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Old 10-19-2006, 07:12 PM
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Nothing big at all but it was a nice way to start the day. I hadnt tried any HU tourneys at Jungle and thought I'd have a look. I didnt like em much, the blind levels are incredibly fast.
I managed to win that one and left and went to PS.. couldnt see much in the way of MTTs to suit me so I played another $5 heads up and won that too.

Straight after that I joined my first ring game at PS. I hit something on my very first hand and took someones micro-stack.

Here's the last hand of the PS HU. My main concern was my first re-raise on the river. Views on the size of this re-raise or whether you would of played it differently are appreciated.

PokerStars Game #6688591516: Tournament #34014700, $5.00+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2006/10/19 - 08:17:26 (ET)
Table '34014700 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: caro1975 (1550 in chips)
Seat 2: 7letters (1450 in chips)
caro1975: posts small blind 10
7letters: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to 7letters [2h 3h]
caro1975: raises 20 to 40
7letters: raises 20 to 60
caro1975: calls 20
*** FLOP *** [5c Tc 4s]
7letters: bets 100
caro1975: calls 100
*** TURN *** [5c Tc 4s] [6h]
7letters: checks
caro1975: checks
*** RIVER *** [5c Tc 4s 6h] [Js]
7letters: bets 160
caro1975: raises 160 to 320
7letters: raises 380 to 700 .................................................. ...?
caro1975: raises 380 to 1080
7letters: raises 210 to 1290 and is all-in
caro1975: calls 210
*** SHOW DOWN ***
7letters: shows [2h 3h] (a straight, Deuce to Six)
caro1975: shows [4c 4h] (three of a kind, Fours)
7letters collected 2900 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2900 | Rake 0
Board [5c Tc 4s 6h Js]
Seat 1: caro1975 (button) (small blind) showed [4c 4h] and lost with three of a kind, Fours
Seat 2: 7letters (big blind) showed [2h 3h] and won (2900) with a straight, Deuce to Six

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My first ever ring game hand at PS.
Checked sharkscope on 3 players. vscasper is losing badly , plums21 so-so amgcat looks like a strong player from scope evidence.

Hoping for responses here on whether you think my call was ok. Obvioulsy I did think so at the time.

PokerStars Game #6688653864: Hold'em No Limit ($0.01/$0.02) - 2006/10/19 - 08:31:31 (ET)
Table 'Muliphein' 6-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: Plums21 ($4.02 in chips)
Seat 2: botch606 ($2.22 in chips)
Seat 3: AMGCAT ($1.45 in chips)
Seat 4: 7letters ($5 in chips)
Seat 5: vcasper143 ($4.35 in chips)
AMGCAT: posts small blind $0.01
7letters: posts big blind $0.02
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to 7letters [Qs Qc]
vcasper143: calls $0.02
Plums21: calls $0.02
botch606: calls $0.02
AMGCAT: calls $0.01
7letters: raises $0.08 to $0.10
vcasper143: calls $0.08
Plums21: calls $0.08
botch606: folds
AMGCAT: folds
*** FLOP *** [6s 4d Qd]
7letters: bets $0.22
vcasper143: calls $0.22
Plums21: folds
*** TURN *** [6s 4d Qd] [5h]
7letters: bets $0.90
vcasper143: raises $3.13 to $4.03 and is all-in
7letters: calls $3.13
*** RIVER *** [6s 4d Qd 5h] [As]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
7letters: shows [Qs Qc] (three of a kind, Queens)
vcasper143: mucks hand
7letters collected $8.44 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $8.84 | Rake $0.40
Board [6s 4d Qd 5h As]
Seat 1: Plums21 folded on the Flop
Seat 2: botch606 (button) folded before Flop
Seat 3: AMGCAT (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: 7letters (big blind) showed [Qs Qc] and won ($8.44) with three of a kind, Queens
Seat 5: vcasper143 mucked [5c 5s]

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oh and just some general thoughts about Sharkscope really. I've been aware of it for some time but had no need to use it before playing at PS. I've found it a useful guide already. Do many of you use this a lot? How do you think the info helps your game? Do you actual pay for the services or just use your free searches like I do?

