Anything wrong with this? or just bad draw

So tell me, did I play this wrong? I put the guy on A rag from the get go, is it a wrong call here sitting with top pairand decent kicker?




Stacks:
* MP1 with $2.35
* MP2 with $1.95
* MP3 with $6.10
* CO with $1.85
* BTN with $1.85
* SB with $2.30
* BB with $5.40
* UTG with $5.05
* UTG+1 with $3.90




Blinds: $0.00/$0.00
Site: full tilt poker
* * Dealt to UTG:K♣ T♦
* * Sklansky group 6
Preflop:
* * Hero calls [$0.10]
* * Hero+1 raises to $0.45
* * 7 players fold.
* * Hero calls [$0.35]
* * Total folds this street: 7
* * Potsize: $1.05
Flop:
* * 7♦ 2♠ 10♥
* * Hero checks
* * Hero+1 bets [$0.60]
* * Hero raises to $1.20
* * Hero+1 raises to $3.45, and is all in
* * Hero calls [$2.25] Hero+1 shows :
* * A♦ 9♠ Hero shows :
* * K♣ 10♦
* * Potsize: $7.95
Turn:
* * 3♦
* * Potsize: $7.95
River:
* * A♠ Hero+1 shows a pair of Aces
* * Hero shows a pair of Tens Hero+1 wins the pot ($7.20) with a pair of Aces

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So many bad things here:

1st you open limped UTG with KTos. This should be instamuck, every time. If you insist on playing it at least raise.

2nd you flat UTG+1's raise OOP.

3rd when you hit TP on the flop you check/min-raise. Checking is bad, but then min-raising is even worse.

I have to ask when exactly (and why) you thought he had A-rag? Because the way the hand played out I would have never thought that until the hands were shown.

As for the result, who cares. You shouldn't have lost a dime on this hand.

I put him on Ace rag when he raised preflop, I have only seen the guy raise when he had an ace so far. I had been sitting at the table for about 50 or so hands along side him.
I think it has been about 15 hands with nothing but rags so I was kind of excited to see K 10 and wanted to play it win or lose heh.
The bad betting is just me I am learning to control them but still my goofy betting practices show up hand after hand.

deadhxc said:

I put him on Ace rag when he raised preflop, I have only seen the guy raise when he had an ace so far. I had been sitting at the table for about 50 or so hands along side him.
I think it has been about 15 hands with nothing but rags so I was kind of excited to see K 10 and wanted to play it win or lose heh.
The bad betting is just me I am learning to control them but still my goofy betting practices show up hand after hand.

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Ok, so preflop if we assign him a range of any ace / KT+/TT+ (remember always a range of hands) you decided to call his raise OOP with ~25% equity. Folding 15 hands is nothing. Think of it as practice for the next time you have to fold 30 hands in a row.

Thanks and yea every hand I play now I see as a learning experience and practice.

Appreciate the advice!

As played stacking on the flop is obviously fine vs this guy since he completely sucks.

But yea easy open fold preflop and even after you make a bad limp this is an easy easy fold to the raise, seeing as your hand completely sucks and you are out of position.

General tips:

NEVER limp utg and only open with a very tight range (like ajs+ aqo+ 88+ or something).

Be VERY careful about calling raises/3 bets when oop. Make sure you have a plan for the hand and just don't do it with shit like kto which is easily dominated and just a crap crap hand.

So just concentrate on ploaying position...tighten up alot ep and open up on teh co/button.

I agree with feitr for the most part. I think at these limits you can probably open limp with small PP and nobody will notice thats the only hand you will do it with. This will not work moving up limits though, you will either have to start raising or balance your range with other hands. Raising is an option as well obviously. I also say you can play any PP profitably at these levels with sufficiently deep stacks even UTG.

oh yea limping with 22-77 is fine. I'm in 6 max mode i guess where obviously you don't limp anything from utg and in any case limping from UTG just doesn't work once you get to nl100 FR or even nl50 coz you are always punished. But i i remember for nl25 and under limping with a pp utg worked perfectly fine.

So sorry about that...i honestly actually forgot that you could limp anything utg and not get isolated from somebody in position everytime lol. It is very exploitable once you move up the limits unless you are like a genius at limp raising and playing oop, because your range is so narrow and since you are oop you just get raped on most boards since it is pretty easy for villain to see what boards miss you.