Overall: +$76.75 in 1441 table minutes
I think this was my first early afternoon session. The tables didn't seem very different to me. It was nice to have two stable tables after last night when I think I was in and out of 6 different tables over the course of the session.
Hand 1: I have A4s in the small blind. There's a super-passive, super-bad limper UTG and the rest of the table folds. I can see raising this hand sometimes in this spot to try to knock out BB and get heads up OOP against a really bad player, but I'd rather have a mid-range kicker instead of a lower one so that postflop play will be a little less tricky. I'd much rather have K8s here than A4s. I limp in and BB raises. I don't have a lot to say about BB. He has let me steal a number of his blinds from him so I take him to be a generally weak player. We all call. The flop is AQT. I check, BB checks, and UTG checks. Normally, I'd put villain on a strong hand like AQ/AK/AA/QQ. However, with this weakish player, I think that KK/JJ are both legitimate possibilities, with perhaps KQ in there. Anyway the turn is a J. At this point, I'm trailing *EVERY* legitimate raising hand from BB, so I check-fold. The two other players go to showdown for one bet each street, and they both show down a K for the nut straight.
Hand 2: I open-raise Q9o from the button and get called by BB. The flop is 542. He checks and I bet. This villain played pretty tight-passive, but knew how to bet good hands. In this case, that means top pair, a set, flopped straight (A3s, not 63), or maybe an overpair to the board. I peel getting 7:1 (which is a little loose against this player). He leads again when the turn comes a queen. I made the mistake of just calling instead of raising. This is a clear value raise against a player who will not 3-bet without a very strong hand and who will call down even though he thinks he is beat. It's also important because he will not bet the river with a marginal hand, so this is the only spot for a value raise. The river was an action-killing ace, and he check-called with his K5s.
Hand 3: I raise ATo UTG and get called by both blinds. The flop is JT2 with a flush draw and the small blind donks it. SB is somewhat new to the table, but has so far seemed to be a weakish. Of course, this is a read over only about a dozen hands, so I don't put a whole lot of faith into it. All three of us call. The turn is an 8 and SB donks again. BB calls and I think for a moment about my action. I'm getting around 6:1 (after rake). If I'm behind, I likely have 4-5 outs, but I might still be ahead. I think this is a good point to fold because if I'm ahead, I don't know if I stay ahead often enough on the draw-happy river card to make up for the times I'm getting short odds. But I called. The river was another 8 and now SB checks but BB donks. BB is strangely erratic on the river. He seems to like waking up on the river and showing down fairly weak hands and missed draws. I'm pretty sure I'm ahead of him, but I'm worried that SB had a jack and is afraid of running trips (which would be consistent with my weakish read). After some contemplation, I decide that I should call because my read on SB is too weak to fold when I know that I'm either first or second, and especially when I don't fear a check-raise. BB had T7o, but SB had AJs for the read-confirming TPTK.
Hand 4: I'm not going to type it all out, but I lost with K7o flopping trip sevens from the small blind. It was capped on the flop against what turned out to be two flush draws, and they hit it on the turn. I was able to get away without putting anything in on the river, but it's too bad when you get the flop capped as a 75% favorite because of all the dead flush cards plus your boat redraw, but lose 4 bets on the turn chasing the big pot when you're a 4:1 dog.
Hand 5: I had a happy moment when my 84o from BB flopped two pair against pocket queens that decided to limp. I got it capped on the flop and one bet each on the big streets. I might have gone for the check-raise on the turn except that the action-killer fell and slowed him down.
Edit: I posted Hand 6 at the TwoPlusTwo Microlimit forum. I think I played it right, but I'm curious to know what others think about it.
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