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Don't be so hard on yourself, your post wasn't that long.

This guy is 25/1/.5 after 250 hands.PokerStars 0.50/1.00 Hold'em (9 handed) converterPreflop: Hero is SB with [Jc], [Jd]. 7 folds, BB calls.Flop: (4 SB) [Qh], [7h], [6s] (2 players)Hero bets, Hero folds.Final Pot: 3.50 BBGood bet/fold in a small pot, or should I call down since it was HU to flop?Bonus question: At about what AF should I start to consider calling down here instead of bet/fold?

Take the free card.

Not in cash games, unless you've seen the cards of your opponents and it's AA. Yes, let's. There is 807$ in the pot, assuming nobody else calls. I don't know what my stack size is, but I call the 500 and even reraise all in if I have enough to get out all the other players.I have no reads but if the 500$ guy had aces, he wouldn't have done that. And if he has aces, well, I still have 2 outs (plus the occasional straight or flush). And as the usual fish is afraid of losing so much money, by reraising all in, I could even make some AK/QQ fold, and maybe even those AA you're so afraid of ("I alwa

Don't be results based in your thinking. You can never put an opponent on 2 exact cards from just preflop actions alone (and rarely from postflop actions), but you can put them on a range of hands. In situation 2, it is +EV to push all in, even if he has aces , simply because we are a favorite against the range of hands he could hold. Please don't be one of those people who "stares into their soul" and figures out exactly what they have either. If you think it's -EV to push here and get called by aces, then it's -EV to push and get called by 23o and have the flop come 333. That's results

This just happened a minute ago..PF: Hero has Ah5h in bbCouple limps, donk raises, couple calls, hero calls.Flop: A84, 1 heart.check, check, check, donk bets, all call.Turn: 7hHero checks, EP wakes up and bets, donk calls, couple folds, hero raises, EP 3-bets, donk folds..Rest of hand irrelevent, but A7 hit 2 pair and won.After the hand --Donk: Man, I laid down queens, that was tough.Donk2: Very good laydown.

Me tooWhy.Honestly? Because I don't know how to play against agressive players. But this is what i was thinking...You're certain he's going to fold to one bet on the turn after raising on 2 streets? Looks like your/weber's lines assume you're ahead the whole way and are looking to extract max $$.I guess I have no doubt I'm ahead until he raises the turn, then I feel wa/wb and want to see showdown cheap.How can you "feel" wa/wb? wa/wb is dependant on the cards you hold and board, not a feeling. And yes, aggressive players will raise this flop with QQ/JJ and fold on the turn if they are 3-bet

Given his PFR% is 10, yes.Any line here that advocates folding on any street is terrible. I think he's 3-betting PF with at least AA-KK, AK, and AQs. Given this range, you are behind only about 10% of the time. Also, assuming he will only raise the river with AK or better, he is likely to raise the river 15% of the time. Why fold?I'd give him a pf 3-bet range of AA-JJ, AK, AQs (AQs is likely a call though, not a raise). So we're ahead about what, 2/3 of the time? The only problem is, when we're ahead and get aggressive here, we make it easy for him to fold. When we're behind and get agg

hotbacon, I like the idea of c/c the turn and b/f the river. I had not considered that. What do others think of that line?And yeah, I should have c/r the flop. I thought betting might make him define his hand, but I see now that it doesn't really get me any info. c/r would probably help me to define his hand better while getting more bets in when I'm ahead.

I'm kind of lost on hands like these. It seems like I'm not making as much as I should when I'm ahead, and I lose a lot when behind.Villian is 20/10/3 after about 40 hands, not enough to call it a concrete read.PokerStars 0.50/1.00 Hold'em (9 handed) converterPreflop: Hero is MP2 with [Ah], [Kd]. 3 folds, Hero calls.Flop: (7.50 SB) [Ks], [5h], [4d] (2 players)Hero bets, Hero calls.Turn: (5.75 BB) [9d] (2 players)Hero checks, Button bets, Hero calls.River: (7.75 BB) [Jh] (2 players)Hero checks with the intention of calling a bet.Final Pot: 7.75 BBFinal Pot: 7.75 BBI was thinking gaybet/fold

Actuary, who is that chick in your avatar?

I'm no PLO expert, but looks ok to me. You could be an underdog on the flop though, to a lot of hands really. The fact that he called down with the naked flush draw is amazing though.

