Ricer98

Really don't like preflop. You have a garbage hand since its not suited, just muck it instead of completing. Once its raised back to you, again muck it. Your in the worst positon at the table and still have a bad hand. Pot odds are decient but calling only leads to marginal situations where we stand to lose more than we need to. I don't care for that river bet either. What do you expect him to call with that you are beating?

Yeah, i'm not really trying to justify a call here. With no read folding is probably the only logical play. I just can't put the villian on a hand and its kind of bothering me. No problems with flop or turn?

I have no problem raising here. I might raise a little less to increase the chances two pair or a weak A will call us. Probably something like 1.75-2.00. Pretty tough if you get reraised but you can probably safely fold without a read.

Ultimate Bet No-Limit Hold'em, $.50 BB (6 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver Cards)BB ($79.55)Hero ($125.50)MP ($39.55)CO ($48.20)Button ($41.50)SB ($51.95)Preflop: Hero is UTG with , . Hero calls $0.50, 3 folds, SB raises to $2, 1 fold, Hero calls $1.50.Flop: ($4.50) , , (2 players)SB checks, Hero bets $3, SB raises to $6, Hero calls $3.Turn: ($16.50) (2 players)SB bets $6, Hero calls $6.River: ($28.50) (2 players)SB bets $28.5, Hero folds.Final Pot: $28.50SB was fairly new to the table, no real reads on him yet. I'm just not sure about this

Ultimate Bet No-Limit Hold'em, $.50 BB (5 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)BB ($46.75)Hero ($53.35)MP ($47.10)Button ($50)SB ($17)Preflop: Hero is UTG with K, A. Hero raises to $1.75, MP calls $1.75, Button raises to $7.75, SB raises to $13.75, Hero????I had been at the table for around 30 min at this point. I lost a couple small pots by simply raising and continuation betting flops. My image is LAG raising around once an orbit, twice an orbit on a few occasions. The hand right before this one I raised with 99 and took it down preflop.MP -

I think turn check is the way to go. Egh, river is so close between slight overbet and check to hopefully induce a bluff. I probably lean towards check though. I don't know how often we get raised by a bare king after leading the river. When we check we atleast allow hands that can't even think about calling the chance to bluff. We might even get a king or any other full house to bet/call if we check raise.

I bet more on the flop. I'm curious why are we flat calling such a small raise on the flop, then donk leading the turn?

I guess the simplest answer is I'm trying to tell the villian I had a hand like A9, and made two pair on the river. Maybe even a hand like AK, I've seen plenty of players that aren't folding AK if they flop overs. In actuallity, I wasn't really worried about telling my own story. The story the villian was telling was not adding up in my head. I don't know why, I just didn't believe the guy for a stong hand here. The problem was though, I was afraid he could show up with a hand like J10 or 10's when I just called the river. Some type of hand that can't call a big river raise, especially o

You'd be suprised how often this tell is spot on. I think I allready explained this in a previous post, quick calls are usually a weak hand. When someone calls quick it tells me they like there hand enough to call and don't want to fold. But, they arn't even giving a seconds thought to raising. Most people that slow play big hands atleast stop and give thought to raising before just calling. Just think of your own play, do you ever insta flat call when slow playing a hand, probably not. I know I've even caught myself making quick calls with weak hands a few times. I had the same read on

My read on the turn was the villian was weak. Quick calls are so so often a sign of weakness. The villian knows he doesn't want to fold but can't even think about raising. That says weakness to me. So, I get an almost immediate call on the flop, and the turn is a complete blank. Now I get min raised after he just called the flop, I don't see this as strength because of his weak looking call on the flop. There is no way this card helped the villian unless it gave him a set with an underpair to the board. Which, I highly doubt since he called the flop. On the river, he bets $4 into a $17

Read the last sentence of my reply. I don't think its the most profitable play. I'm not worried about making the easy play. I want to make the play that maximized my wins. I think that play is checking, for the reasons stated in my original reply. You're so worried about being bluffed off the best hand if your opponent bets. You think a player capable of bluffing when checked to isn't capable of bluffing when we lead weak? There are players out there, even at .05/.10 that will bluff this river, even if you make a blocking bet. Leading weak and checking are so close to the same play. Bo

Why on earth do we want this? We make money by having weaker hands call and better hands fold, not the other way around. Bet/fold is the easy way to play this river because, as you said, a better hand should raise then we have an easy fold. Its definetly not the most profitable though, in my opinion.

