Flop Set

ztw30

ztw30

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Stacks:
BTN with $4.73
SB with $0.96
BB with $4.56
UTG with $1.82
UTG+1 with $3.40
MP1 with $1.45
MP2 with $5.70
MP3 with $1.26
CO with $3.37



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Blinds: $0.00/$0.00
Site: pokerstars
Dealt to UTG:9♣ 9♠
Sklansky group 3
Preflop:
Hero raises $0.06 to $0.08
1 players fold.
MP1 calls [$0.08]
MP2 raises $0.16 to $0.24
5 players fold.
Hero calls [$0.16]
MP1 calls [$0.16]
Total folds this street: 6
Potsize: $0.75
Flop:
9♦ 5♠ 8♥
Hero: checks
MP1 bets [$1.21] [ all-in ]
MP2 raises $3.02 to $4.23
Hero calls [$1.58] [ all-in ]
Uncalled bet ($2.65) returned to MP2
Potsize: $7.77
Turn:
10♣
Potsize: $7.77
River:
7♠
Results:
Hero shows three of a kind, Nines:
9♣ 9♠
MP2 doesn't show.
Hero collected $0.69 from side pot
MP1 shows a straight, Six to Ten:
5♥ 6♥
MP1 collected $4.18 from main pot





Just have to ask this guy belittled me for the call so was it correct or wrong?
 
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mallyworld

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He belittled you? He got lucky and caught the river...you had them dominated from the get go.
 
ztw30

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I know i just need some advice if anyone would play this different.
 
scphillips87

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I would do the same thing. He can't be that dumb to belittle you, he must have just tried getting in your head.
 
shinedown.45

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you played it fine, you got in with the best hand and got donked.
This type of play be a winning play more times than not.
 
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There are many details missing here, esp. regarding the table play to that point (loose/tight), quality of players, your image etc.

Hindsight here is 20/20, so I'll try not let that to influence what I'm about to wrote.

But in general, I find that opening a pot with a 4x BB, UTG w/ 99 is a over-betting a medium pair. That is, you have:
* Put more money into the pot than the hand is worth
* many players behind you, and you are inviting multiple calls, which you don't want w/99
* you are also inviting a big reraise against a stronger pocket pair (and you've got 8 betters behind you!); often someone holding AA/KK will raise moderately (like your 4x opener) into limping callers to drive out the weak and isolate the strong HU, but not cause all players to fold. They want a caller, possibly two. However, when those same hands see a strong, early re-raise, they will raise much bigger (10x+), calculating that you have a strong hand (you don't, BTW) and will call. They're sucking you into a bigger pot.

99 will fare poorly if an overcard flops. You want, ideally, either a big pot heads up, where you are 53% vs. 47% against a pair of overcards, or to see a **cheap** multiplayer pot and hope to flop the set.

As to your flop play, your set is 2nd nuts, but, *** given the apparant looseness of this table***, flopping the straight is not out of the question, nor is a very aggressive semi-bluff (which is what happened).

Checking and calling AllIn, I think, is correct. That villian raised AI w/ weak 2nd pair and gutshot is a "mistake that paid". File that one under "Donkeys Have to Eat Too" and make a note of this players poor play.
 
KardKlub

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The problem with low limits is alot of people play suited connector( how ever low) You where just unlucky this time. In the long run you'd take all his money. Gee all he was playing with was 5's and an inside straight draw on the turn.

Chin up mate
 
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I take it this is 2nl. (.01/.02)? The guy called you a donkey which he shouldn't have but you did make a mistake set mining in a 3-bet pot. Because of the size of your stack here when MP2 raised you, you are no longer getting the implied odds necessary to make set mining a profitable play.

As for raising your 99's, that is fine. If you always limp/call your pocket pairs people will know what you are doing if they are paying attention, not that a lot of players pay attention at 2nl. But if you are going to raise then you need to fold to his 3-bet in this spot depeding on your reads of the opponent.
 
FereZ

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You played rightly, but he just caught it from river..
You had there very strong hand.. Donkeys =/ BAD LUCK.
 
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