$5 NLHE Full Ring: did i play this bad?

$5 NL HE Full Ring: did i play this bad?

just sat down at the table. no real reads on the villain

Full Tilt, $0.02/$0.05 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 8 Players
Hand History Converter by Stoxpoker

MP3: $5 (100 bb)
CO: $4.62 (92.4 bb)
Hero (BTN): $5.14 (102.8 bb)
SB: $4.67 (93.4 bb)
BB: $12.03 (240.6 bb)
UTG+2: $0.93 (18.6 bb)
MP1: $2.94 (58.8 bb)
MP2: $0.80 (16 bb)

Pre-Flop: Hero is BTN with A A
4 folds, CO raises to $0.10, Hero raises to $0.30, SB folds, BB calls $0.25, CO folds

Flop: ($0.72) 3 K 6 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $0.55, BB raises to $1.50, Hero raises to $4.84 and is all-in, BB calls $3.34

Turn: ($10.40) 4 (2 players, 1 is all-in)
River: ($10.40) J (2 players, 1 is all-in)

Standard. Although you might make the preflop 3bet a little bigger.

Glad to see you posting in HA but remember to try to post hands that don't play themselves. In other words, post hands that you think you screwed up on, not just hands that you might have lost.

When you get a chance go through your db for a few hands where the final pot was in the 30bb to 60bb range. Find a hand where you bet the river and lost, one where you bet the river and your opponent called with worse, and one where you checked behind on the river and won. Don't tell us anything other than the action up to the river and any reads/stats you might have had.

looks fine to me, I think you can get away with a bigger 3bet preflop though.

Bad players don't fold, don't pay attention, and as such you can adjust your bet size to suit your needs without worrying about balance or tipping your opponent or whatever, so just 3bet bigger for value.

Postflop you're never ever folding.

so do you guys know what the villain had without me telling you? lol smarties

well we can't pin him on a single hand.

His range includes mostly Kx hands, some sets, occasionally 45, and once in a blue moon something random like 67s.

alright well ill post results tomorrow?

PattyR said:

so do you guys know what the villain had without me telling you? lol smarties

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Well since you posted it, with the action I'd say precisely KJ.

But like Chuck says the man has a range and you're crushing it.

Rainbow flop. Standard situation all in on the flop

I don't know the outcome of the hand as i'm posting before reading the rest of the thread an it may have been noted in the thread. You played it fine. 3-bet more, ESPECIALLY at 5nl, the players are so loose that they'll call a much larger 3bet.

Played fine IMO. Got it in when you were ahead right?

My guess would be AK

Hope i am right and u took it down

Lazmansa

WVHillbilly said:

Well since you posted it, with the action I'd say precisely KJ.

But like Chuck says the man has a range and you're crushing it.

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Damn, you beat me to it , the fact you posted it and it sounds like you lost, this is the most likely hand of his range.

Lazmansa said:

My guess would be AK

Hope i am right and u took it down

Lazmansa

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AK would probably get more aggro pre-flop, but it is 5nl.

results ?

I agree OP played it fine. I'm surprised no one has mentioned the idea of calling the flop raise on such a dry board and letting villain donk off his chips to us with position on the turn. At this level, shoving is probably the better play, but I think this alternative is worth noting anyway.

WVHillbilly said:

Well since you posted it, with the action I'd say precisely KJ.

But like Chuck says the man has a range and you're crushing it.

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I was going to say KT, with no flush draw on the board the re-raise doesn't look like a set, but at 5nl who knows?

Its difficult to say without knowing more about this villians general post flop play.

EDIT: I have just figured why you said KJ!! Yeah I'm going for KJ

sorry bout the delay..i dont know where the hand history is. but villain turned over a set of 6's

Like Chuck and WV say, other than making the raise pre larger it's standard.

If you're worried about whether you should have expected 66/22 after the check-raise, I don't think so at this level.

There's too many hands that you beat that might play this way; any K or even JJ/TT/99 thinking that you've missed the flop. Unless you have a read (ie. he's normally passive postflop or you know that he's a good player) that would lead you to narrow his range to hands that beat you, I think paying off a set is fine here, because, readless, more often you will be ahead rather than behind.