I'd risk letting the flush get there in this spot. I'd check and look specifically at MP1's action. He's the one that limped in to the hand so I think he would be the one of the two to possibly have hit. MP3's hand should rarely, if ever, included a 6. I'd say hes most likely on two big cards or playing an overpair cautiously. If MP1 bets call if you think your getting odds to hit a boat. Against MP3 I would definetly call because it seems very hard for him to be beating us. If I'm reading his stats right he limps alot more than he raises. I'd take this as he'd probably have been more

The problem I have with bet/folding is I think it will give away your hand to an observant opponent. Mostly likely you would be looking to make a small 1/3-1/2 pot blocking bet right? After making near pot sized leads on the two previous streets this bet looks suspicious. The straight hits and all of a sudden we are betting substantially less. If I'm the villian, and know your not the type of player to make tricky weak plays like this with strong hands, it looks pretty obvious you don't like your hand as much any more. Not to mention with our betting pattern the only ways I see us having

Raising is horrible because we don't get called by anything we beat. We have two pair we don't need to be trying bluff off a better hand on a 4 straight board. Just call with good pot odds and hope its good.

I wouldn't say this isn't running good, just the play is sooo horrible these games are super easy to beat. I havn't run spectacular by any means and 15k hands is a fairly big sample size. I think these numbers are sustainable, at these levels. Because for the first 4k hands I was between 50-60 bb/100 and have leveled out in the 25-30 bb/100 range, with very little variance, in the last 5k hands.

I agree min raising is a used alot from weak players with big hands. When coupled with weakness shown on the flop I think the villian is just unsure or has a really weak hand in this case. Unless he hit a set with what ever the small turn card was I don't see how he has a big hand. Good point about not knowing if the villian will fold a hand like J10 for example. I had been playing rather loose aggressive and if I remember right I had taken atleast 2 pots off the villian by just firing the flop or double barrelling if his call looked weak. This lead me to believe he might have been callin

$50 and $100 NL you could probably expect alittle less since the players are probably more skilled on average. Playing 2 tables at a time of $10 and $25 NL my averages are 27.21 BB per hour, and 26.02 BB per 100 hands. Those numbers are from a little over 15k hands.

Don't have the actual hand history so I'll try to summerize as best I can. Villian is farily new to the table only a few rotations in. 0.10/0.25 NL, 6 max, on Ultimate Bet. 6 Handed, effective stack sizes right around $25.00UTG folds, hero raises to $0.85 with 8c9c, CO folds, BTN Calls, blinds foldFlop (Pot - $2.05) - J,9,X, I don't think any flush draws were out, Hero bets $1.50, Villian calls quickly Turn (Pot - $5.05) - X, don't remeber the exact card but it was a total blank, not an over didn't complete any draws, Hero bets $3.00 (I read the flop call for weak and figured another bet wou

I think you played it fine. The only thing I would do different is probably lead out on the flop. Min reraises preflop from players who are playing fairly tight usually means a big hand. For this reason alone I would lead into him. Also, we still have the button in the hand which should increase the odds that we get reraised, since hopefully one them hit atleast a Q.

95% of .10/.25 players don't though. I still think its the right play. Play at this level is loose passive, and we're only getting checked raise by a huge hand. We don't have to worry about being check raised on a bluff.

I can't speak for any of the games on other sites, but the ones on UB always seem to be good. I always tend to play way more aggressive than the rest of the table. Which, steals me a lot of blinds or dead money from limps at first. Over time though their way of combating my style seems to be start calling more often. Then, lead into me if they hit the flop, or check fold. I have no problem most session picking up atleast a buy in just by winning small pots over and over. This in turn gets my big / mediocure strength hands paid off way more than they should. Just today I had a guy call m

I think you mean too tight. I just bet the flop everytime, you'll take it down there more times than not. Don't know about everyone else but, I bet the turn here too. Granted I play extremely LAG so i've been getting called by A high and gut shot straight draws alot on these type boards. Its an easy fold to a raise, or just check the river if called. Worst thing the happens in villian calls the turn and gives a free showdown. We show QQ after firing two bullets with an overcard and get more action in later hands.

Both these ponts are somewhat valid. Yes, most players aren't getting away from AA here, BUT that doesn't mean they're committing the rest of their stack. We would need to raise the river and have the villian push to get his stack, not simply raise and have him call. When we raise the flop we build the pot so that the later is true. If / when we raise the river he simply has the option to call for his entire stack. Something I mentioned in my first post the no one else seemed to touch on. The villian has a big hand here atleast 95% of the time. A solid player is not pricing people in pr

Why would a 10 call a bet on the flop, making the pot larger, then raise the turn to "find out where its at". That'd be a horrible line to take with top pair in my opinion.