15, 2 folds and Rob calls.

River T, Rob leads £12 into £28...

I'm probs quite nitty in his eyes so I doubt he calls flop and turn with Tx that often when I bet into 3 ppl, then again it's a weird spot for him to bluff when my hand looks a lot like Qx. I doubt he's slowplaying this board with QT/66 etc so I'm only worried about KQ/QJ and I think he raises those pre at least some percentage of the time, also he's first to act so he probs just leads flop. I discussed this hand with him and someone else afterwards, pretty inconclusive tbh so if you have a bit of insight then just leave a comment. Bit of a wtf spot.

Oh and I witnessed a fine piece of shortstack justice today, dude from PokerSoc sits with £20, plays like a nit and blinds down for several hours then picks up AK and gets it in vs AQ for £15, board comes QxxQQ and he stands up and walks around for a few minutes in disbelief. Priceless.

Anyways I really ought to go to sleep soon, it's nearly 9am... my sleep schedule is pretty fucked these days, I have 9am lectures during the week and then stay up like a caffeine-fueled degen on weekends, rinse and repeat. Haven't posted a photo in a while so here's one I took the other day, figured these £50 notes make nice subject material since you don't see them often and they look kinda baller :)


(edit: fixed the colour balance, looks much nicer now)

- HappyPixel

3 comments:

kecheng said...

It seems like a line where someone is never bluffing because it's almost always going to be called. At the same time it's hard to construct of a value range for him for the reasons mentioned. I think this will often be some sort of thin value play rather than a bluff generally though unless he's levels above.

How much do you have behind? If in doubt, tank, overbet shove, especially with a nitty image, then show for hilarious metagame.

HappyPixel said...

I think I had at least £150 behind, a shove would have been sick lol

Anonymous said...

yes this was a big bluff time spot you win for sure with shov and the show is fcking hilarious