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What's Your Edge

Brian Townsend : Poker Blog

December 18, 2008

The past two days there has been some really good 25/50 and 50/100 action on FTP. I played 1.5k hands and ended up winning 20k. Not to bad which gave me a reasonable winrate of 8 bb/100. I played quite a few interesting hands throughout the two days.

Here I play a large pot against Joker-JSB. I think the river is fine against him as there are actually very few fullhouses in his range. I think hes betting the turn with a set and on the river the only boat I am really worried about is A2, 23xx, 27xx, or A2xx. So I don't mind making the river call.

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In this hand I could have played it quite a few diferent ways. Joker wasn't c-betting that much so I could have flatted and got it in on a good turn. I think shoving is fine against someone agro preflop who continuation bets any ace high flop, but against this opponent when he full pots the flop he has a stronger range. Overall I think I like a flop flat in this spot.

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A great flop for me...

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Here I make a nice call on the river. I think I played this hand really well against this opponent. Preflop is tough, but I hate just folding in spots like these.

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I think I could have found a better line than this one. Its a tough spot. I run into a huge hand. Games easy when you flop the nut straight with a flush and fullhouse redraw. He had 75% equity against me, but I can't get away from my hand at any point. I just dislike my line.

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Anyways I think I played great poker the past few days. I haven't got to many hands in as I have been really busy with things. I doubt I will play much in the next few weeks as Christmas and New Years are coming up.

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