I am really enjoying my time spent playing cash games. I feel like I am really improving my game evey day as I had a long hiatus from cash games when I was playing an absolute ton of tournaments. I want to let u guys in on some of my thinking on my hands so I will post a hand that I played and detail my thinking.


***** Hand History for Game 3551309072 *****
$600 NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, February 14, 00:19:00 EDT 2006
Table Table 68302 (6 max) (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: battman1219 ( $1420.90 )
Seat 2: ilikeaces86x ( $815 )
Seat 4: Tockken ( $1122.46 )
Seat 5: mjjrunit ( $245.68 )
Seat 6: txsfldm ( $119 )
Seat 3: uscgrad1991 ( $628.80 )
Tockken posts small blind [$3].
mjjrunit posts big blind [$6].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to ilikeaces86x [ Qc Qs ]

txsfldm folds.
battman1219 calls [$6].
ilikeaces86x raises [$25].
My standard raise is $20 and I usually add a BB($6) for ever limper.

uscgrad1991 calls [$25].
uscgrad1991 is a fairly tight player and I would say for him to call this raise he would have to have AJ+ 88+

Tockken folds.
mjjrunit folds
battman1219 folds.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6d, Qd, 4s ]
Great flop for my hand as I flop the nuts! There are some cards that I don't want to see hit the turn tho because it is very possible for him to hold AdJD or a similar hand. I go ahead and bet 2/3 the pot to encourage the pot to build and also to define his hand.
ilikeaces86x bets [$45].
uscgrad1991 raises [$120].
This is great as I am fairly confident that he is fairly confident with his hand. At this time I put him on Ax of diamonds, AQ or a slowplayed KK or AA which is very possible at these stakes. I want to trap him into giving me his whole stack and if I 3 bet here he may be able to get away from a one pair hand. I decide the best move is to just flat call.

ilikeaces86x calls [$75].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4c ]
I surve my options and decide that leading for somewhere around 1/2 the pot is the best option. A lot of times people will push this turn when u lead into them and they have AQ KK or AA.
ilikeaces86x bets [$150].
uscgrad1991 is all-In.
ilikeaces86x calls [$333.80].(I got him
** Dealing River ** [ Ts ]
ilikeaces86x shows [ Qc, Qs ] a full house, Queens full of fours.
uscgrad1991 doesn't show [ Ad, Qh ] two pairs, queens and fours.
ilikeaces86x wins $1269.60 from the main pot with a full house, Queens full of fours.

I was a little off with my read at the time. I was fairly confident that he slowplayed AA or KK but he ended up having Ad, Qh. Hope it was fun for you guys to walk thru a hand.