I played a few interesting hands, but for the most part it was pretty routine. Overall now through my play (short sample alert!) I’ve put in 750 hands and am running at 5.5bb/100, statswise 32/28/2. It’s really not important, but for those who are following, I figured I’d post it. When I hit a few thousand hands I’ll try to post a PT shot of the hands I’ve played — today I was mostly lagging it up trying to get some hands in and trying to get PAHud setup for a series of videos that I’d like to do on datamining, game and seat selection.
Here’s one that I wish would have been in a video. a 26/18/2/2/9 (yes, river aggression of 9) player through ~100 hands opens in the CO. I 3bet AsQs in the SB and he calls. The flop is 922. I bet and he calls. The turn is a J. I bet, and he pauses for a while and calls. The river is a 5. I check, he bets, and I checkraise…
Umm, HOW DOES THIS END???
I’m assuming this is also a 50c hand? That c-r looks crazy so I’m dying to hear the explanation.
Heh. It wasn’t good in this instance but I figured he’d bet any pair and didn’t likely have a hand as good as or better than Jx, and with an insane river aggression I thought there might also be a bit of a chance that he got to the river with a worse hand (though not likely). I was actually very tempted to bet for value straight up (as he seemed to be calling down with Ace high), but in the moment thought a c/r was better as I’d induce some bluffs from K-high and his river aggression seemed indicative that he bets and raises and folds a lot, and doesn’t call so much, on the river.
Obviously my read was off as he bet and called my c/r with AK-high. I took a note and moved on.
You are very clever and just knew your reply would reveal something I completely overlooked. I was originally going to comment that you didn’t give us enough info on his behavior to decide if the c-r was wise or not.
But reading your reply I can see that you did – your assessment of his rvr agg is perceptive. It never occurred to me that a high fold rate is a huge factor in distorted agg; I see high agg and think “bets/raises” without even considering the “folds”. Lightbulb.