Did I play this right?

Hey guys, I'm trying to grind my way to a bank roll. Have made it from $2.25 up to $10.05 after this last loss. My opponent had been playing pretty loose and had just doubled up off of a flush draw that he went all in on. I was putting him on either a draw or a king with a worse kicker. His min bets seemed strange to me because it was the first time I had seen him just keep min betting and I simply called expecting him to raise me the next hand.

Did I play this right and if not how could I have played it better? As I said, I was very confident he didn't have a made hand and that is why I had no real fear in going all in with top pair and a flush draw.

Seat 7: mihabear ($2.11)
Seat 8: vierry26 ($2)
Seat 9: PacMyc ($0.86)
PR3C0GNITI0N posts the small blind of $0.01
agonyship posts the big blind of $0.02
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PR3C0GNITI0N [Jd Kd]
mihabear folds
OJumpyO stands up
vierry26 folds
Amok91: yessssssssss
PacMyc folds
863tb87362 folds
Amok91 calls $0.02
fcolnaghi2 folds
PR3C0GNITI0N calls $0.01
agonyship checks
*** FLOP *** [9c 2d Ks]
La RoLliNg sits down
PR3C0GNITI0N checks
agonyship checks
Amok91 bets $0.02
PR3C0GNITI0N calls $0.02
agonyship folds
*** TURN *** [9c 2d Ks] [7d]
PR3C0GNITI0N checks
Amok91 bets $0.02
PR3C0GNITI0N raises to $0.06
La RoLliNg stands up
Amok91 raises to $0.28
PR3C0GNITI0N has 15 seconds left to act
PR3C0GNITI0N raises to $0.59
Amok91 raises to $0.90
PR3C0GNITI0N raises to $2.02, and is all in
Amok91 has 15 seconds left to act
Honeybunny1986 sits down
Amok91 calls $1.12
PR3C0GNITI0N shows [Jd Kd]
Honeybunny1986 adds $1
Amok91 shows [Jc Tc]
*** RIVER *** [9c 2d Ks 7d] [Qh]
PR3C0GNITI0N shows a pair of Kings
Amok91 shows a straight, King high
Amok91 wins the pot ($3.87) with a straight, King high

Thanks for the help everyone.

I'll give it a go

You are OOP in the SB, it is 3 way, and the Button limped. You very likely have the best hand here, and you need to raise or fold IMO. Calling preflop is probably the worst option. Then you are just asking to get hurt when someone calls with trash and ends up with a highly concealed 2pair or something.

Rainbow flop, no straights or flushes out there yet, TP J kicker, and AK and QK are unlikely considering the lack of raises preflop. I just think you need to raise that flop for value. This is 2nl and a lot of worse hands will be calling you. Rarely he will have K9 or some bs like that, but don't worry about the monsters under your bed. If he tries to stack here, I put him on a set of 2s, or 9s, K9, etc., and I think about folding depending on his stats.

The 7d on the turn gives you a lot more outs in the unlikely scenario that you are behind here. You played it right by getting the money in here IMO.

Having said that, you still got the money in nicely, and he sucked out. Just don't be results oriented. I didn't see much bluffing at 2nl, but I saw people stacking a vulnerable 2pair/TP/flush draw like it was a set+.

Thanks a lot for the advice. I'm definitely trying to not be results oriented. I plugged the numbers into a calculator after and saw I was an 86% favorite which actually made me feel better because as long as I'm playing well that's all I can hope to do. I'm actually up to $14 dollars at the moment due to $1.10 super turbos. Most of the field seems to donk themselves off really early and the rest you can usually get your chips in again good later. Most just seem to feel over rushed by only have 300 chips.

I'm not sure if I'm just running good on these turbos (I know I have gotten some very nice hands) or if they are just good to play at this level. Here are my results so far though.



Anyone have any experience with these? I know 8 games is a very small sample.

Well...

I would avoid them. Stick to 2nl because the odds of going bust assuming you can beat the level are lower with such a small roll. Someone else can probably add more, but you might even want to avoid buying in at 2nl for 100bb. The play is so bad that you might be better off playing shorter stacked (50-75bb), to lower the odds of going busto, even though you would be leaving potential profit on the table.

When you have a bunch of buy ins for the super turbos you can try them again with less risk (30+ buy ins I'd imagine). Regular turbos have a hefty amount of luck involved, and 8 games isn't even a small sample yet.

That sounds like pretty sound advice about the SNGs. Every piece of advice I've ever received was to play with a full stack (otherwise I would just play shallow stack tables, which I posted about). However back to my first point, although they seem easy to win like you said, eight games is tiny. I am wanting to become a cash game player anyway seeing as everything I hear is that cash games are how you make real money over time.

Raise pre-flop. You've got a great hand against a limper and random BB. It's a really good excuse to raise and steal the blinds or charge them to see a flop, after which point you'll have either have a good spot to cbet (I'm cbetting 100% of flops in this spot) or a good spot to get some value (yes with top pair good kicker, it's blind vs blind+limper).


Flop, bet/raise, we're not looking to raise top pair with a J kicker, but it's a stupid 2c bet that will allow him to draw cheaply, just charge him a normal price.

Turn, I don't get it, what that you beat calls you? You're turning your hand into a semi-bluff and it has more value as a pair. He 3bets and you 4bet shove, you're effectively doing this with a flushdraw and two pair/set draw.
Another random bit of information is that when someone stuffs up their bet sizing as much as he did, leaving you with $1 behind when you've got a draw, given the pot size the $1 is going in, has no fold equity, you've got no equity on the river unimproved, you should just see the river, throw the $1 in when you hit and check/fold when you don't (he can't fold to the $1, if he did, it would be very exploitable).

After actually looking at the results, he had a gutshot, that might change whether you can ever fold on rivers like I mentioned, but I'm playing the rest of it the same way vs what I think is his range.

Lol you played it well, u just should have made an raise on turn..
He just caught the 4outer. No can do, fishes are fishes. Donks are donks, they always catch u.