I don't think you can rule out a set by the bb just because he's betting this hard.. Only tricky players would try to call the flop and c/r the turn with a set oop. Trust me, it's not a good money making play. For every time it works and you pick up .5BB extra, there is a time it doesn't work and you lose 1.5BB. Unless you know BB to be tricky, don't rule out JJ or 33.Also, that should have been 3-bet pf. Who cares if AK is a "drawing hand". I refer you to SSHE p.239:"Thinking about preflop hands in terms of 'drawing' hands and 'made' hands is not helpful. Instead, especially in the mul

I would have to know more about the hand...in particular what mynewbuddy's betting patterns were when that second 7 came on the board and what otherguy did (call, raise, etc.) before we could determine if this is a fish statement or not. There is just too much incomplete information here.The pot going into the river was like 6BB. Nothing huge, but there was some action.. And this was .5/1 LHE, I've never seen a raise/fold-to-3 on the river at this limit, through like 30k hands.

Umm, you indentified a problem that is costing you money, with a ridiculously obvious solution, and you ask for advice? And then you expect to not get sarcastic responses? I think you know what to do to fix this problem, but if you can'd do it on your own, I have a plan. Send me $800 every time you get to $1k. This will make the money unavailable to you to blow, so you'll have to continualy work at the lower limits to make the money. Then after doing this a dozen times or so, you'll have ~$10k saved up in the Nutcracker Savings Bank. Then I'll keep it since you'd just blow it on a $50/$1

So this is the first poker book I ever bought, and I quickly realized I got the wrong one and set it aside. I'm curious as to how useful the info in this book is at varying levels. It seems that some of the advanced play is completely useless at lower limits, where straightfoward donk-beating strategies work best.So for those who have read this book and know. At what limits do the more advanced plays discussed in this book start to become useful? And am I right in assuming that most advanced plays are useless or even detrimental to use at lower limits?

With a final board of A757J no flush possMynewbuddy bets, Otherguy raises, Mynewbuddy 3-bets, Otherguy calls.Mynewbuddy shows 68 for busted straight draw.Otherguy shows 79 for trips.Mynewbuddy: Great call, thought the bluff would work.

If it is party stats that you are looking at in PT, it includes all the times you folded and the board was paired as well. So if you limped with 87s and the flop came AAK and you folded, you got credited with having a 1 pair hand and thus losing 1sb. So the stat is really irrelevant.

ah, i see what you're saying. yes.regardless, we agree that this doesn't change the point that checking is still better?aseemyep, I just wanted to make sure we had the right reasons though. The rest of your post was absolutely correct.

Right, but if we're behind, he's definately pushing on the river, don't you agree? Actually, if a diamond hits, it might scare him enough to lay down a 7x, but probably not. Either way, if we're behind, the same amount of money is getting into this pot, don't you agree?

And Ruca, the board pair makes checking better than if the board wasn't paired. An unpaired board generally makes it much more likely for villian to have oesd (6 outs) or 1 non dominated pair (3-5 outs, depending on suits) whereas currently they have 2 or 3 outs.

I agree with you for the most part, but there is one thing you missed.Maybe you didn't notice this, but villian had less than pot size, so he was probably going to push on the river if he was going to bet at all. You probably have to call this river no matter what, so you are not losing any less money to a 7x than by pushing the turn. But you are right, you make more money by checking this turn when ahead though, so yes, definately check this turn. Call the river.

I sit with 30, and if I get down to about 10BB on any table, I get up and leave, rather than rebuy. More psychological than anything.

should have been raiders 24 if not for a bad call and you know it.and no i'm not a big fan of the raiders or a big hater of the chiefs, i dont like or hate either team and that was a bogus call.Actually, the extra 4 points (since they still made a field goal from that drive) would have made it 23-21, but a lot would have changed, so you can't really say what would have happened if the call had gone the other way. But both teams did get a little luck (more for KC really).I'm a big KC fan, have been for a decade now. I live in Kansas, so they are the only team that I can go see without having

I'd say that's a raise pf, but call isn't horrid or anything. Not nearly as bad as your flop play at least If you were pretty sure you'd get raised (if MP2 generally followed up pf aggression), the call/3-bet is ok, but most passive players will just call this with their AK/AQ or whatever (just like MP2 did here), so you run the risk of everyone staying in for just 1 bet when you have an absolutely massive equity edge. This would be a huge mistake. I'd say it's not even close and you must raise this flop the first chance you get. And this is based on equity only. The fact that a raise h