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Saturday, March 5, 2011

Folding a full house


During current Hold'em session you were dealt 5978 hands and saw flop:

- a total of 933 out of 5978 (15%)
Pots won at showdown - 124 of 229 (54%)
Pots won without showdown - 443

Today I was 24 tabling. It went well and the bankroll is up to 153$. I have been playing very well and I hope the card keep falling my way too.

Folding a full house is painful. Today was the first time where I remember folding a full house, where the possibility of being beat was actually not even that high.

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xpch22 made a raise preflop to 11 cent. Maybe 12, but it was bigger than a normal raise. It set off alarm bells. I just called preflop. I checked the flop and was faced with a bet. I thought he might have AQ and I would be able to bluff at the pot. I called and the turn is my gold card. To be honest I missed out on seeing this, because of my multi-tabling. I always bet out when I know I have the best hand. It went check, check. The Q came on the river. Now I was that I had a full house and I bet quite a bit into the pot. xpch22 shoved. He had a huge stack and this was a huge call. I asked in the chat if he has QQ. He said who knows. I replied with "I know" and folded. If he was honest, he had it. He told me in the chat.

I knew he had a big hand preflop. I knew on the flop that I could bluff him off it. I actually had the best hand on the turn, missing out the bet to win it. He shoved without knowing where I am at. He did not like my call on the flop, he did like the river. At least that is what I think. Maybe he flopped quads, but I think that would have been checked on the flop. If this was the case, the Q saved me and not made him suck out on me.
The little chat he was giving gave it away. I knew I was beat. It did not matter to me if he had QQ or KK for the quads. My 22 was no good. I did not like folding, but my guts told me it would be a bad call. I stuck to it.

These are the kind of folds I am looking for. I want to be able to fold those kind of hands. It is hard. Guess what? It is doable. This is why I want to keep playing at those stakes for another while. I need to learn more.

Towards the end of the session I doubled up some guy twice. The first time I got AcKc and got called by one of the blinds. The flop came down 8c7c5. I got check raised and decided I wanted to race and shoved all in because he did not really have much of a stack left.. He flopped top two pair and I could not catch. This was the first double up for him from about 1.25$ to 2.5$. A few hands after that we are in the same positions, I am middle position with 55 and he was one of the blinds. I limped and he made a bigger than normal raise and I called. the flop came down 852, all off suit. He checks and of course I bet. I got called. I knew he was slow playing. I thought it was some over pair to the board. The turn is a blank and he checks again. I decided I want to felt him and went all in. A huge all in. He called and hows 88, for the better set. After that hand he had over 5$ stack. Bad ending because I was up to 158$ before this mess started.
I do not regret either play, both pretty standard to race with the AK flush draw and who could know that hes slow playing 88 in this spot. He would have done the same with AA and I was going to double up. I guess it was a mixture of tilt, because he called my AcKc raise with 78os and then the fact that I actually did have a huge hand the second time I doubled him up.

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