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Freeroll88
Rising Star
Bronze Level
Hi all. As the subject states, this is my first post to the forum. I just began playing poker again and have decided to make a real effort at become a winning player. I work minutes from my local casino; I plan on working my full time job, and playing 15-20 hours per week while building a bank roll.
The issue: I'm having trouble following my reads, and I wind up calling off my stack, or a large portion with a worse hand.
Note that I'm playing 1/2 nl live, buying in for $200. The hand I'll post tonight is two pair where I put in $120 of my remaining stack with two pair.
Since doing some off the table studying, I've decided to take a more conservative approach to the game while I become more comfortable with positional play and reading the table. With that said I have played pretty solid ABC poker for the first couple hours. Made two 3-bets on the button, one fairly light with AJo and again with AKo. Openers folded to me both times.
Onto the hand..
10 players
Hero: $180
Villain: $300+
Hero: SB with Kc4c
Villain: UTG1 77 (fish)
Villain is first limper followed by 3-4 more limps. I add the dollar.
Flop: 9c7dKs
Hero: bets 8
Villain: calls
Table folds
Turn: 4
Hero: bets 15
Villain: raises to 40
River: 3 (no flush/straight possibilities)
Hero: checks
Villain: bets 70
Hero: calls and loses to 77
On the turn I was concerned. My thought process was maybe he limped with 79 suited, K9 or has 77. I figured he'd raise his 99, Ak, KQ hands preflop. I called the raise anyway with my two pair.
River is a 3 and I check for pot control but plan to call his bet on the river. He quickly makes it 70 and again I'm thinking the worst he has is 79 and why would he limp with 79 UTG1.
All other two pair combos off the flop or sets have me beat. There is no flush to bluff, and I cant imagine he'd ever play 810 this way. I was fairly certain, given the dry board, his limp, and his turn / river aggression that he had to have K9 or 77. I don't believe I saw him 3 bet once in the two hours I sat down.
I called anyway and lost over 65% of my stack in the hand.
I'm looking for some advice on how this hand played out, and if this should be an easy fold moving forward. I tend to have reads like this often, but call off a large portion anyway. Any advice / critisism is appreciated. His smug look told me he wasn't worried at all about a call. I should have folded.
The issue: I'm having trouble following my reads, and I wind up calling off my stack, or a large portion with a worse hand.
Note that I'm playing 1/2 nl live, buying in for $200. The hand I'll post tonight is two pair where I put in $120 of my remaining stack with two pair.
Since doing some off the table studying, I've decided to take a more conservative approach to the game while I become more comfortable with positional play and reading the table. With that said I have played pretty solid ABC poker for the first couple hours. Made two 3-bets on the button, one fairly light with AJo and again with AKo. Openers folded to me both times.
Onto the hand..
10 players
Hero: $180
Villain: $300+
Hero: SB with Kc4c
Villain: UTG1 77 (fish)
Villain is first limper followed by 3-4 more limps. I add the dollar.
Flop: 9c7dKs
Hero: bets 8
Villain: calls
Table folds
Turn: 4
Hero: bets 15
Villain: raises to 40
River: 3 (no flush/straight possibilities)
Hero: checks
Villain: bets 70
Hero: calls and loses to 77
On the turn I was concerned. My thought process was maybe he limped with 79 suited, K9 or has 77. I figured he'd raise his 99, Ak, KQ hands preflop. I called the raise anyway with my two pair.
River is a 3 and I check for pot control but plan to call his bet on the river. He quickly makes it 70 and again I'm thinking the worst he has is 79 and why would he limp with 79 UTG1.
All other two pair combos off the flop or sets have me beat. There is no flush to bluff, and I cant imagine he'd ever play 810 this way. I was fairly certain, given the dry board, his limp, and his turn / river aggression that he had to have K9 or 77. I don't believe I saw him 3 bet once in the two hours I sat down.
I called anyway and lost over 65% of my stack in the hand.
I'm looking for some advice on how this hand played out, and if this should be an easy fold moving forward. I tend to have reads like this often, but call off a large portion anyway. Any advice / critisism is appreciated. His smug look told me he wasn't worried at all about a call. I should have folded.