Hand Reading And Tells

My Bad River Bluff at $200 NL

I’m playing $200 NL against Cricket Scores, a somewhat decent regular. We stacked off preflop when my AKs ran into his pocket queens. At this point, we’ve only played like 20 hands or so.

Mistakes

About a week ago, I made a mistake at $200NL HU vs. Smokin Mokin (a breakeven reg). Here’s the hand in question.

Hero (BB) ($200)
Button ($245)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 8♦, 6♦
Button bets $6, Hero calls $4

How I Misplayed Pocket Jacks

I’ve been playing a bit 6max lately and I wanted to share a hand I recently misplayed. There’s definitely some insight you can draw from this example to help you with your heads up game.

Heads Up Hand of the Week — March 20th, 2009

The villain has played a lot of hands but he’s a breakeven player. He’s a bit too loose from the big blind and he occasionally makes some really spazzy plays. He’s 3bet pretty aggressively, but not an unreasonable amount. He continuation bets almost…

Heads Up Hand of the Week — February 20th, 2009

The villain bought in short which tells me off the bat that he’s probably not a good player. He calls out of position way too often (56% of the time) and is not raising enough from the button (only 31% of the time). He’s pretty aggressive and…

Heads Up Hand of Week — February 13th, 2009

Villain has been calling my 3bets very light. I 3bet him 8 times and he’s called 6 of them. He folds to my continuation bets around half the time which is a bit loose considering I’ve been cbetting rather conservatively. He moderately aggressive on all…