HOW TO FOLD KK

I thought about posting a few times in the last week, but then thought "I don't have enough to say, or anything great to say." Then I decided, I just need to post and the great posts will work themselves in.

Played a lot of poker over the weekend. Had a couple of terrible hands where I lost $15 or more on each one while playing cash games. At one point Saturday, I was down 2 buy ins but managed to come back to only a 1/2buy in loss for Saturnday. This hand helped me come back nicely:

Dealt to jamyhawk [9s 9d]
Seat 5: folds
Seat 6: calls $0.25
Seat 7: folds
jamyhawk: raises $0.50 to $0.75
Seat 9: folds
Seat 1: folds
Seat 2: calls $0.75
Seat 3: calls $0.65
Seat 4: folds
Seat 6: calls $0.50
*** FLOP *** [9c 3c As]
Seat 3: checks
Seat 6: checks
jamyhawk: bets $0.50
Seat 2: folds
Seat 3: raises $1.75 to $2.25
Seat 6: calls $2.25
jamyhawk: raises $3.75 to $6
Seat 3: calls $3.75
Seat 6: calls $3.75
*** TURN *** [9c 3c As] [9h]
Seat 3: bets $6.30 and is all-in
Seat 6: folds
jamyhawk: calls $6.30
*** RIVER *** [9c 3c As 9h] [7s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Seat 3: shows [Kd Ad] (two pair, Aces and Nines)
jamyhawk: shows [9s 9d] (four of a kind, Nines)
jamyhawk collected $32.25 from pot

It's amazing how many players online will shove all in with TPTK. Or worse even, I saw several shoves this weekend with Ace high looking for turn or river help just to make a pair. It works for me; that is, when I can remember to stay patient.

Another big pot (for my Buy in's) I took was when I had AA and the flop came QQ7. I bet a continuation bet, then a turn bet and my opponent just called both bets. An A hit the river to give me the boat, I shoved all in and to my delight, my opponent had been slow playing with Q3. Had he pushed on the flop or turn, I may have folded.

I played a few tournaments. Most notably an 8.80 buy in Double shootout 6max with 36 players. With 2 people left, we chopped the pot: 2/3 ($160) to me and 1/3 ($75) to my opponent. Overall for the weekend I finished up on both tournament play and cash tables. I just need to keep building my bankroll so I can move up to bigger buy ins.

WSOP began. I don't usually follow the action closely until the TV coverage starts airing, but this year I am enjoying the posts of fellow bloggers and plan to "tune in" through their posts. Click on the LINKS TO MAKE YOU GO ALL IN for great coverage. I will be adding more links every week as I find them.

Stay Patient....