It was useful when I entered the ring game today. I checked out the 2 largest stacks and for some reason I seemed to recognised the player named AMGCAT. He was sat there with only $1.45. My sharkscope told me he was infact a rather succesful player so at least I knew to be cautious.
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oh and just some general thoughts about Sharkscope really. I've been aware of it for some time but had no need to use it before playing at PS. I've found it a useful guide already. Do many of you use this a lot? How do you think the info helps your game? Do you actual pay for the services or just use your free searches like I do?
From what I know regarding Sharkscope is that it only refers to the players SNG/Tourney stats, but not Ring game stats.....so you could be looking at someone who bums about in a cheap SNG however when it comes to ring games he plays an altogether game......so I don't really find it much use.....In fact it is one of the only things that annoys me about PS... The amount of players that use that info at the table to berate other players.

A while back I was a fish.....then I was hot.....now I'm probably a fish again.....however on my day I pretty much feel I can bust out whoever I'm up against regardless what sharkscope indicates them as or me.

As for the hands, I'm so tight I wouldn't have called 23s to any raise.....but other than that they both worked out nicely IMO.
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Ahh so it's just tourney stats. Thanks I didnt know that. I suppose it can be used as a general indicator only. The ROI tells you something a suppose but not the whole story of course nor what they bought in for etc as you say.


As for the 2-3s hand, it was a heads up game and I didnt actually call it as you said, I raised it. I'm happy with the way I played the 2-3 it was more the size of my re-raise on the river that I hoped to get views on. Always open to other peoples opinions though and I appreciate yours
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The only thing I would worry about with the first hand is that you don't have the nut straight, or the 2nd nut straight...it's the third nuts. Checking at this point, from my perspective, is not an option, as they could have an inside draw or open ended draw that would give them a better straight, in which case, your up the creek (or in this case, river ) without a paddle. In terms of the 2nd hand, nice job, you forced your opponent to get his chips in teh middle with the worst hand...but know that a bet of that big in a pot of that size won't get you a call by 3rd pair on that type of flop at the higher limits.
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As for the 2-3s hand, it was a heads up game and I didnt actually call it as you said, I raised it. I'm happy with the way I played the 2-3 it was more the size of my re-raise on the river that I hoped to get views on. Always open to other peoples opinions though and I appreciate yours
No worries bud you are as always more than welcome.....I didn't see that it was HU play...sorry my bad (just one reason why I rarely reply to HHs....and the fact that I don't know what I'm going on about)....he did raise first and you re-raised ....as for your re-raise on the river I like the play....you have the 3rd best hand...I would have put him on a flush draw(rather than 73/78)....and would have got my $ in.....maybe I should call with 23s.......
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The only thing I would worry about with the first hand is that you don't have the nut straight, or the 2nd nut straight...it's the third nuts.

3rd buddy......what am I missing?

EDIT: MY bad 73......sorry, just off to correct my post
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Yeh I see your point Mars. At the time I only saw 8-7 as a danger. Infact I don't think I'd even thought 7-3 while playing. We had been playing for some time even though it was level 1( I like those long levels in Stars)

The player had so far only made raises on very good cards. He could have had 7-8 by all means. I took the risk as I didnt think so. It was interesting also that he didnt seem to want to put any hands down and had called my raises more than once with a high card only or third pair. Maybe it was a 'look loose' strategy..never found out.

Fair point though Mars and it was a risk I took.

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No worries bud you are as always more than welcome.....I didn't see that it was HU play...sorry my bad (just one reason why I rarely reply to HHs....and the fact that I don't know what I'm going on about)....he did raise first and you re-raised ....as for your re-raise on the river I like the play....you have the 3rd best hand...I would have put him on a flush draw(rather than 73/78)....and would have got my $ in.....maybe I should call with 23s.......
Yeh, flush draw possibly with his check on the turn, after his first raise (river)I put him on 2 pair/set...I re-raised there to get him off a smaller hand. I just wondered about the size of my raise there .Anyway he didnt fold or call -I got a re-raise...
..I wonder then if, considering my preflop re-raise, he's putting me on a straight? Possibly not. I wasnt putting him on a straight( I'm beat or split if he has one) so my only other option was he was playing a set and I had him beat. It was a risk. He took forever to make the call , well into his time bank and I comtemplated typing something to promt a call... decided I didnt know enough about reverse pyschology and kept my mouth/fingers shut lol

As for the 2-3s Sonny, well HU I don't mind throwing a few of those hands in, theyre often very deceptive I think . Particularly if you raise from the SB with them. I suppose it's just a case of mixing things up and hopefully mixing your opponent up. I'm not recommending anybody follows my advice anyway lol ahh well doesnt hurt to offer it though does it.

Thanks for the replies chaps.
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