Rhodeman77
Straight Flush
My regular home game crew has been playing on pokernow.com. It works well for out group since we play a rotation of Hold'em and PLO and those are the only games offered. it is a free site and doesn't have a rake. It also had a recent upgrade to allow video chat through the website which work decently.
We are several hours into the session. There have been some big hands already. Hero (me) and Villain have clashed several times. The first time Hero had his KK cracked by A4ss when Villain jammed with his flush draw on the turn and hit his Ace to bust Hero. Hero later double through Villain when we both flopped a set and turned a boat.
The game allows rebuys up to the big stack and there have been several $500 rebuys making the game pretty deep for a $1/1 game.
This hands takes place in Hold'em, most of the bigger hands with this Villain do as he is much more comfortable in Hold'em than PLO. Caveman (Villain) is a LAG!!!!! He is very loose aggressive preflop and on the flop, but doesn't usually stack off or shove with complete air. Though top pair is sometimes enough for him depending on who he is going against and if he feels they are on tilt, or if Caveman is on tilt. He is much more willing to shove short stacks (anything less than a full $200) buy-in with just about anything.
Caveman rebuilt his stack shortly before this hand when he flopped a full house with JJ on a 1010J flop and TK couldn't get away from KK doubling him up.
Hero is in the BB with
($1150)
Caveman ($900) is UTG+1 and opens to $10 after UTG folds.
There are 4 callers from the field including the Button before it gets to Hero.
Most of the Field players have at lest $500 stacks, nobody is short stacked.
Does Hero call, raise, or fold? If raising to how much?
Note about how the table is playing at this point:
There was a hand last orbit where Caveman had opened to $5 from UTG and gotten 2 callers before it got to me. I raised to $25 from the SB with
the BB (nit that is not used to playing these stakes) cold called RED FLAG!!!!! Caveman called and so did both of the initial $5 callers. Flop was 556. Action checked through on the flop. Turn was a 6 and Nit bet $60, Caveman called and the rest of us folded. River was a 3 and they checked down. Nit showed QQ and it was good. We didn't get to see Caveman's hand. So players are laying in the weeds and not scared to call 3 bets when Caveman opens knowing we are all looking to play pots with him. After the hand the NIT texts me asking if I had AK which I said yes! lol
He respects my 3 bets enough that he didn't want to risk running into Aces or Kings, or at least and AK on the flop if he 4 bet.
We have at least a decade of playing home and casino games together. Most of the players play or deal in my regular home game. So we have a good understanding of each others games for the most part.
We are several hours into the session. There have been some big hands already. Hero (me) and Villain have clashed several times. The first time Hero had his KK cracked by A4ss when Villain jammed with his flush draw on the turn and hit his Ace to bust Hero. Hero later double through Villain when we both flopped a set and turned a boat.
The game allows rebuys up to the big stack and there have been several $500 rebuys making the game pretty deep for a $1/1 game.
This hands takes place in Hold'em, most of the bigger hands with this Villain do as he is much more comfortable in Hold'em than PLO. Caveman (Villain) is a LAG!!!!! He is very loose aggressive preflop and on the flop, but doesn't usually stack off or shove with complete air. Though top pair is sometimes enough for him depending on who he is going against and if he feels they are on tilt, or if Caveman is on tilt. He is much more willing to shove short stacks (anything less than a full $200) buy-in with just about anything.
Caveman rebuilt his stack shortly before this hand when he flopped a full house with JJ on a 1010J flop and TK couldn't get away from KK doubling him up.
Hero is in the BB with
($1150)Caveman ($900) is UTG+1 and opens to $10 after UTG folds.
There are 4 callers from the field including the Button before it gets to Hero.
Most of the Field players have at lest $500 stacks, nobody is short stacked.
Does Hero call, raise, or fold? If raising to how much?
Note about how the table is playing at this point:
There was a hand last orbit where Caveman had opened to $5 from UTG and gotten 2 callers before it got to me. I raised to $25 from the SB with
the BB (nit that is not used to playing these stakes) cold called RED FLAG!!!!! Caveman called and so did both of the initial $5 callers. Flop was 556. Action checked through on the flop. Turn was a 6 and Nit bet $60, Caveman called and the rest of us folded. River was a 3 and they checked down. Nit showed QQ and it was good. We didn't get to see Caveman's hand. So players are laying in the weeds and not scared to call 3 bets when Caveman opens knowing we are all looking to play pots with him. After the hand the NIT texts me asking if I had AK which I said yes! lolHe respects my 3 bets enough that he didn't want to risk running into Aces or Kings, or at least and AK on the flop if he 4 bet.
We have at least a decade of playing home and casino games together. Most of the players play or deal in my regular home game. So we have a good understanding of each others games for the most part.
and action is on Hero first to act.
