Know Your Opponents and Profit by Skrangeo
In this day and age, a poker game of your choice is at your fingertips. Point, double-click, log in, and away you go. It's a low key evening, and you find what you are looking for...several open $.50/$1.00 no-limit ring games. You log into three tables, switching back and forth. You are a tight player, so if you don't like what you see, you simply fold and switch tables. You win a few pots, lose a few pots. You run into a monster, you catch a good hand. Your results are okay but you know...it just doesn't seem like you get paid off on your monsters and you get called down on your marginal hands. What is the missing element vs how well you do in a live casino? I mean, you are playing the same style, right?
Simply put, multi-tabling will give you poker volume but will end up cutting your player reading edge. Reads are what allow players to make the proper bluffs, traps, slowplays, and getting called on things like overbets. But, with players wanting more "action", the player reads often take a backseat to multi-tasking to keep the energy and excitement levels high with two, three, or even more tables.
This weekend, I (a frequent multi-table player) decided to step back and open only one table. My goal: to make the best player reads possible, record their tendencies in my player notes, and hope to utilize that information to extract the most money possible. I opened a $.50/$1.00 no-limit full ring game, and loaded up $100. I was playing a very tight, aggressive game. Unfortunately, the cards weren't coming and I was taking more notes than I was playing. Due to this, I was able to record the player's actions to my left on this hand:
Snoopy raised in late position ($4), the button called, as did the big blind. The flop was Q78 rainbow. The BB checked, Snoopy bet out $8 into a $12 pot, the button raised to $16, the BB went all in for $45, and then Snoopy re-raised allin ($59) to push the button out. The button folded and the BB showed 9T for an open-ended straight draw while snoopy had AQ for top pair only. Two bricks fell and Snoopy took the pot. I recorded in my notes that Snoopy WAY overvalued his hand (based on the raise and check-raise all in that he then re-raised), and therefore hoped I could get in a mix with him at a later point where he would again overvalue his hand.
It didn't take long. I was in the SB with A6s and limped after it was folded around. I'm not a huge fan of Ace-small (I like it when it is suited in a multi-way pot) but was willing to take a risk against this opponent. Snoopy raised and I called. The tale of the tape.
Full Tilt Poker Game #782289345: Table Sunny Springs - $0.50/$1 - No Limit Hold'em - 11:29:58 ET - 2006/07/09
Seat 1: vertti81 ($39)
Seat 2: Bizznass14 ($106.10)
Seat 3: bigE408 ($104.70)
Seat 4: trepdogg ($44.70)
Seat 5: kracka1 ($19.45)
Seat 6: skrangeo ($105)
Seat 7: snoopy1 ($135.95)
Seat 8: Feeves ($47.75)
Seat 9: johnvoc ($36.35)
skrangeo posts the small blind of $0.50
snoopy1 has 5 seconds left to act
snoopy1 posts the big blind of $1
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to skrangeo [6d Ad]
Feeves folds
johnvoc folds
vertti81 folds
Bizznass14 folds
bigE408 folds
trepdogg folds
kracka1 folds
skrangeo calls $0.50
snoopy1 raises to $3
skrangeo calls $2
*** FLOP *** [6s Ac 7h]
skrangeo checks (I fully expect snoopy to make a continuation bet)
snoopy1 bets $5
skrangeo raises to $10 (I felt way ahead at this point and wanted to test the waters)
snoopy1 calls $5
*** TURN *** [6s Ac 7h] [3c]
skrangeo bets $92, and is all in (I ruled out him having AA, 66, or 77 because I don't think he would have risked a bet on the flop after I checked to him and taking down such a small pot. I felt he might actually have an ace, and unless he held A7, I was a HUGE favorite at this point. If he did have an ace, I highly suspected he would call my MONSTER overbet as if I was trying to buy it. If he didn't have an ace, I doubt he would probably call any more bets)
snoopy1 calls $92
skrangeo shows [6d Ad]
snoopy1 shows [Ks Ah]
*** RIVER *** [6s Ac 7h 3c] [2d]
skrangeo shows two pair, Aces and Sixes
snoopy1 shows a pair of Aces
skrangeo wins the pot ($207) with two pair, Aces and Sixes
*** SUMMARY ***Total pot $210 Rake $3Board: [6s Ac 7h 3c 2d]
Simply put, multi-tabling will give you poker volume but will end up cutting your player reading edge. Reads are what allow players to make the proper bluffs, traps, slowplays, and getting called on things like overbets. But, with players wanting more "action", the player reads often take a backseat to multi-tasking to keep the energy and excitement levels high with two, three, or even more tables.
