NL100 Update; Introducing Goodeh

It is my distinct honor and pleasure to introduce my new co-blogger, Goodeh. He probably will not post as often as I do, since, as he said, he has a sick job and life that will probably keep him pretty busy, whereas I am one of the least employed people I know.

Goodeh began taking poker seriously a bit before I did and has gotten very good very quickly and is basically pretty sick at poker and life. These days he mostly prefers to play pot-limit Omaha but his analytical poker skills obviously apply to no-limit hold 'em as well.

But enough about people other than me. I just played another Happy Hour session of NL100 Rush and lost a bunch of money again. However, I was mostly psychologically and emotionally under control and I think I played decently overall.

This was the most interesting hand. I've been thinking a lot recently about how to play against the squeeze and whether or not setmining is profitable in a 3-way 3bet pot and I'm not sure about this but I think mid pocket pairs are not terrible hands to experiment with in a situation like this where there's a squeeze and a call by the original raiser. I think midpairs have decent equity in a 3way pot against a squeezer and a preflop raiser who flats the squeeze. So I experimentally call in position. Squeezer is a Russian who is 38/30 over 55 hands.

The squeezer fire fullpot with less than pot behind on the flop but I suspect he's the kind of fucker who does this with his AK and his failed squeeze air hands and his failed squeeze hands that might have caught a weak piece of that flop, like 64 or 75 or like Kc8c, so I shove over for value against those hands and as a thin bluff on the off chance that he's good enough to fold TT or JJ. He obviously isn't, and all the money goes in with me as a 9:1 dog. Not sure if I interpreted the available information correctly in formulating my read here and not sure if my play is any good even if I did.

NL100 Progress

-$506.94 / $1,000.00 after 6,744 hands