I'm posting a lot of hands from todays session because I haven't played in a while due to being occupied with Battlefield 2 and Morrowind... computergames are massively -EV for sure. I felt a bit (read: very) rusty and felt I made a bunch of mistakes so I could sure use some analysis and help.

No real read.

- arilzo sitting in seat 1 with $107.10
- mmgg_71 sitting in seat 2 with $19.70
- Stoneburg sitting in seat 3 with $51.55
- Freeater sitting in seat 4 with $31.68
- Retina sitting in seat 5 with $56.80
- lase6969 sitting in seat 6 with $50.00
- kalesme sitting in seat 7 with $19.50
- squigs46 sitting in seat 8 with $74.43 [Dealer]
- Ek666 sitting in seat 9 with $49.05
- zedix78 sitting in seat 10 with $48.05

Ek666 posted the small blind - $0.25
zedix78 posted the big blind - $0.50
kalesme posted to play - $0.50
** Dealing card to Stoneburg:
arilzo folded
mmgg_71 raised - $1.00
Stoneburg called - $1.00
Freeater called - $1.00
Retina folded
lase6969 folded
kalesme folded
squigs46 folded
Ek666 folded
zedix78 called - $1.00

** Dealing the flop:
zedix78 bet - $1.00
mmgg_71 folded
Stoneburg raised - $4.00
Freeater folded
zedix78 called - $4.00

** Dealing the turn:
zedix78 checked
Stoneburg bet - $7.00
zedix78 called - $7.00

** Dealing the river:
zedix78 checked
Stoneburg bet - $10.00

Should I have checked behind? I'm hoping to fold AK, AT, A9, A4, A3 of course. What about the other streets?

the only hole card i see for you is the Qh. What suit was you Ace?

Diamond... It shows fine for me but it's the second time on this forum that I've hard someone not being able to see it. Anyway, it's NOT the heart (obviously) so it doesn't matter.

ok, thanks. i'm using firefox as my browser. maybe that's why I see it and you don't.

I've been trying things like this at the the UB $10 NL tables and don't think it's worth it. The only hand I see folding to you is a busted flush draw.

Stone... seeing as how you threw out a bet or raise 2 times w/ a flush on a board AND he called you down both times tells me that he probably aint folding... AT BEST he has crap, and it's possibly you get him to fold... Most likely not though unless you throw out a LARGE river bet, which I wouldn't do... I'd probably check behind and take my lumps...

One thing though... what happened to Mr. Muck it PF... Your in early MP w/ AQo and are calling a raise with it? Even a miniraise is bleh.. Even if he actually didn't stay in the hand, which I just noticed... I'll still say bleh...

I think your line requires a bet on the river, since it's probably only way you will win the hand.

I don't like being that agrressive on a $50 table...I might muck it on the flop, but if I raised on the flop, I would be planning to check it down from there. Not enough folding equity on these tables.

I think the guy is definitely drawing at the flush with the weak flop bet (i.e. blocking bet) and the check/call.

Therefore, you've gotta bet the river the way you played it. Wouldn't a flush raise you on the turn? Probably.

Of course, this is a VERY high variance type play, and if it backfires, its easy to feel a bit silly for ever trying it. I like it only when I'm up in chips or just in a confident place.

MVPSPORTS
I don't call raises with AQ, I limp with it in EP and raise it in LP, MP I limp behind but open raise. HOWEVER; I do NOT respect miniraises. I count a miniraise like a limp (since it is usually a limp hand doing it, ie: small pair or Axs).

My read was that he had and may or may not have a pair. Obviously this read wasn't cemented until the turn. I figured that he was sure I had the better hand and that he wouldn't call with just a pair. He folded so I think I was right.

However, I normally don't do this but I felt this was "OK" timing (not perfect) for a bluff. Also, I wasn't catching any hands and my profit for the evening was actually made up in an abnormally big part of successful bluffs.

Have to agree that I overplayed it though. Should probably have checked it down after the flop raise, but IF you bluff the turn, do you bluff the river or hope that he has AJ or something you can beat?