god dam I suck at the cash pokers! Always ends in disaster. Not sure why I can't handle many swings in cash games, when you consider I'm used to MTT and hyper turbo game swings being far worse just with cash games it seems much more difficult.
I think it comes down to I'm pretty confident in my MTT and SnG games so it doesn't effect me much but cash games I really need some help lol. Overall I think I have been playing ok, haven't tilted just tons of setups, cold decks and running over pairs in 3B/4B pots and having aggro players check raise me all in and me paying them off whilst they have sets obviously.
Question, I find it quite common to see check raises or just people raising CB on either dry or wet boards and when I've got a marginal hand like say TJo and flop comes down T46 I CB and get raised...not sure if I should be just calling or what. I never feel comfortable calling a turn bet or even river bet. So many leaks.
I lost like 5 buy-ins yesterday, which obviously isn't much in the grand scheme of things but lost most at 50nl so I've now had to remove 50nl and stick to 25nl.
Here are two big pots I lost at 50nl, this first hand is vs a tight regular. Now, not sure about my line. I wanted to look like I was ISO raising the weak limper so wanted to look weak and was going to go for a x/r on the flop but he didn't oblige so I elect to bet the turn for value. When he calls pre flop I'm thinking he might have hands like 99-JJ, maybe some suited connecter hands but that seems a bit optimist calling my raise pre and probably just wants to get in hands like AK/KK+ in pre flop.
I don't expect to see many calls for my raise size pre with many pocket pairs so when he actually flats my turn raise I put his range on 99-JJ specifically. Is this bad? I actually shoved the river for value thinking he's calling TT-JJ I know I'm targeting a very small range of hands but didn't expect to see sets here much. I just don't expect regs to call here with low/medium pocket pairs, it seems bad..myabe not because he owned me.
Thoughts on my line?
PokerStars - $0.50 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
BB: $50.00
UTG: $29.66 (VPIP: 75.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 4)
CO: $50.00 (VPIP: 33.33, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 3)
BTN: $53.86 (VPIP: 18.75, PFR: 15.63, 3Bet Preflop: 7.69, Hands: 33)
Hero (SB): $72.26
Hero posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50
Pre Flop: (pot: $0.75) Hero has Q:spade: Q:diamond:
UTG calls $0.50,
CO raises to $2.00,
BTN calls $2.00,
Hero raises to $8.50,
fold,
fold,
fold,
BTN calls $6.50
Flop: ($20.00, 2 players) 8:spade: 4:heart: 7:diamond:
Hero checks,
BTN checks
Turn: ($20.00, 2 players) 2:heart:
Hero bets $16.00,
BTN calls $16.00
River: ($52.00, 2 players) 9:diamond:
Hero bets $47.76 and is all-in,
BTN calls $29.36 and is all-in
Hero shows Q:spade: Q:diamond: (One Pair, Queens) (Pre 81%, Flop 9%, Turn 5%)
BTN shows 8:club: 8:diamond: (Three of a Kind, Eights) (Pre 19%, Flop 91%, Turn 95%)
BTN wins $108.22
Next hand is vs an aggro reg. He loved to raise CB's especially on dry boards. Goddam I felt I was owned here but I honestly felt I could click it back and have him spazz off with worse hands and draws as I don't rep a ton either. I expected to see worse pairs, semi bluffs and complete bluffs and I find a click back would get the most spew given I don't rep much either! I never expected him to ever have 55 or 8x here given I'm UTG and he's MP and would make zero sense raising those hands unless he's thinking on a level where I might know this I don't bloody know. I guess I should just call the flop and let him bet the turn? I really didn't expect him to be flatting QQ here pre. Anyway, I was owned..thoughts on my line?
PokerStars - $0.50 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
CO: $38.77 (VPIP: 35.29, PFR: 13.73, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 51)
BTN: $30.61 (VPIP: 47.06, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 52)
SB: $39.23 (VPIP: 35.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 61)
BB: $58.71 (VPIP: 16.51, PFR: 15.60, 3Bet Preflop: 12.90, Hands: 114)
Hero (UTG): $70.10
MP: $54.51 (VPIP: 29.52, PFR: 27.62, 3Bet Preflop: 11.76, Hands: 110)
SB posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50
Pre Flop: (pot: $0.75) Hero has J:diamond: J:club:
Hero raises to $1.50,
MP calls $1.50,
fold,
fold,
fold,
fold
Flop: ($3.75, 2 players) 8:spade: 5:diamond: 8:diamond:
Hero bets $2.00,
MP raises to $6.00,
Hero raises to $14.00,
MP raises to $53.01 and is all-in,
Hero calls $39.01
Turn: ($109.77, 2 players) 3:club:
River: ($109.77, 2 players) T:spade:
Players agreed to run it twice.
Turn #2: ($109.77, 2 players) K:club:
River #2: ($109.77, 2 players) 4:club:
Hero shows J:diamond: J:club: (Two Pair, Jacks and Eights)Board #1 (Pre 17%, Flop 8%, Turn 5%)Board #2 (Pre 17%, Flop 8%, Turn 5%)
MP shows Q:diamond: Q:club: (Two Pair, Queens and Eights)Board #1 (Pre 83%, Flop 92%, Turn 95%)Board #2 (Pre 83%, Flop 92%, Turn 95%)
MP wins $53.64
MP wins $53.63
So basically on both hands I thought I was betting for value but seems I got owned in both spots...