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6bet me
Visionary
Silver Level
My local casino does $1/$2 cash games with an $80 max buy-in. I had $67 on the table and everyone else had between $80 and $200.
Hero (SB) is dealt Jh Qc
Hero (SB) posts $1
BB posts $2
UTG calls $2
UTG+1 and UTG+2 are sitting out
MP calls $2
HJ folds
CO calls $2
BTN calls $2
Hero (SB) raises to $6
BB calls $6
UTG calls $6
MP calls $6
CO calls $6
BTN calls $6
$36 in pot
Flop shows Qh Jc 8d
Hero checks
BB checks
UTG checks
MP bets $10
CO raises to $20
BTN folds
Hero calls $20
BB folds
UTG calls $20
MP calls $20
$116 in pot
Hero has $41 left behind
Turn shows 9h
Hero bets $21
UTG folds
MP raises to $80 and is all-in
CO folds
Hero calls $20
Now I'll explain my reasoning:
This table was a very loose table. People would play almost every hand. I raised out of position preflop because I knew that people with terrible hands (like 58 offsuit) would call my raise and that I could get more value in the pot.
When the flop came out, I was quite happy, although I was a bit worried about someone flopping a straight. There were no flush draws so I thought I didn't really need to protect my hand. I thought that the best thing I could do was to slow-play my hand. I let other players bet first (other players bluffed more than me) so that I could get more value in the pot. I put them on hands like Q5 or J7 (the kind of hands they would limp in and then call all the way down) and so I didn't want to scare them out of the pot by immediately shoving. Plus I thought that if I shoved, the only hands that would call me would be hands that had me beat, so there was no point.
Once the turn came out, I thought I'd lost the pot because anyone with a T would've hit their straight. Nevertheless, I didn't want to be bluffed out of the pot, so I made a blocker bet. My logic was that if everyone checked to the last villain, he would make a bet regardless of whether he had the straight or not, and I didn't want that to happen, so I made a bet that might get called by a worse hand (due to the amount of calling stations on the table), but also a bet that could represent the straight and kick other players off the hand. I just didn't want to be bluffed off of what could potentially have still been the best hand.
After I got raised on the turn, I thought it was almost inevitable that I'd lost, but I looked at the pot odds. All I needed was about a 15-20% chance of winning to make the last $20 worthwhile. If I thought there was an 80% chance I would lose the hand but a 20% chance he was bluffing, then it would've been worth me making the call (due to how much money was at stake), so I called him for my last $20.
Is my reasoning invalid? What did I do wrong? What should I have done instead?
Hero (SB) is dealt Jh Qc
Hero (SB) posts $1
BB posts $2
UTG calls $2
UTG+1 and UTG+2 are sitting out
MP calls $2
HJ folds
CO calls $2
BTN calls $2
Hero (SB) raises to $6
BB calls $6
UTG calls $6
MP calls $6
CO calls $6
BTN calls $6
$36 in pot
Flop shows Qh Jc 8d
Hero checks
BB checks
UTG checks
MP bets $10
CO raises to $20
BTN folds
Hero calls $20
BB folds
UTG calls $20
MP calls $20
$116 in pot
Hero has $41 left behind
Turn shows 9h
Hero bets $21
UTG folds
MP raises to $80 and is all-in
CO folds
Hero calls $20
Now I'll explain my reasoning:
This table was a very loose table. People would play almost every hand. I raised out of position preflop because I knew that people with terrible hands (like 58 offsuit) would call my raise and that I could get more value in the pot.
When the flop came out, I was quite happy, although I was a bit worried about someone flopping a straight. There were no flush draws so I thought I didn't really need to protect my hand. I thought that the best thing I could do was to slow-play my hand. I let other players bet first (other players bluffed more than me) so that I could get more value in the pot. I put them on hands like Q5 or J7 (the kind of hands they would limp in and then call all the way down) and so I didn't want to scare them out of the pot by immediately shoving. Plus I thought that if I shoved, the only hands that would call me would be hands that had me beat, so there was no point.
Once the turn came out, I thought I'd lost the pot because anyone with a T would've hit their straight. Nevertheless, I didn't want to be bluffed out of the pot, so I made a blocker bet. My logic was that if everyone checked to the last villain, he would make a bet regardless of whether he had the straight or not, and I didn't want that to happen, so I made a bet that might get called by a worse hand (due to the amount of calling stations on the table), but also a bet that could represent the straight and kick other players off the hand. I just didn't want to be bluffed off of what could potentially have still been the best hand.
After I got raised on the turn, I thought it was almost inevitable that I'd lost, but I looked at the pot odds. All I needed was about a 15-20% chance of winning to make the last $20 worthwhile. If I thought there was an 80% chance I would lose the hand but a 20% chance he was bluffing, then it would've been worth me making the call (due to how much money was at stake), so I called him for my last $20.
Is my reasoning invalid? What did I do wrong? What should I have done instead?