Some Funny Bodog Hands

Some Funny Hands

Here are some good examples of how good the Bodog games are:

Hand 1:

Effective Stacks $300
Villain raises to $11 UTG
Hero looks at QQ and re-raises to $40
Button calls $40
UTG calls

Pot::$125

Flop: 9dQd2d

UTG checks
Hero goes all in for $260
Button folds
Villain thinks…thinks….thinks…calls with 6s6h

Hand 2:

Effective stacks $450

We have been playing heads up for about 30 hands

Villain limps the button
Hero raises to $9 with 8h7h
Villain calls $9

Flop: 6h5d4s

Villain over bets the pot with a $30 bet
Hero min-raises to $60
Villain min-raises to $90
Hero min-raises to $120
Villain min-raises to $150
Hero min-raises to $180
Villain calls

Turn Ac

I hadn’t had enough min-raising yet so:

Hero bets $35
Villain goes all in
Hero calls

Villain shows 99

So, as you can see the Bodog games are amazing. I’ve been playing very well the last couple days and have had some great results. I think I’ve slowed down just enough that I’m not making very many bad bluffs, but not enough so they stop giving me action. I was up about $2500 since my last post until the last session I played. It was a pretty rough session but I had climbed my way near even mostly thanks to a player who gave me more than half of his $1300 stack. He was owning the rest of the table but I knew exactly how to induce him to go broke with his one pair hands even when we were 200+ bbs deep.

I was excited that the table broke and I was able to play him heads up. We both had around $1200 in our stacks, which is about 4 buyins. I told Jared that I was probably going to play one of the deepest pots in my career pretty soon; as I knew I could get him to put it all in even that deep. I was correct as we played the following pot:

Effective stacks:
$1200

Villain limps button
Hero raises to $15 with QQ

Flop comes 3d3hjs
Hero Bets $22
Villain raises to $44

This is what he did on any hand he wanted to play. He could have a J, a smaller pair, or a 3.
Hero calls

Turn Q

When that card hit I yelled over to Jared “Here comes the 8 buyin pot!”

Hero bets $111
Villain raises to $300

I know he has a 3 and won't fold so:

Hero raises all in
Villain calls with 93o

River: 3

An 8 buyin pot is definitely the deepest I have ever played and to lose it to a one outer was a pretty big shock. My reaction was a half yell half laugh. It was really too big of an outdraw to really put me on tilt. It’s never been the big things that set me off, just a lot of little things over and over again. The way I see it is that I will probably never see an outdraw in a cash game that bad for the rest of my life. The chance that I play an 8 buyin pot and have them dead to one card in the deck is pretty unlikely. So I’m glad that I got that out of the way now. There is obviously a big risk when you decide to play anyone heads up that deep, but I did it knowing I had a huge edge. I got my money in just about as good as you can, there’s not much more you can ask for in poker. It took me like two minutes to move on.

Even after losing a $2400 pot I am still up $1069 in 4592 hands this week. We are finishing up the details for our WSOP house, so I want to get in as much poker as possible for the next 2 months so I can play all the events that I want. I’m shooting for about $100 a day in rakeback, so if I can do that and keep winning at a similar rate I should be in great shape the next few months.

Bankroll: $12713
Hands played this week: 4592
Bonus cleared this week: 0
Hands played this month: 14723
Bonus/rakeback this month: $150