Tricky spot with pocket 10s

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Tricky123bet

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So I started playing poker on pokerstars last weekend. Before that I've been playing poker for almost a year, on the free poker App wsop, downloaded from Play store. Although poker is not a very new concept for me, I realize I'm still quite a newbie. This is my first post here so please be gentle :)

So this hand i played was at a playmoney zoom table, blinds 5/10, max buy-in 1000. Players at that level is obviously very fishy, making big raises and all-ins and often calling with absolute trash hands. Maybe not the best place to increase your skill level, but I prefer a soft start before moving on to the real money tables.

Anyway, here's the hand info:

PokerStars Zoom Hand #159206497301: Hold'em No Limit (5/10) - 2016/09/28 18:51:19 EET [2016/09/28 11:51:19 ET]
Table 'NLHE 5/10 9 max' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: ais03 (1121 in chips)
Seat 2: playswell (3611 in chips)
Seat 3: Tricky123bet (6929 in chips)
Seat 4: tylertroiano (1934 in chips)
Seat 5: johny6218 (970 in chips)
Seat 6: sasha0057 (884 in chips)
Seat 7: bolivar3410 (9603 in chips)
Seat 8: luukske19 (1875 in chips)
Seat 9: Lecktor61 (7400 in chips)
playswell: posts small blind 5
Tricky123bet: posts big blind 10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Tricky123bet [Th Tc]
tylertroiano: folds
johny6218: calls 10
sasha0057: folds
bolivar3410: calls 10
luukske19: folds
Lecktor61: calls 10
ais03: folds
playswell: calls 5
Tricky123bet: raises 40 to 50
johny6218: folds
bolivar3410: calls 40
Lecktor61: calls 40
playswell: folds
*** FLOP *** [Qc 9s Td]
Tricky123bet: bets 190
bolivar3410: calls 190
Lecktor61: raises 730 to 920
Tricky123bet: raises 5959 to 6879 and is all-in
bolivar3410: calls 6689
Lecktor61: raises 471 to 7350 and is all-in
bolivar3410: calls 471
*** TURN *** [Qc 9s Td] [Kh]
*** RIVER *** [Qc 9s Td Kh] [Ah]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
bolivar3410: shows [6h Qh] (a pair of Queens)
Lecktor61: shows [Jh Kc] (a straight, Ten to Ace)
Lecktor61 collected 899 from side pot
Tricky123bet: shows [Th Tc] (three of a kind, Tens)
Lecktor61 collected 19871 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 21749 Main pot 19871. Side pot 899. | Rake 979
Board [Qc 9s Td Kh Ah]
Seat 1: ais03 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: playswell (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: Tricky123bet (big blind) showed [Th Tc] and lost with three of a kind, Tens
Seat 4: tylertroiano folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: johny6218 folded before Flop
Seat 6: sasha0057 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: bolivar3410 showed [6h Qh] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 8: luukske19 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: Lecktor61 showed [Jh Kc] and won (20770) with a straight, Ten to Ace

So my thinking goes like this:

Preflop there is the usual amount of limpers, and I hold a pretty strong hand, so I decide to thin out the field a little bit, so I get either heads up or at least 3 ways with the hand. I could have raised it bigger to about 70 or 80, but in my experience the players at these tables will fold the same amount of hands to a smaller bet, as they will to a standard raise.

Flop a middle set, obviously happy, since there are lots of worse hands on that board that will call me down, so I try and go for three streets of value, starting with a bet slightly bigger than the pot on the flop. I figure hands like AK, AQ, AJ, A10, two pairs, any J, and some gutshots are gonna stick around.

Player behind me calls and the other player 3bets to a big size. At this point I know this player must have a pretty good hand. I 4bet all-in though, since I know he is calling me with hands like AQ, OESDs, all two pair combinations and 99. I'm not too worried about the player acting behind me, since he can have any single pair and any kind of straight draw.

Unfortuantely the 3bettor shows KJ, for the nut straight. The other player shows Q6 for top pair, which I kinda expected. I do still have 30% equity though, which is great, given KJ is one of the only hands he has in that spot that beats me. QQ is most often not limp-calling pre-flop, and he could have J8, but that's pretty unlikely.

Should I have made a bigger raise pre-flop, or is checking even an option?
Is there any way I could just call the huge 3bet on the flop, risking to let a bad card come on the turn, and I might have a difficult decision on the turn if he bets again? What line do you think I should take on the flop?


Happy to see what you think about this hand! As I mentioned, first time posting a hand on any poker forum for that matter, so any suggestions of what else I could have included in my post is very much appreciated. :)
 
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I think getting it in on the flop is just fine, and exactly what I would have done.
 
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You couldn't really do much else in a multi pot.
 
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It is amazing, even on cash tables, how often your scenario plays out. Even if he doesn't flop the straight, he probably plays it out to the end, and he has 2 streets to make his hand if board doesn't pair. You are correct that play money tables are often much looser than real money, but not always. I think you made the correct decision with the information available to you, and got unlucky. It happens. Tough to fold a set on the flop. I know. Even if the flop was all 1 suit.
 
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You played it well. Anyone who could have guessed a nut straight was against you is a liar. it's hard to fold 3 of a kind, and remember, you could have saw another pair on the board and sank his straight (in another scenerio). Keep at it :)
 
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I don't think seeing the nut straight is far fetched, but with trip tens I would probably still play the hand the same way
 
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Thanks for all of your replies. Took a while for me to find my own post, couldn't find it in the list of the "learning poker" category lol. :eek:
 
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how to find your own messages

Thanks for all of your replies. Took a while for me to find my own post, couldn't find it in the list of the "learning poker" category lol. :eek:

if you click on "User CP" you can see your last posts and your last threads
 
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There are other hands he could have called with, but your a lot of bbs deep so in a real $ game prob find a fold
 
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