$5 NLHE 6-max: How badly did I play this one?

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$5 NL HE 6-max: How badly did I play this one?

Getting 3.5 to 1 to call with KJ suited was too tempting. And I thought the flop was pretty good for me.

I should have just laid it down and still would have had 95%+ of my stack left, so stupid. I didn't think he had a huge hand. The guy was pretty aggressive and would have raised with 99 or 10 10. It was either a fold or all in, and I made the wrong move. Ended up with a winning night but would have been better without this misstep.

Turned out villain had the nut flush draw to my 2nd nut flush/gutshot straight draw... not what I expected or wanted to see.

Stacks:
BB with $3.00
UTG with $21.72
MP with $2.01
BTN with $30.16
SB with $6.32



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Site: Pokerstars
Dealt to BB:J♣ K♣
Sklansky group 3
Preflop:
UTG raises $0.10 to $0.15
1 players fold.
BTN calls [$0.15]
SB calls [$0.13] Hero calls [$0.10]
Total folds this street: 1
Potsize: $0.6
Flop: 10♦ 3♣ 9♣
SB: checks Hero: checks
UTG: checks BTN bets [$0.90]
1 players fold.
Hero raises $1.95 to $2.85 [ all-in ]
1 players fold.
BTN calls [$1.95]
Total folds this street: 2
Potsize: $6.3
Turn: 7♦
Potsize: $6.3
River: 9♦
Results:
Hero shows a pair of Nines: J♣ K♣
BTN shows a pair of Nines - Ace kicker: A♣ 8♣ BTN collected $6 from pot
 
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Don't put results into the posts, it biases the analysis, when you act you're acting against villain's range of hands - the only questions that are interesting for HA purposes are:

1. is calling in the sb pf ok?
2. how should I play the flop, is the c/r ok against a btn who bets 1.5x psb?

Once we call pf, this hand plays itself imo on this flop, esp given effective stacks.
 
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You should buy in full if you think you have an advantage over a game, your just cutting your own losses. Also, the main problem with this hand is that your dominated fairly often and your biggest mistake is pre-flop. This hand is trash v UTG raise. Postflop is fine and you have good equity v a large range of hands.
 
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The guy was pretty aggressive and would have raised with 99 or 10 10.

And he would have had you with either of those.
As someone else stated you should NOT have been playing this hand to begin with.
Just because you are in the blinds doesn't mean you HAVE to defend them.

Also as someone else said, buy in for a larger if not the max amount.
Give yourself some room to work.
If you had a full stack ($5-10) and pushed all an opponent has to think a little longer before calling.

Your chip stack made it too easy for him to gamble.

Glad to hear you had a better night after that.

:cool:
 
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I am still not confident enough to risk a bigger stack at once yet. I did well at 1c/2c levels (10+ BB/100) but am playing at less than 1 BB/100 at the 2c/5c level. Still make bad mistakes occasionally.

Still trying to learn stuff from veterans such as you guys.
 
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I am still not confident enough to risk a bigger stack at once yet. I did well at 1c/2c levels (10+ BB/100) but am playing at less than 1 BB/100 at the 2c/5c level. Still make bad mistakes occasionally.

Still trying to learn stuff from veterans such as you guys.

Perfectly understandable, but I'd suggest going back to 2nl and playing fully loaded and focus on improving your game there, where the cost of a mistake is less than at 5nl - once you're confident that you have a solid approach, go back to 5nl fully loaded, the diff in skill level isn't that great - but scared money (for whatever reason) is always a prob (this is why you see alot of the regs here saying that a 20bi br is not enough). You may pick up some bad habits playing less than fully loaded. ;)
 
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