Monday
February 08, 2010
Well, it would seem that we have managed to adjust to the latest Full Tilt software upgrade, so it is time to recap what has gone down since February 2nd, when the service was temporarily interrupted. Cole South came out like he was on fire, and Brian Hastings won almost half a million dollar. The big news, however, is that PostflopAction continued his torrid start to the year, winning $994K in a little more than 6000 hands.
At the other end of the leader board we can see that Ziigmund had a really awful week, dropping over $1.1M. If you read the first January summary report, you could see that he had won the same amount in that month, so now he is back where he started the year.
We are still in the process of re-compiling the hands of these sessions, so I might very well have missed some hands that are not yet been put into the database, but regardless of this, I have found some hands from the week’s action that I think you will find interesting.
PostflopAction flops a set against durrrr’s overpair and flush draw and wins a $235K pot.
This hand is another example of one player flopping a big hand, while the other has a big draw. It is impossible for durrrr to get away from the hand in this spot because PostflopAction’s raise on the flop could be made on such a wide range on hands. Best case scenario for durrrr, he is ahead in addition to having a better draw. Even if PostflopAction has flopped top two pairs, durrrr will be a favorite to improve and win the pot in the end. I am sure that durrrr spent about half a second before shoving, and to me it is an obvious decision.
Even now, in what is pretty much the worst case scenario, durrrr was not even a 2-1 underdog, but the turn left him with one single winner and that was not enough to take down the pot.
PostflopAction flops a better hand and better draw than Urindanger to win a $164K pot.
In PostflopAction’s second largest pot of these sessions, the most interesting decisions took place before the flop. It might seem strange to some that the preflop betting would go to five bets with these hands, but playing heads up with hands that are likely to hit a piece of most flops it is not so unusual.
Preflop, it might seem as though Urindanger is in a bad spot since both his potential flush draws are dominated by his opponent, but the fact is that PostflopAction is only a marginal favorite. That should say a little about the potential of hands with connectors like the one Urindanger has, and also show why the 5-bet is a reasonable line. Of course, when the flop comes, and he will mainly have to rely on the flush draws, he is on trouble, but that is just one of many possible outcomes. This time PostflopAction was an 85% favorite on the flop, and there was no suckout coming, so he could see his hot streak continue.
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