{"id":83,"date":"2020-03-10T16:16:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T21:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poker.pdtodd.com\/?p=83"},"modified":"2020-03-10T16:16:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T21:16:50","slug":"gargoyles-league-season-13-game-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poker.pdtodd.com\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"Gargoyle\u2019s League, Season 13, Game 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Played in Game 3 of Season 12 of Gargoyle\u2019s on Friday.  I started the game in 1st<\/sup> place, so that was pretty cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10\/J and limp\/call.  We got to the flop with 3 players.  Flop is K\/J\/x.  Joey bets like 80% of the pot and the other player folds.  I stop to think.  If Joey has a King, I don\u2019t think he\u2019d be leading for 80%.  Based on this read, his most likely hand is Q\/Q or J\/X.  I raise to like 3x of his bet and he folds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I look down at A\/Kc from the small blind.  It\u2019s raised by someone with no callers so I 3-bet and take it down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5\/6c and I decide to see a flop.  Flop is 7\/8\/9 rainbow.  I lead for pot and get 2 callers.  The Turn is a queen I believe.  I bet again and get raised.  I call.  I believe the river was inconsequential.  I check, villain bets, I call.  He shows 10\/J for the flopped better straight.  I love this game.  I think I lost the minimum here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A little while later I find myself with K\/K and 3-bet.  Called by Kyle.  I bet the entire way and Kyle calls me down.  My Kings are good and I have a nice stack that\u2019s over 20,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A\/7s and flop 2 7\u2019s.  I lead out and Joey calls.  The turn is a Queen.  I see Joey check his cards and get a flash of a Queen.  He bets.  If he had 2 pair on the flop and improved to a better 2 pair, I might be doing pretty well.  I call.  River was inconsequential.  Joey bets, I call.  He shows Q\/7 for the turned full house.  FUN GAME!  I think I lost the minimum again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I 3-bet with K\/Qc against Jim.  He folds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I lead for like 3x with Q\/Jd from the big blind.  It folds around to Jim who shoves.  As it\u2019s heads-up, I call.  He shows two black 9\u2019s.  Flop is A\/x\/x, 2 diamonds.  Not a bad flop for me.  However, I don\u2019t improve and Jim takes the hand down.  Not great as I lose about 40% of my stack and am down to 9,000 (Starting stack was 10,000).  Looking at the numbers like this, it might have been a bit of a loose call.  Let\u2019s check the odds calculator:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looks like a good call with 48% equity against 51%.  Pretty standard flip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The very next hand I\u2019m in the small blind with 7\/7.  Shardul raises to 1,600 from the button.  I call for 1,400 more.  Big blind calls for 1,200 more.  Flop is 7\/8\/3 (I think), 2 diamonds.  The board has straight and flush possibilities, but I doubt I\u2019ll be called if I bet.  I decide to check-raise and check.  It checks around.  (Face-palm).  The turn is the 6 of hearts, adding a heart flush draw to the board.  I stick to my strategy.  Joey bets 3,000 which is about 60% of the pot.  Perfect.  Shardul thinks for a minute and then calls.  Ugh.  I have 7,300 total, so even with a shove I\u2019ll only be increasing Joey by 4,300 or about 30% of the pot.  If he was drawing to either a straight or flush he\u2019s getting pretty good odds.  Joey instantly calls.  Shardul looks surprised and folds.  We show and Joey is surprised to see me with a set.  The river is the 4 of hearts\u2026 to give Joey a straight\u2026and me the boot in 21st<\/sup> place.  Ugh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to an odds calculator, Joey was only 18% to win there, so it\u2019s good that I got it all-in good, but it sucks to lose to a draw, especially for my tournament life.  I really felt like I played well, even though I didn\u2019t play a ton of hands and probably limped too many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After this game I\u2019m in 4th<\/sup> place and Joey has taken 1st<\/sup>2 months in a row.  Yes, the Joey that hit that straight against me.  He\u2019s going to be hard to catch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Played in Game 3 of Season 12 of Gargoyle\u2019s on Friday.  I started the game in 1st place, so that was pretty cool. 10\/J and limp\/call.  We got to the flop with 3 players.  Flop is K\/J\/x.  Joey bets like 80% … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-poker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5DXf1-1l","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poker.pdtodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poker.pdtodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poker.pdtodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poker.pdtodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poker.pdtodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poker.pdtodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/poker.pdtodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poker.pdtodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poker.pdtodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poker.pdtodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}