My 2 pair keeps getting busted by wired sets in Ring games

[katharine]

Aside from betting less aggressively, is there any way to avoid this?

I am newish to ring games (I usually avoid them)

Is it just bad luck? Its happened 3 times today!

I will give you an example: .2-.5 microlimit

Hero: k-10 d one from button raises to .15
Villian is dealer

two players to the flop:
Flop comes: kh 10s 4d
hero bet pot: .30
villian calls
turn 2s:
hero bets .50
villian calls
river: 7h
hero bets: .70
villian calls

villian shows 44
hero mucks k-10


There it is. And it happened again and again...
How do I avoid that at my current limit?

This guy had been playing like a maniac, so I thought I was exploiting his A-k or something.

But instead I lost a big pot.

Ideas? Advice?

 

[Pothole]

Aside from betting less aggressively, is there any way to avoid this?

I am newish to ring games (I usually avoid them)

Is it just bad luck? Its happened 3 times today!

I will give you an example: .2-.5 microlimit

Hero: k-10 d one from button raises to .15
Villian is dealer

two players to the flop:
Flop comes: kh 10s 4d
hero bet pot: .30
villian calls
turn 2s:
hero bets .50
villian calls
river: 7h
hero bets: .70
villian calls

villian shows 44
hero mucks k-10


There it is. And it happened again and again...
How do I avoid that at my current limit?

This guy had been playing like a maniac, so I thought I was exploiting his A-k or something.

But instead I lost a big pot.

Ideas? Advice?

This hand was just a sick situation, you were never folding a flopped 2 pr, and the vill was never folding a flopped set. Any form of ring HE, especially limit, is basically a crap shoot ( why do you think happy hour on FT is only for limit games ) which is why I don't play it. If you want to build a bankroll playing low limit, learn to play Razz, at least you know when your ahead or behind and your draw possibilities so you can push or fold on the cheap.

 

[c9h13no3]

Just a cooler. Bad luck. If you're not spraying chips like a fire hydrant in this situation to all but the nittiest, then you're playing it wrong.