$25 NLHE 6-max: Cooler or should I have slowed down with AA??

Cooler or bad play?

  • Cooler

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  • Bad Play

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  • Somewhere in between

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Hey guys. This is my first time posting on cardschat. After taking beats all day this one really pissed me off. After I calmed down a bit I'd like to know if this could of been avoided because of a bad play or it was simply a cooler. Thanks ahead of time.


Winning Poker Network Game #546930022: No Limit Holdem ($0.10/$0.25) [2016/01/10 04:20:08 UTC]
Table: Taenite (Short, PRR)

Seats: 6

Seat 1: MorghulisValar ($12.85)
Seat 2: SCON ($14.30)

Seat 3: gr1eg0ry ($13.60)
Seat 5: BTCDestroyer ($14.61)
Seat 6: crossrunner10 ($14.97)
Button is seat 1
SCON: posts small blind $0.10
gr1eg0ry: posts big blind $0.25

*** HOLE CARDS ***
SCON: dealt [Ad Ac]
BTCDestroyer: folds
crossrunner10: folds
MorghulisValar: raises $0.75
SCON: raises $1.15
gr1eg0ry: folds
MorghulisValar: calls $0.50

*** FLOP *** [3d Qc 8s]
SCON: bets $1.74
MorghulisValar: calls $1.74

*** TURN *** [3d Qc 8s] [Jh]
SCON: bets $3.94
MorghulisValar: calls $3.94

*** RIVER *** [3d Qc 8s] [Jh] [7s]
SCON: raises all-in $7.37
MorghulisValar: raises all-in $5.92
SCON: pulls back uncalled bet $1.45

*** SUMMARY ***
Pot: $24.66 | Rake: $1.05 | BBJ: $0.24 |
Board: [3d Qc 8s Jh 7s]
Seat 1: MorghulisValar won $24.66 (+$11.81) [Ts 9c] Straight, Queen High
Seat 2: SCON lost -$12.85 [Ad Ac] One Pair, Aces
 
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Hey mate, welcome to Cardschat!

Firstly, if you want advice on how the hand plays out make sure you remove the results from the hand history. This means people can see how the hand played out without knowing the result which can skew peoples opinions on how you played it.

About the hand, when you raise pre flop make the raise quite a bit bigger. Something like $2.50 would be better as it gives him less incentive to call with bad hands and makes the pot bigger when we get to the flop which means it will be harder for us to make big mistakes post flop.
 
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Preflop: Terrible for 2 reasons: The first reason is that any decent reg is aware that a preflop min-raise (other than an open raise) is usually a sign of extreme strength, like QQ+. By making this small fishy-sized raise, you're actually showing a lot of strength and essentially turning your hand face up. The second reason is that you're allowing the SPR to be high, which gives marginal hands (like suited connectors and low pocket pairs) the opportunity to call and try to hit a monster hand (a set, a straight or a flush). By making a larger raise size instead (a typical 3bet size is about 3.5x the 2bet size, so around $2.50 in this case), not only are you disguising the strength of your hand better (since they might think that you're just trying to steal the pot and make them fold), but you're also lowering the SPR and not allowing these kind of marginal hands to out-flop you.

Flop: Completely fine. Good to see that you're betting and I like the sizing too.

Turn: Again, I love the bet and I love the sizing too.

River: Again, I love the fact that you're going for a thin value jam here and getting that extra value off sticky Qx hands like AQ, KQ and QT.

In summary, you played very well postflop, but your preflop play set you up for a disaster.
 
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