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I would raise pf and bet each street and fold to a raise on any street w/out a read on the raiser.Aseem

Hero is UTG+1 with K K.BB seemed to be tight at first, but then I saw him open-limp A7o UTG and spew a little postflop (i.e. he can be somewhat aggressive). He also bets his draws but the hand I saw, he just called a raise, but he just had ace-high with a flush draw on the turn. He is definitely not a maniac or a LAG, though. I hadn't seen him checkraise yet.Also, it should be noted that in this game, almost every player was playing pretty loose in the blinds, especially the big blind...., Hero opens, ..., BB calls.(4.5 SB, 2 plrs) Q 6 6BB checks, Hero bets, BB raises, Hero calls.Decide not to

30/60 ringHero is UTG+1 with J J.CO is a thinking, albeit sometimes stubborn, TAG.Button is loose and stubborn and *slightly* aggro but often passive...., Hero raises, ..., CO three-bets, Button cold-calls, ..., Hero calls.(7.5 sb, 3 plrs) Q 9 3Hero checks, CO bets, Button calls, Hero raises, CO calls, Button calls.(6.5 bb, 3 plrs) 3Hero bets, CO folds, Button calls.(8.5 BB, 2 plrs) 6Hero ... bet/folds bet/calls check/calls My normal line is to bet/fold, but there are some abnormal factors to consider: anti-tilt reasons... bet/calling or check/calling and being good is way good for confidenc

I don't follow any hand chart, but I guess I learned mostly from SSHE (which also advises to fold ATo and KJo in the BB) and good posters from the old days like Smsah, Wrto, Iceman, etc.Aseem

Ah good catch. I was reacting to the 87s -- which I do fold -- and not the QJs -- which I do call. But on the flip side, I am pretty tight out of my BB in full ring. I do not loosen up nearly as much in the blinds during ring games as I do during short handed, in disagreement with what you wrote in the other thread about them being essentially the same. This is because blinds come around almost half as often, and also I think it's a by-product of my game selection (where early position folding almost every hand is certainly not the norm). I also give MP raises way more credit than CO/Button,

no. Not multiway enough. I can try to explain more if you want, but a good example to think of is that even if you flop a flush/oes draw, you are breaking even putting in money at 33% equity with two other players, and losing money if one player drops out (balance this out with the small dead money in the pot). And you will also flop a weak draw (gutshot, bottom/second pair vs overpair/toppair, etc.) more often than two pair or better, so you can't count on just calling to hit two pair or better (and that is also a really bad reason to call getting only 5-to-1). And weak position in a shorthan

r u 4 real? your joking right? uh, no. I'm sorry, it's not the least bit close to me.It's close in a short-handed game, or if it was the Button or a loose CO that opened, but not in a ring game where MP opens.If you think I'm joking, I fold KJo and ATo there too.Aseem(edited multiple times because BB code pwns me. )

edit: since my post was kind of long, i bolded the summary parts.preflop call is pretty damn shitty. it really is. so much reverse domination possibility, crappy top pair value against a preflop raiser, not enough multiway for the straight value, no suited value, and terrible position in a shorthanded pot to top it off.i would also cr the flop. it's very rare that the flop gets checked through so i am never more worried about that, but it's more just to push an edge further. sure betting out has its benefit in that the preflop raiser may raise and make it incorrect for the button to cold-call

Y'all take it too literally. I edited it. =DAseem

Thanks for correcting me, I edited and still reflect fold without reads but it's close. But I do think it's a fold.Aseem

You will take offense to this post, and you should, but you should also keep an open mind and realize that you suck at (EDIT: small stakes limit hold 'em) poker... for now. This hand was absolutely butchered to a horrendous extent, and if this is representative of your normal play (EDIT: at small stakes limit hold 'em), you are almost definitely a losing or break-even player (EDIT: at small stakes limit hold 'em). If your results don't show it, your sample size probably isn't statistically significant.Do yourself a favor and search Amazon for "Small Stakes Hold 'em" by Ed Miller. Purchase it,

This is an easy fold, even at six max, at all but the most laggy of games. Really, it's a fold.AseemP.S. If it were A-A-6 (two aces and a six instead of two sixes and an ace), it's MUCH closer.*** EDIT ***Totally my bad, I thought flop was A-6-6.This is always kind of close and tough and heavily read-dependent, because a ton of donkeys raise any pocket pair (but usually 77+) on this flop, and a hand like that makes heavy sense given the preflop cold-call. Unfortunately, many straightforward players also raise A-x here, which also makes sense given the preflop cold-call.On the one hand, you hav

lol. there's a few more people in the hand. =)Try pokerstoving some combinations. Worst case, give QQ+, AK to MP3 and you can give random to others (this is fine b/c while they would fold their worst hands, they would raise their best hands).And then realize that MP3 having QQ+, AK is your *worst* case.AseemP.S. To clarify, MP3 having QQ+, AK is also your worst case because you have no reason to think his ONE raise preflop means just that. You can't just call because you fear he may cap if you three-bet.

