Hand 1 : 7th Jan

Ok, so we had our first sweat session of the new year last night. LuckySOB, DODGYKEN, and peten2toms were present. Dice was spending some time with family before returning to school. LuckySOB was playing 2/3 tables of $2/4NL on Absolute. These were the interesting hands that came up, with our thoughts interspersed. All hands are on 6-max tables, we've just shortened them to save space. If you want to leave any feedback or questions about any of the hands, please feel free to do so in the comments. We'll be checking back regularly.


Hand 1

Stack sizes:
Hero: $494
SB: $1594.85
BB: $782.20

Pre-flop: (4 players) Hero is UTG with Jh Ah
Hero raises to $16, Button folds, SB calls, BB calls.

Flop: 5s 6c 4c ($48, 3 players)
SB checks, BB checks, Hero checks.

This is a terrible flop to make a continuation bet into two players on. We check and plan on giving up the hand to any action.


Turn: As ($48, 3 players)
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets $36, SB calls, BB raises to $72, Hero calls, SB calls.

This is an awkward turn as it's necessary to bet to protect against all the draws versus two players. However, the ace is a card that the other two players will expect us to bet pretty often, so the fact that they've checked twice doesn't necessarily mean that they're weak here. We do make a bet (planning on probably checking behind on the river), and we get a min check-raise from the BB.

This is a spot where a fold is best. Even though we're getting super odds from the pot, the BB has made a really small check-raise on the turn into a three-way pot. It certainly doesn't look like he's trying to force us out.


River: 7h ($264, 3 players)SB checks, BB bets $60, Hero calls, SB folds.

He bets so small on the river that we're pretty much forced to call. However, the mistake we made here was on the turn. We were forced to pay off another 15BBs on the river due to our poor turn call.


Results:
Final pot: $384
BB Shows 7d 8h