Key to the night was SLOW PLAYING, keeping pots small, just calling pre-flop raises and limiting myself to 1/2 pot bets after the flop if there wasn't an obvious draw. This worked two-fold: (1) took down pots with minimal risk, playing from position and (2) Induced several raises from aggressive opponents when I was holding the nutz. My post-flop play is responsible for the big session, and it highlighted an area that I need to explore further.
Holding AA from the small blind, I just call a $35 raise and check the flop of J76, which induces a pot-sized continuation bet. I "think" about it for 20 seconds and just call. After the turn of Q with no flush draw, I check again and then min-raise another pot bet of $240 to $480. He calls. Blank on the river and I bet $200 into a $1200 pot, he calls with KJ suited.
I bluffed a pot of $600 with 6c7c after playing the check, call, and bet-out rope-a-dope on an aggressive player after the Turn brought flush/straight possibilities (not for me though) when I was sure he had a medium-high over pair. I bluffed VERY few times and played only 19% of hands, so I had a tight table image, allowing me to selectively steal pots where I had missed.
Overall, despite watching TV and playing two tables, I had a good feel for the table. Playing very tight, keeping the pot small (allowing others to try re-raise steals), and slow-playing big hands was a leathal combination.
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"Holding AA from the small blind, I just call a $35 raise and check the flop of J76, which induces a pot-sized continuation bet. I "think" about it for 20 seconds and just call. After the turn of Q with no flush draw, I check again and then min-raise another pot bet of $240 to $480. He calls. Blank on the river and I bet $200 into a $1200 pot, he calls with KJ suited."
I don't like this for the same reason I emailed last time about slow playing aces. There's just too much chance that an over card will come that will scare him away. If he's hit the J which he did and you reraised him on the flop, he would surely call and then you'll get him roped in. By check calling the flop and min raising the turn, I do think you're giving him cutprice extra cards. What, once you bet $200 on the river, he reraised all in for another $1.4K (not sure his stack). I think at the end of the day, you're relying on the fact that over pair will be good enough by the time it gets to the river? I just think it's a classic example of where you can lose alot of money with aces. But then again, I've never been a fan of slowplaying. Still...nice pot though!
Sounds good to me but i'd have liked to have bet more on the river - he's getting such good odds if he'll call 200 surely he'll call 400..
I thought he would raise me on the river...maybe that's a bad play, after second thought (per CC's comments)...his advice is a good one....for a change =) JUST KIDDING CC
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