Holiday Grind

Hi folks, had 3 days off work this week and by god did I make the most of it. Played 6k hands so far, with the main grind session on Thursday evening still to go. This is ample good as it means I should bink 8k hands in 3 days. This is awesome for a 9-5 working man.

So Titan poker......what can I say, awesome promos. They just announced lord of the grind. This should rate to net me $10 a month cash and $140 bonus each month. This is on top of my cashback from TPs and is obv awesome news. All I have to do is accrue 250pts for 10 days a month to get $10+$90 bonus or 20days for $10+$140. This will replace my first deposit bonus in March and is just fantastic.

So the last couple of days have been intermingled with winning and losing sessions. Overall am winning 6 BI which is always good news. Rebuilt my roll after doomswitch time and am currently sat on 25BI which whilst being bad news is better news than before. Was dangerously close to having to move down.

So a few hands that were super interesting IMO.

Villain is 17/11/4.8 with a 9% EP open, 85% cbet, 22 W%SD, 44 W%$SD , after a few tag regs flat I decide not to 3bet with JJ as they are capable of 4betting mid PPs and AQ here as a bluff and don't really want to be put to a tough decision + I have position so don't mind seeing a flop multiway.

So otf when I am checked to it is an obv bet for value, wanting AX and suited broadways to surrender their equity whilst getting value from smaller PPs and JT AT as well as some open enders/gutter balls.

OTT top pair pairs and he checks again, at this point I am fairly sure he has a mid PP 66 77 or 99 although he could be taking a weird line with QQ. One of my grinding group thinks checking back the turn was a mistake, I was wanting to control the size of the pot + get another street of value from his mid  PPs but at the same time a bet here would make it super hard for an over pair to barrel the river and I could even turn JJ into a bluff and rep Tx to get him off QQ+ OTR.

The river I think is a fairly standard call, not super happy about it but it's pretty hard for him to have Tx except for AT which is only 8 Combo's and he has plenty of mid-PPs. Thoughts?


NB. Sizing OTF, I was tempted to go a little bigger. Like 13bbs but didn't want to bloat the pot so opted for a slightly smaller sizing.



IPoker, $0.05/$0.10 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 9 Players
LeggoPoker.com Hand History Converter

MP1: $9.20
MP2: $10.71
CO: $19.43
Hero (BTN): $15.54
SB: $4
BB: $4.45
UTG: $11.22
UTG+1: $11.41
UTG+2: $15.87

Pre-Flop: Jc Jh dealt to Hero (BTN)
UTG raises to $0.35, UTG+1 calls $0.35, UTG+2 calls $0.35, 3 folds, Hero calls $0.35, SB calls $0.30, BB folds

Flop: ($1.85) 5h Ts 8d (5 Players)
SB checks, UTG checks, UTG+1 checks, UTG+2 checks, Hero bets $1, SB folds, UTG calls $1, 2 folds

Turn: ($3.85) Th (2 Players)
UTG checks, Hero checks

River: ($3.85) 4h (2 Players)
UTG bets $2, Hero calls $2