Still now online poker for a while and fitting in whatever ive games I can justify. Was in Melbourne with work Tuesday night and got a few hours at Crown. The $1/$2 game was playing so I jumped in. The BI is between $40-$80 nd to my horror the rake is 10% up to a $15 cap - ridiculous. The other players need to be really bad to win and winning fewer hands with larger pots has got to be better, so TAG is the way to go, in theory, I think, bugga who cares, I'm here to play poker and break even is probably a win.
Unmemorable hands were suited connectors and small to medium pocket pairs which all missed on the flop. Three memorable hands ...
Hand 1: All folded to me on the button with AA. I made it $6 to go to look like a steal, SB fold, BB raises to $16. Hollywooded a little and re-raised to $46 to which he inst-raised AI. We didn't show so you can guess my horror when 4 blanks were followed by a K on the river. He had AQo - moral of the story, you make most money from the mistakes of others.
Hand 2: Everyone limped to me in the SB with QQ. I made it $17 to go and got 3 callers. Flop came AKTr. Bugga. Plugged up all of the courage I could muster and pushed $50 into the middle. To my surprise Fold, Fold, Fold - managed to resist shouting Woo Hoo!
Hand 3: Late at night, all regulars at the table which is getting more aggressive. 5 limpers to me in CO. With KK I decide to limp expecting SB to raise. He'd been raising $17 to steal pots and $6 to build pots. Not a bad strategy, I guess. He duly raised to $6 and everyone called. With me almost last to act now I got to bump it up to $56 and with a lot of banter, everyone reluctantly folded. Happy enough to win without trying to avoid an A.
Big winner on the night was Crown Casino; Little winner was me with a profit of $20 and quality table time under my belt.
1 year ago
6 comments:
nice blog dude! I love Crown Casino, awesome place!
Well played. Live sounds like a lot of fun.
Wow that's a crazy rake structure you got there!
10% seems pretty standard, but up to 15$?!? Wow...
Jees, that's awful. Even the 2/3 at Burswood is capped at $8, which is not too bad with buyins now up to $200.
Hand 2 was a bit brave at such a loose table.
I'm a bit surprised the game has any regulars with that rake..
On the KK hand, I suspect a shove is just as likely to be called as $56 (which is a bit of an overbet into a $36 pot). So in that situation, I'd either bet pot (if some of the stacks are deep) or just shove.
Yes, the rake is absolutely ridiculous. They only run the $1/$2 Mon thru Thurs and I suspect that it is intended to attract recreational players. Unfortunately this attracts others looking for fish too. The $200 BI is better value but by the time I'd realised that, I knew the player tendencies and was fairly comfortable of breaking even and winning. The 3 hands were good but otherwise I got really cold decked by the flop.
As for Hand 2, I'm not sure I made the best play, but on this occassion it worked. Certainly tested my mettle.
Hands 2 and 3, my stack was well over $250 for both, hence the pot-sized raise. The session started with a lot of incremental topping up when I was investing the standard raise of $7-$12 with middle pairs and high suited connectors and missed every flop.
After Hand 1, I doubled up and never looked back as I had the stick I'd been looking for up until then.
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