Table Image

BR: $24,971

Playerd 75 hands before going to program today. My table image started off very aggressive. First, I raised out of the SB, then potted to a field of two on a AK9 flop. Then another raise and uncontested flop. I decided that these factors + BB's simplistic play style meant that in this hand I had to be ahead. I'm getting reraised preflop if he had an overpair; he doesn't have two pair. If he has a set, so be it, but that just isn't consistent with this mini-raise. Well that's not true, but I don't mind paying sets off.

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MP ($433.3)
Button ($469)
Hero ($537)
BB ($354.94)
UTG ($426.54)
Preflop: Hero is SB with As, Th. Hero posts a blind of $3.
3 folds, Hero (poster) raises to $15, BB calls $12.
Flop: ($36) Ts, 4s, 5c (2 players)
Hero bets $30, BB raises to $70, Hero raises to $244.2, BB is all-in, Hero calls $92.74.
Turn: ($442.94) 8s (2 players)
River: ($442.94) 7s (2 players)
Final Pot: $442.94

I start toying with super-passive-tight to my right:

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CO ($316.3)
Button ($979.04)
SB ($511.8)
Hero ($970.59)
UTG ($138.5)
MP ($0)
Preflop: Hero is BB with 8s, 4c. SB posts a blind of $3.
2 folds, SB (poster) raises to $9, Hero calls $6.
Flop: ($24) Ts, Jc, 9d (4 players)
SB bets $6, Hero calls $6.
Turn: ($36) 8c (4 players)
SB bets $6, Hero calls $6.
River: ($48) Qd (4 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $46, SB folds.
Final Pot: $94

Villain: thats as stupid as u are
Hero: ty

Super-passive-tight is tight, and his raises signal real hand strength. But usually its not really worth it to call, even in position, because you aren’t getting paid off. This conversation, however, seems to indicate that things have changed a little ...

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UTG ($270.3)
MP ($987.29)
CO ($527.5)
Hero ($1174.59)
SB ($252.6)
BB ($310)
Preflop: Hero is Button with 9h, Th. SB posts a blind of $3.
1 fold, MP calls $6, CO raises to $16, Hero calls $16, 2 folds, MP calls $10.
Flop: ($57) 9d, 9s, 3c (3 players)
MP checks, CO checks, Hero checks.
Turn: ($57) 4c (3 players)
MP checks, CO bets $22, Hero raises to $100, MP folds, CO calls $78.
River: ($257) 7s (2 players)
CO checks, Hero bets $255, CO calls $255.
Final Pot: $767

Hero has 9h Th (three of a kind, nines).
CO has Qh Qs (two pair, queens and nines).
Outcome: Hero wins $767.

I did not know such passive creatures existed. And I was wrong. I expected to take his entire stack on such exact hands. I probably even missed value since he can't get away from a flop bet and turn bet and river bet; can he?

So much for my theory of table image.

The rest of my earnings came from observing a certain players loving tendency to always bet pot when he took the lead in the hand, on some of the scariest boards possible. So I checked to him on the river with a made flush and raised pot after his expected bet. Plz to pay my frush Mr.rivered-two-pairs!