A fish with ambitions of becoming a shark

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K1ngW1zard

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Hi!

I've got a lot of questions for you more experienced players. I guess I am what you guys would call a fish.. Not that I necessarily make fish moves but I've only been playing for two months now (NL hold'em only).

As said before I have a ton of questions but first of I would like to get your opinions on the micro tables. I had this happen to me about an hour ago:

I wake up with pocket Ace's in a full ring 0,05/0,10 game, in middleposition, facing a 3xraise and a call. I squeezed (that's what it's called, right?) raising x3 times the original raise and everyone to my left folds. The original raiser folds (I've been playing real tight and I think he understood what I was holding) but the caller (utg+1, I believe he was) calls.
The flop comes: 5h-9s-6s and I know this isn't a dry flop but I C-bet it and he calls. I'm guessing either he has a draw or maybe a pocket pair as well..
Turn comes: 3h and I know feel a little bit better about it all and I bet again but he calls. Now I'm even more certain about him having a pocket pair, perheps three of a kind so I slow down on the river which is a: 8d. I check and he bet's about half the pot (sorry I don't remember the size of the pot but I was fully commited to it. So I call and he wins with two pair (he had 8-6 off) and I kind understood that I was beaten before I called but I just had to call..

How you guys feel about my actions versus his actions? I personally think I did nothing wrong during this play and I felt like he made a really bad play and got lucky? Or is it reasonable to call with 8-6 off to a big squeeze? Again, I've only been playing for a while but I have ambitions of moving up to higher stakes and I have hard time believing that that's a reasonable call with more money on the line? I should add that all my betting post flop was about half pot until I slowed down..

I'm only here to get your opinions on what I could have done different in this situation and I'm only here to learn, so please be gentle, haha!

English isn't my native language so I'm sorry in advance for any grammar mistakes or misspelling?

I appreciate any of your thoughts!


Thank's!
 
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I wake up with pocket Ace's in a full ring 0,05/0,10 game, in middleposition, facing a 3xraise and a call. I squeezed (that's what it's called, right?) raising x3 times the original raise

First of all if you're just starting out then you should'nt be playing 5c/10c, unless you've got plenty of money to lose. Try 1c/2c or 2c/5c as a starting point, the games are much softer there. Your 3x raise is too small given that one person called, and you're also out of position (or were you? you say you checked and called the river but then you say you were in middle position after a raise and a call). Either way I would raise at least 4x here to accommodate for the call.


The original raiser folds (I've been playing real tight and I think he understood what I was holding)

This is the kind of logic that gets people into trouble at these limits. People playing 10nl and lower generally aren't that observant about other players' tendencies unless they're a good reg. If you have never bluff and suddenly decide to try a triple barrel bluff thinking "I've got an image as a really timid player who never bluffs so they're not going to call unless they have the nuts". This is burning money because at these limits people generally only care about their hole cards not what you're representing.

Betting half pot on the flop is too small. It seems this player is a complete fish given that he called a 3 bet with 86o. I'd go ahead and bet 3/4 to full pot since there will be a lot of draws and combo draws in his range that you'll want to charge him with. Of course he may have you beat sometimes so if he raises at any point consider folding as he's showing a lot of strength, otherwise you have to assume you have the best hand. The river card is clearly not a good card for you as a lot of his draws/combos improved to hands that beat you. The river call is a tough spot since some aggro fish will just bet whenever checked to, and it is only half pot so you only have to be right about 25% of the time. But assuming he's a typical loose passive fish then he's only going to be betting the river with hands that beat you.

So yes he got lucky and is clearly a fish but you could also have played the hand better.
 
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jj20002

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86o is not playable at all in a full ring against a 3bet, but once he paid you have nothing but the best pair

however Aces still could be beat it by any stronger than a pair, so with such a flop and against a villain you could consider put your villain in a allin mod, so a big cbet around a pot will be good, if he fold you won a good pot, if he keeps going then the turn bet again around the pot, because 80% of the time you are going to win with pocket aces against one villain

dont be worry about a lonely hand, because for every hand like that you will get 4 or 5 good pots against similar players
 
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