This weekend, I (a frequent multi-table player) decided to step back and open only one table. My goal: to make the best player reads possible, record their tendencies in my player notes, and hope to utilize that information to extract the most money possible. I opened a $.50/$1.00 no-limit full ring game, and loaded up $100. I was playing a very tight, aggressive game. Unfortunately, the cards weren't coming and I was taking more notes than I was playing. Due to this, I was able to record the player's actions to my left on this hand:
Snoopy raised in late position ($4), the button called, as did the big blind. The flop was Q78 rainbow. The BB checked, Snoopy bet out $8 into a $12 pot, the button raised to $16, the BB went all in for $45, and then Snoopy re-raised allin ($59) to push the button out. The button folded and the BB showed 9T for an open-ended straight draw while snoopy had AQ for top pair only. Two bricks fell and Snoopy took the pot. I recorded in my notes that Snoopy WAY overvalued his hand (based on the raise and check-raise all in that he then re-raised), and therefore hoped I could get in a mix with him at a later point where he would again overvalue his hand.
It didn't take long. I was in the SB with A6s and limped after it was folded around. I'm not a huge fan of Ace-small (I like it when it is suited in a multi-way pot) but was willing to take a risk against this opponent. Snoopy raised and I called. The tale of the tape.
Full Tilt Poker Game #782289345: Table Sunny Springs - $0.50/$1 - No Limit Hold'em - 11:29:58 ET - 2006/07/09
Seat 1: vertti81 ($39)
Seat 2: Bizznass14 ($106.10)
Seat 3: bigE408 ($104.70)
Seat 4: trepdogg ($44.70)
Seat 5: kracka1 ($19.45)
Seat 6: skrangeo ($105)
Seat 7: snoopy1 ($135.95)
Seat 8: Feeves ($47.75)
Seat 9: johnvoc ($36.35)
skrangeo posts the small blind of $0.50
snoopy1 has 5 seconds left to act
snoopy1 posts the big blind of $1
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to skrangeo [6d Ad]
Feeves folds
johnvoc folds
vertti81 folds
Bizznass14 folds
bigE408 folds
trepdogg folds
kracka1 folds
skrangeo calls $0.50
snoopy1 raises to $3
skrangeo calls $2
*** FLOP *** [6s Ac 7h]
skrangeo checks (I fully expect snoopy to make a continuation bet)
snoopy1 bets $5
skrangeo raises to $10 (I felt way ahead at this point and wanted to test the waters)
snoopy1 calls $5
*** TURN *** [6s Ac 7h] [3c]
skrangeo bets $92, and is all in (I ruled out him having AA, 66, or 77 because I don't think he would have risked a bet on the flop after I checked to him and taking down such a small pot. I felt he might actually have an ace, and unless he held A7, I was a HUGE favorite at this point. If he did have an ace, I highly suspected he would call my MONSTER overbet as if I was trying to buy it. If he didn't have an ace, I doubt he would probably call any more bets)
snoopy1 calls $92
skrangeo shows [6d Ad]
snoopy1 shows [Ks Ah]
*** RIVER *** [6s Ac 7h 3c] [2d]
skrangeo shows two pair, Aces and Sixes
snoopy1 shows a pair of Aces
skrangeo wins the pot ($207) with two pair, Aces and Sixes
*** SUMMARY ***Total pot $210 Rake $3Board: [6s Ac 7h 3c 2d]
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