Hand History 1

Finally I have found a hand converter that lets me show the Ipoker hand histories in a workable format. The first example sees me treble up in the first hand of a Maui that I go on to win. If only all games and flops could be like this. The hand went as follows:     BetFred Poker Maui "Jackpot Sit N Go" 5/10 saw flop | saw showdown Button bargutt (1000) SB Megabollen (1000) BB demolisher1959 (1000) UTG 4in1 (1000) UTG+1 Inegeni123 (1000) MP 0rangeJuice (1000) MP xxShitOutxx (1000) MP oakesz (1000) CO-1 WViking (1000) CO Kartajana (1000) Preflop: Kartajana is in the CO with Q Q 1 fold, Inegeni123 calls 10, 2 folds, oakesz calls 10, 1 fold, Kartajana raises to 70, bargutt calls 70, Megabollen calls 65, demolisher1959 calls 60, 2 folds. Flop (300) Q T T Megabollen checks, demolisher1959 checks, Kartajana bets 100, bargutt calls 100, 1 fold, demolisher1959 calls 100. Turn (600) A demolisher1959 checks, Kartajana checks, bargutt bets 300, demolisher1959 raises to 830, Kartajana moves all-in for 830, bargutt moves all-in for 530. River (3090) 2 bargutt shows J K demolisher1959 shows T 9 Kartajana shows Q Q Kartajana wins 3090 with A full house, Queens and Tens   Despite the quality of my initial flop bet and subsequent slow play, overall it would be very hard not to win this hand in this way and there is not a great deal of criticism for either victim. Certainly it would be very hard for either to lay down post flop for Demolisher1959 and post turn for bargutt. However in the first hand I would not play either of their hands following my raise. This is my keep out of trouble approach in the early levels. The specific area I want to consider is the size of the pre-flop raise I made at the 5-10 level. Is it enough? In this case it does not matter but as I rule with premium hands I try to raise so that pocket pairs are not priced in, which would mean a raise to at least 120 in this case. I really only want one loose caller in this situation, who might be prepared to commit all their chips with top pair or worse. It does not get better than this. Ironically the reality of this game was that I still needed more luck later on to cash and ultimately win.   I will try to look at more hand histories in the next few months and will focus on mistakes and good play rather than just good fortune.   Your comments on this and future hands would be much appreciated.