$10 NLHE 6-max: 6-max 10NL: Frustrated

$10 NL HE 6-max: 6-max 10NL: Frustrated

I was doing great in my session until....



poker stars $0.05/$0.10 No Limit Hold'em - 5 players - View hand 495343
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Hero (SB): $10.00
BB: $5.65
UTG: $10.25
CO: $20.05
BTN: $10.60

Pre Flop: ($0.15) Hero is SB with A ♣ A ♥
UTG raises to $0.40, CO calls $0.40, 1 fold, Hero raises to $1.50, 2 folds, CO calls $1.10

Flop: ($3.50) 5 ♠ 4 ♠ Q ♥ (2 players)
Hero bets $2, CO calls $2

Turn: ($7.50) 3 ♥ (2 players)
Hero bets $6.50 all in, CO calls $6.50

River: ($20.50) J ♥ (2 players - 1 is all in)


I dont understand this level....i go up 5, lose 10 because a retard calls 3b with 5s and gets trips...wtf am i doing wrong?

pretty standard looking hand to me although you should bet more on the flop because there are some draws that he can call with on the flop. Other than that you just got unlucky. Id say its a cooler just move on to the next hand.

Say i bet 3$ on flop and he shoves, should that be an easy laydown?

Cooler. He may or may not be getting the implied odds to call-- anyway, I'm probably always getting it in here, you just got unlucky.

Agree, it's a cooler.

No, if you bet bigger on the flop and he shoves, you do not have an easy laydown, you've flopped an overpair in a 3bet pot w draws available w 100bb's starting effective stacks, you pretty much have to call.

One thing that absolutely does not help in this specific hand, but is something to keep in mind - once someone gets to 200bb's, better players are going to be playing a lot of implied odds hands. I don't like his call of your 3bet, he's not getting the correct odds and he absolutely has to fold unless he hits his set (your SPR dictates that you go all in w a huge chunk of your range that makes the 3bet - if you were deep as well, there's more leeway), but something to keep in mind.

Just a cooler. Alot of ppl will call without odds for any pocket pair for the huge return that if they spike a set and facing AA/KK, there gonna get paid off easily.

Him calling a 3bet with 55 is a bit stupid but hey thats him. mayb he thought u were on AK and looking 4 a low flop or u were squeezing?

And dude playin with $10 on 0.10/0.25 is a bit silly. Ur pot commited on any hand that u cbet a flop and get called. Ur gonna have to shove on the turn since most of ur stack is in the pot unless u know ur beat. Then thats just not good poker pumpin in 1/2 ur stack then check/folding.

ukaliks said:

And dude playin with $10 on 0.10/0.25 is a bit silly.

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He's playing 100bb's at 10nl ($0.05/$0.10)...

What is SPR?

lupefan said:

What is SPR?

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Stack-to-Pot Ratio.

You can bet the pot on the flop and if he goes all-in -> you can easily fold, because he knows from the preflop action that you have a big pair. He will go all-in only with a set, 2 pairs or the nut flush draw... and you obviously don't want to play against this range of hands.

I see many people shove when they see half stack in , but I can still fold if I know that I am behind

Pafkata said:

You can bet the pot on the flop and if he goes all-in -> you can easily fold, because he knows from the preflop action that you have a big pair. He will go all-in only with a set, 2 pairs or the nut flush draw... and you obviously don't want to play against this range of hands.

I see many people shove when they see half stack in , but I can still fold if I know that I am behind

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It's 10NL, so villains usually aren't putting us on any range. They'll shove the flop with Qx and draws, not just sets (two pair is super unlikely on this flop). AA wins against most of this range, so I wouldn't call it an easy fold. We're also getting tremendous odds if we bet pot and he shoves.

cjatud2012 said:

It's 10NL, so villains usually aren't putting us on any range. They'll shove the flop with Qx and draws, not just sets (two pair is super unlikely on this flop). AA wins against most of this range, so I wouldn't call it an easy fold. We're also getting tremendous odds if we bet pot and he shoves.

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Agree - though 100nl thinking players will also be aggressive w draws and overpairs, so it won't always be a better hand there either.

In regards to stack-to-pot ratio - on the flop the pot is $3.50 and we've got $8.50 behind, so our remaining stack is a little less than 2.5x the pot size. This is a spot where we're not folding an overpair or TPTK without having villain show us his set - if he'd raised the flop, the correct play would have been to shove (this would be true up to about an SPR of 4). That's why this is just a cooler.

slycbnew said:

Agree - though 100nl thinking players will also be aggressive w draws and overpairs, so it won't always be a better hand there either.

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This is very true. I only meant 10NL players won't always be thinking about what we could have. Rather, many will treat top pair as the nuts, no matter what we represent, and will stack off.

slycbnew said:

He's playing 100bb's at 10nl ($0.05/$0.10)...

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silly me. I miss read it as 0.10/0.25 >.<

My bad!

Thanks guyyss, makes me feel better.