Adventures in online micro stakes NLHE - play along at home!

**7-2offsuit** · 19th December 2006, 06:17 PM

No Limit Hold 'em Ring - blinds are at $0.25/$0.50

Most players (not me - $25 puss-suit wearing cheapskate here) have bought in for $50, and the table has been playing reasonably sensibly for the last 90 minutes or so, but most flops have been contested and rarely does a SPFR succeed in just nicking the blinds. Everyone seems to like playing poker post flop and we've seen some interesting plays and some big hands. We've only had one AI monkey (who was pushing for $50 for what seemed every hand) and he got lucky (called by AK and JJ - he had KQ and made a straight), tripled up and left next hand. SPFR here is between 3xBB and 5xBB.

Villain has been playing few hands, nearly always coming in for a raise and playing smallball post flop. Although he won some nice pots early doors, recently he has taken a bit of a battering, having to fold what he claims was QQ when his C-bet on an Ace-high flop was re-raised (his opponent in that one showed AQ), lost a race with another QQ against a shortstack's AI re-raise (opponent had AKs and flopped an Ace), folded what he claims was AJs to a pre-flop RR from the CO with AK (shown), and after losing with the flopped nut straight (having called a PFR with AJ to see a KQT flop) against KK which pushed his flop lead-out and filled on the River he's dropped about $50 of his original profit and is now about $5 in the red.

My opponents definitely have me pegged as conservative. AK, KK and QQ are the only hands I've tabled/chosen to show thus far. I may have therefore been getting out of hand on occasion representing flushes that were never there and suchlike but I've not yet had to take a losing hand to showdown. Although I haven't tabled any losers, I've dropped some $ on a few hands recently when I've had to back down in the face of apparent strength. I'm up a shade over $15 from a high of +$45.

EP: $58.43
MP 1 (Villain) $45.16
MP 2: $71.95
CO: $25.40
Button: (Hero!) $41.23
SB: $77.95
BB: $50.00
UTG: $35.25
UTG+1: $37.90

My hole cards - Ac Ts

UTG folds
UTG+1 folds
EP limps
Villain raises to $2
MP 2 calls $2 (Seems OK. This was the QQ vs AQ guy from earlier)
CO folds
Button calls $2 (Hero. Me. Rock.)
SB calls $2 (Seems to call everything and play ATC. Sees about 90% of flops. Got very lucky early doors)
BB calls $2 (No info on this guy other than he chose to wait for the BB)
EP calls $2 (Also seems an OK player. First time I've seen him limp in EP and I almost certainly fold if he raises here)

Pot size = $12. Five callers was very unusual for this table. I could see fireworks coming...

Dealing flop [Ad 8h Td]

SB checks
BB checks
EP checks
Villain bets $4
MP2 calls $4
CO folds

We.....?

**PokerWoody** · 19th December 2006, 06:40 PM

I fold preflop. As played I make it $22 and call a push/get the rest in on any next card.

**7-2offsuit** · 19th December 2006, 07:29 PM

I flat out agree that folding pre-flop is without question the sensible play here, especially considering (from what I've seen) the narrowness of our Villain's range to open from that position.

Perhaps I'd had a brain fart or something. That, or watching too much of Sammy Farha at work...

**jjh** · 20th December 2006, 07:31 AM

Well you're in the hand now and probably have the best hand on the table right now after the flop (90% sure of that...)

Flush draw is a danger, as is a J, Q or K as someone might make a better two pair considering there was a pre flop raise.

I'd raise £20 and if you get raised, move all in and hope your two pair doesn't get beaten by a better two pair with two cards to come or a flush- many players with flush draw will call a raise here, and once they've called to see the turn, you're gonna have to push and hope it stays nice for you!