Sea Wasp

Villain never has QJ here. There are no drawing hands that call the turn bet, unless he is a complete spastic in which case i am sure better spots will present themselves. I understand that playing a mader hand like this is pretty bad, however can you come up with any hands he calls the turn with that we beat? i surely can't.

Get yor stack in there quick smart. Villains range's are huge here in these games and your QQ figures to be ahead enough of the time.

Tough spot. Alot depepnds on your read of the player. Your push essentially is only going to be called if your best unless villian is a donkey and puts in a stack with the Ad. In these spots i prefer to call the flop in position and reeveluate the turn. I think pushing is a really scared way to play the hand and most certainly will not extract value from any worse hands.

Your are playing a loose passive style, which is one one the easiest styles for a good players to exploit. You are playing too many hands and not playing them aggresviely enough. Compare your stats with the stats i have of my play during my 1/2NL challenge on my blog. Click the link to my blog below and find the entries detailing the challenge. If your stats end up looking something like mine you will be on the right track eventaully.

Calling here is terrible. I think everyone else has covered why.

Play tight.Value bet like your life depepnds on it.Bluff rarely.Decide early in the hand whether or not your prepared to play the hand for stacks and go with it.Take alot of rebuy money with you as varience will be sky high in these guys however long term profits if you play it smart will also be huge.

Hand 1: You have a clear fold on the river. What does he call turn with that you beat and then bluffs into you? Nothing. In fact i am not sure i even like your turn bet here. Your draw is weak in that if you hit you will not get paid off by a worse hand. Hand 2: This is a clear fold preflop with a hand like QJh because we want to avoid situations like the one you are in. even if you hit the flop you never know if it is good. as played you have a really easy fold on the turn without any reads on villain.i think both these hands were misplayed before you got shoved on so i suggest looking at way

The hand is butchered pretty bad and you know this however with your image at the table being as you described it Evan may look you up pretty thin if you push here. Im happy to stack off here for a buyin. With deeper stacks you'd have a clear call.

This looks like someone just having a little fun with the poker world. There has been nothing documented about this other than what was written to pokerbay and considering filming finished months ago i am sure we would have heard about it before today.

Good fold, and i agree with were you said you went wrong.

Unless you have evidence that villain is capable of doing this with hands other than KK and AA then you have a clear muck safe in the knowledge that you are drawing very thin. As the others have said, calling is not an option and if you were to play, you must push. In this spot you are never way ahead, you are either way behind or flipping, and that is not a spot where you want to be putting your money into the pot.

This is total spew, especially given your desription of the guy. If called you are beat or flipping and you get him to fold hands you beat. With a player like this i dont mind calling the preflop raise and looking for him to stack off if he hits any part of the flop. At least that way you will win afew of these pots to make up for the times he has QQ-AA and you lose your stack anyway. Your line allows him to play perfectly against you.

He doesn't need the nut flush to call you here. In fact, with your line i think you get called by alot more than a flush. Lets say you held AK or AQ of spades, would you flat call his flop lead? And would you raise his turn bet? Personally i don't like you line as everything about it screams bluff. Of course the board is so scary that you feel villain needs a strong flush to call, however a smart player that runs through this hand will likely be calling you with top set.

This hand should be a clear fold preflop OOP. Playing dominated hands OOP is just not profitable if your going to check call when you hit.

The problem with this is that he may have what you are representing.

Your turn bet is too small. i would be betting 35 and calling a push. As played i am not folding as your bet will surely induce a raise from a hand like a9 because it looks like your drawing

UTG raises and calls a 3 bet as well as a cbet on a raggy flop so we must put him on 99-AA. He isnt calling a 3bet preflop with anything that hits that board except a set and he isnt calling the flop cbet with AK leabing us with quite a narrow range. I like the turn check because it exersizes pot control and we are not sure out hand is any good. in fact i would say that on average it isn't good.The river lead is a tough 1. It acts as a blocking bet if villain has QQ-AA and is also small enough to possibly gain a crying call from TT. I like your line in general because it gets you to showdown c

I like this line. Check calling gains value from worse hands and keeps the pot small for when we are beat. Villains turns bet is very weak and i wouldn't be check folding the turn. if anything i would bet/fold turn but by checking we need to call.I call almost any river bet here against a player with an agg factor higher than 2.

On this board with your hand you are going to get action from any big ace by leading the flop hoping to be raised. The bet/3bet line is always best in these multiway pots when you are OOP on draw heavy boards. MP may be aggresive but he also needs a hand to keep firing into many villains and may not oblige. Also, if you lead he is just as likely to raise you with an ace so you get more money in the pot earlier making it easier to get your stack in there.

Agreed on the insta muck preflop. Would you feel the same way if you folded 72 and the flop came k22 with another 2 on the turn? In a multiway pot like that you might as well have 72 as you AT is reduced to a hand like that because you will need to flop HUGE to be sure your hand is good and there is no way it is happening often enough to make you any money.

I dont like the preflop limp. If you are going to lead this flop lead it for 20 or so instead of 15 to make it easier to get your stack in if he does raise you. Because of stack sizes it is hard for villain to fold an overpair with only 80bb in play so once raised i would tank for 20 secs making out as if i have a decision and then just push it in. All you have to do is make villain believe that you may also be pushing with combo draws as well as sets and then you have him. Going for a turn check push is risky because there are so many scare cards that will kill your action and of course villa

If you are calling a reraise preflop with a5dd i assume it is to hit a big flop and not to hit top pair. Once villain bets turn you must fold your hand. You have said he isnt a bluffer so what do you suppose he is 3 barreling with here? I don't like this line at all and in fact i would be mucking this preflop unless BB had a much bigger stack.

If you dont fold preflop then you should push to at least isolate the shorty. I agree that shorty rarely has anything other than KK or AA here.

Checking behind here kind of defeats the purpose of 3 betting preflop. I say bet 20 and call a push from this short stack. You'll find you have decent equity against his range if he pushes in with hands other than AA, KK or QQ which are unlikely anyway because of your hand and the board.

If he is passive then you should assume that he isn't min reraising you with less than JJ preflop. So i would be calling preflop for set value and folding to a flop bet.