I'm not very satisfied with the idea of calling the flop and folding a heart turn / calling down otherwise, but I guess it's the best option for now.And Abba, I think you were being sarcastic but if not, I don't c/f the flop because no one has shown any strength yet. =) But if a person on my right had bet out, I do fold this flop normally. Same with if I am cr'ed on this flop. Just what makes this hand tough is that the person doing the cr'ing is LAG.Aseem

Hi all, Read through the responses but I don't agree with a lot of them. Let me offer my own perspective and reasoning. Preflop: three-bet, not that close. You're simply pushing an equity edge. And your hand might be best. I really don't think flat-calling is correct, and I don't think it's close. In any game where six people go to the flop, your AQs here has monstrous equity and you really are giving up money by not three-betting.And what's this about "against an EP raiser"?? The guy is in the hijack. And there are three limpers before him.And on that note, I think you guys are misap

Just to chime in, imo this is the best advice in the thread. I heavily agree 99999% with it.With that said, this advice implies that you should be comfortable in both, so if you're not comfortable playing sh, focus on it for a while.It's all about game selection.Aseem hehehehe. also really freaking good advice. =)Aseem

Haha, it's really tough communicating this hand because you can't just assume that villian has any two cards. I think I unknowingly exxagerated the maniacal part of villian... if I was to estimate his stats, he probably played 40-ish% of hands preflop and did check/fold some flops, so it's not like he was a "bet-raise-every-hand-arrrrrrrr-in" type player. =DBah, I kind of regret posting this because I don't want to come across as stubborn and unwilling to accept that I'm wrong, but I really think it's waaaay closer than you guys are giving it credit for. It really does border between spewing a

K awesome post. I agree with almost everytihng you wrote. I too really really really <3 maniacs passionately and love playing against them and normally I would take a similar line if the situation were slightly less marginal.I think it's a little close here but I see what you're saying.Thanks,Aseem

What? It's not THAT easy of a decision as to say "just call down all the way". You know that if we're behind we're drawing almost dead?Even maniacs get hands sometimes... any bare king beats me, any two pair beats me, a set of course, and in the best case he has a flush draw which will still get there a good amount of time + any possible overcard / two pair outs he might have.I mean I know it's a decent size pot and he's a maniac, but it's not THIS easy. You would be putting in 2.5 BB more to see a showdown when you could potentially be drawing virtually dead. I don't like it.(But I don't like

Hi all,Recently took a shot at a really juicy 30/60 game. A few hands came up where I was unsure if I was actually making the correct play or if I was playing too weak/tight on these hands.Hero is UTG+1 with black JJ.BB is a huge super-bluffing maniac. He frequently has cr'ed the turn against me with king high no draw and has capped 55 on an AA3 flop against me, etc.UTG raises, Hero three-bets, ..., Button cold-calls, SB folds, BB cold-calls, UTG calls.(12 sb) K 10 6 (all hearts)BB checks, UTG checks, Hero bets, Button folds, BB checkraises, UTG folds, Hero folds.Thoughts?I think my read shoul

Chamonyx, I don't follow the logic of either statement. Can you explain?Multiway I see less value in a raise because I have a relatively weaker hand. If we're assuming that the pot is the same (e.g. no raise preflop) and the flop was instead four- or five-way, why would you raise this hand on such a dry board? The chances of being up against a set or two pair are higher, and you would want others to call with worse low draws.(Note my key assumption that the pot were the same size... if I had raised and the five people were in, the pot would be roughly $200, making me more likely to play aggres

i see. the party monster would have rejected you. =(aseem

Yeah I agree that calling is "risky" in the sense that I can't call any river bet if the board bricks, but raising is "risky" in the obvious way when I could get to see a cheaper river card.As for your edit idea, just note that I would only have about $660 left and the pot would be $720 if checked to me.Aseem

wtf is wrong with you, why didn't you play this hand a few weeks ago before party pulled out. you would have gotten like 50000% rakeback with the monster jackpot.well, that's what you get for not giving the party monster your soul so you could play there. aseem

i'm at that other school "down the street". =DAseem