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PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.02 BB (6 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FCP)CO ($3)Button ($5.53)SB ($20.29)BB ($3.58)UTG ($2.90)Hero ($4.93)Preflop: Hero is MP with A :club: , A :D . CO posts a blind of $0.02. 1 fold, Hero raises to $0.08, CO (poster) calls $0.06, 1 fold, SB calls $0.07, 1 fold.Flop: ($0.26) 5 :) , J :D , J :)(3 players)SB checks, Hero bets $0.14, CO folds, SB raises to $0.28, Hero calls $0.14.Turn: ($0.82) 9 :D(2 players)SB bets $0.1, Hero calls $0.10.River: ($1.02) 3 :D(2 players)SB bets $0.1, Hero calls $0.10.Final Pot: $1.22Thoughts on all streets appreciated.Villian has had the goods when bet. Right before this hand I saw villian donkpush preflop for like $20 into a $1 pot with aces. Thats about all the reads i got on him.

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Maybe this is a leak in my game but I'm not getting past the flop here. The blinds are just too dangerous. Especially at this limit. He's gonna call with any suited J for sure. I can't help on the rest. I'm out after the flop. I would also raise more with the AA pre-flop.

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you'd really instafold the flop? I dunno, maybe its just me, but I get minraised ALLLLLL the time at these limits. Let me emphasize again, ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL the time. I guess i didnt instafold because I felt that it would be pretty pathetic to be giving all these donk-minraises insta-credit for monsters if they were bluffing. I mean after all, if you can get someone to laydown aces on a board like that by merely minraising, thats a pretty powerful move doncha think?

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PokerStars No-Limit Thoughts on all streets appreciated.Villian has had the goods when bet. Right before this hand I saw villian donkpush preflop for like $20 into a $1 pot with aces. Thats about all the reads i got on him.
If the PF bet is a standard raise, that's OK. . If he min-raises the flop and usually has the goods, he's at least giving you a chance to catch up.Personally, I re-raise the flop --- .75 to a buck ...The turn and river are cheap enough to call down.
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If the PF bet is a standard raise, that's OK. . If he min-raises the flop and usually has the goods, he's at least giving you a chance to catch up.Personally, I re-raise the flop --- .75 to a buck ...The turn and river are cheap enough to call down.
To catch up? To what? 2 outs? I don't know the answer to this question myself, but do you think it would be right to chase those two outs if we had our villian for sure on trips? If i'm chasing vs a monster, I know that I would be much more comfortable with something like an OESD or a FD, not two outs.
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you'd really instafold the flop? I dunno, maybe its just me, but I get minraised ALLLLLL the time at these limits. Let me emphasize again, ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL the time. I guess i didnt instafold because I felt that it would be pretty pathetic to be giving all these donk-minraises insta-credit for monsters if they were bluffing. I mean after all, if you can get someone to laydown aces on a board like that by merely minraising, thats a pretty powerful move doncha think?
Well you know your other option is to re-raise. You can do that and find out real quick where you are. This just smells bad. Like he wants you to call. If he was really afraid of you drawing out he'd raise more. He doesn't have you on AA.
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To catch up? To what? 2 outs? I don't know the answer to this question myself, but do you think it would be right to chase those two outs if we had our villian for sure on trips? If i'm chasing vs a monster, I know that I would be much more comfortable with something like an OESD or a FD, not two outs.
This is why min-raising sucks. His min-raise give us what ... 5:1 on the pot alone? And if he does have the J, he's stacking off here if we hit our Q, so our implied odds for paying the flop bet at least are tremendous. We'd have to re-evaluate at the turn of course, and if the price goes up, we can make a different decision. But I don't think the villain has the J here because he slows way down on the turn and river, so we're probably pretty well-off for having called the flop bet. In fact, the way the hand played out, I might raise the river for value.
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This is why min-raising sucks. His min-raise give us what ... 5:1 on the pot alone? And if he does have the J, he's stacking off here if we hit our Q, so our implied odds for paying the flop bet at least are tremendous. We'd have to re-evaluate at the turn of course, and if the price goes up, we can make a different decision. But I don't think the villain has the J here because he slows way down on the turn and river, so we're probably pretty well-off for having called the flop bet. In fact, the way the hand played out, I might raise the river for value.
you mean A right?
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Maybe this is a leak in my game but I'm not getting past the flop here. The blinds are just too dangerous. Especially at this limit. He's gonna call with any suited J for sure. I can't help on the rest. I'm out after the flop. I would also raise more with the AA pre-flop.
It is. Folding to his flop raise is horrible. He could be doing this with a massive range including midpairs, a flush draw, a 5 or a total bluff. I do not mind the way hero played this hand at all, I would probably play it the same.
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You are probably ahead the whole hand, but I like the way you played it actually. No real reason to get in to deep with that flop. Sure, he might minraise you with a draw but in this case I´d probably let him have his freecards and keep the pot small. The smaller the pot is, the less likely it is for him to extract $ from you later in the hand if he happened to have hit a monster. If he did, he played it really bad on the flop though.

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I think you played it fine. It's a wa/wb situation. Another raise on the flop will probably fold out hands that you beat, although, at these stakes, maybe you can reraise flop for value.After that, raising the turn is bad for the same reason. There may be room for a value raise on the river depending on the opponent, but it is pretty read dependent. Against an unknown, I think I take the same line as you did.

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1) There are solid players at .01/.02 NL?2) Even if there are, this player is not one of them.
Yeah, hardly turn and river bets that you would expect from a solid player.
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lol....I have a couple of people like that that i look around forif anyone is out there grinding the .01/.02's, look for two people - ramacan and tigna81ramacan - buys in for $1 and will do anything from pushing all-in preflop /w 7-4 or raise to $.20 with it preflop. After the flop, he will probably bluff off the remainder of his chips to you, so check all your hands to him. After he busts, he'll reload for another dollar and keep doing this until he gambles his way up to a big stack. When he has anything above $2.50, he'll start playing passively. Bluff him here.tigna81 - buys in for $5 and literally goes all-in every hand preflop. If he busts, he'll reload and do it again.

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To those who advocate reraising the flop, WHY?!??!?!To those who advocate raising the turn, why? Without a read here, I'll happily go to showdown for this price if he's gonna let it happen. Raising would seem to scare off any hand that doesn't have a Jack in it.I think the hand is played fine. I sometimes fold the flop, sometimes not. Depends who you're up against.

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