[SteveA]

I played my first no limit holdem cash game last night and tripled my money!

We all bought in with $10 in chips and the blinds were $.25/$.50.

For the first couple hours I had crap hands, but managed to pull off some bluffs with aggressive bets.

The two big hands I had were:

- calling an all in bet with an AQ suited. I won with Ace high.
- raising aggressively with bullets and calling another players all in bluff.

I also showed a couple of my aggressive bluff hands which I think helped.

[smoore]

re 20 big blinds: If I'm sitting at that table, all of my money is going in preflop when I have something I want to play. There is no room to maneuver on the flop, let alone the turn. Try a $25 buyin next time, at least that's 50BB.

re AQs: heh, well you have to know your opponent to make that call but it's probably somewhat safe in a loose game.

[TwinTowers]

I agree with everything smoore wrote. With a 50 BB and a $10 buy-in, your basically only giving yourself 20 bets. I do the same cash game with a $20 buy-in, and we can re-load once we're under $5.

Id either raise the buy-in or maybe go with .25/.25 blinds. People will bock at first, but having the same blinds isnt such a bad idea.

[dad604]

Congrats on the win. I agreed with above. $10 max buyin with $.25/.50 blind is just too small. I would go with 100 times the BB.

Just my devalued Cdn. $.02 worth.

[SteveA]

The only reason we started with $10 was because we were using quarter chips and didn't want to start with more than 40. If we had denominations we woulda started with $20.

RE: AQ, this was a call against a guy who was short stacked and I knew he had a weak hand.

[softchewy]

Originally Posted by SteveA

The only reason we started with $10 was because we were using quarter chips and didn't want to start with more than 40. If we had denominations we woulda started with $20.

RE: AQ, this was a call against a guy who was short stacked and I knew he had a weak hand.

It's a good call at the right time
I made the same all in call with AQ offsuit last night in a tourney with only 3 players left. We were both short stacked (I had him covered slightly). , and I put him on KQ or lower, no pair. This is about 2 hands after he had doubled me up (I was super short stack). So figured a little tilt maybe.
He had J10
Won the hand and then the tourney
Congrats on the win.. bet you wished your buy-in was $50 now

[SteveA]

Originally Posted by softchewy

Congrats on the win.. bet you wished your buy-in was $50 now

No I just wish I had better cards that night!

Thx,

[smoore]

Originally Posted by SteveA

RE: AQ, this was a call against a guy who was short stacked and I knew he had a weak hand.

In that case your read demanded the call, good job.

[R Deckard]

Originally Posted by smoore

In that case your read demanded the call, good job.

[hayakumode] AQ is a betting/raising hand, but rarely a calling hand, esp. to all-in. But your situation made calling the correct play. [/hayakumode]

[Note to Mods: I did not get the email error with this post.]

[ahopen78]

how about this hand?

You have recently requested your transcript of the game number 2233221604.
***** Hand History for Game 2233221604 *****
0/0 TexasHTGameTable (NL) - Sun Jun 19 21:42:17 EDT 2005
Table Table 37395 (Real Money) -- Seat 7 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: xxcammiexx ( $105.5)
Seat 2: apocchime ( $99.3)
Seat 3: bundel ( $43.2)
Seat 4: nckstradamus ( $258.25)
Seat 5: hot_sizzle7 ( $48.15)
Seat 6: pokeyg ( $141)
Seat 7: ahopen ( $174.44)
Seat 8: lkengleka ( $71)
Seat 9: student2005 ( $0)
Seat 10: BHAKEL ( $96)
lkengleka posts small blind (0.5)
BHAKEL posts big blind (1)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to ahopen [ 7d, 7c ]
xxcammiexx calls (1)
apocchime folds.
bundel raises (5) to 5
nckstradamus folds.
hot_sizzle7 folds.
pokeyg folds.
ahopen calls (5)
lkengleka folds.
BHAKEL folds.
xxcammiexx calls (4)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 7h, 6h, Ad ]
xxcammiexx checks.
bundel bets (5)
ahopen calls (5)
xxcammiexx raises (30) to 30
bundel folds.
ahopen raises (95.05) to 100.05
xxcammiexx raises (70.5) to 100.5
xxcammiexx is all-In.
ahopen calls (0.45)
** Dealing Turn ** : [ Kc ]
** Dealing River ** : [ 5h ]
Creating Main Pot with $219.5 with xxcammiexx
** Summary **
Main Pot: $219.5 | | Rake: $3
Board: [ 7h 6h Ad Kc 5h ]
xxcammiexx balance $0, lost $105.5 [ Qd Ac ] [ a pair of aces -- Ac,Ad,Kc,Qd,7h ]
apocchime balance $99.38, didn't bet (folded)
bundel balance $33.2, lost $10 (folded)
nckstradamus balance $258.25, didn't bet (folded)
hot_sizzle7 balance $48.15, didn't bet (folded)
pokeyg balance $141, didn't bet (folded)
ahopen balance $288.44, bet $105.5, collected $219.5, net +$114 [ 7d 7c ] [ three of a kind, sevens -- Ad,Kc,7d,7c,7h ]
lkengleka balance $70.5, lost $0.5 (folded)
student2005 balance $0, sits out
BHAKEL balance $95, lost $1 (folded)