At my level which isn't anywhere near expert I tend to play solid,I c bet nearly every pot and before hand usually take control from position with a 5 x raise to punish the limpers. I have 7-10 offsuit and the flop goes 55-7 Everyone checks I bet 2 callers. Turn rolls a 6 they check I bet I win.
This is how I play small pots and medium pots of course we have different hands sometimes I miss or have AA-AQ suited etc and trap.. I mix it up sometimes raise pre flop UTG with 5-6 of suit and try to hit a flop it works well im tricky im no rock and against the right players which are loose or passive and one maniac I win as I call him with 10-10 all in when i got him covered quite often and take his chips so im balanced.
Now my problem lies when I imply this small ball tricky strategy to great chess type players here's an example. I'm on the button with k-j suited I raise 5 x to 4 limpers everyone calls. Flop= 3-8-10 everyone checks I bet 2 folders 2 callers. Turn flows a blank 6 it goes check,check I bet one fold one reraise min I just call. It's heads up 3-8-10-6-2 I miss he misses I assume he has ace high I sometimes check/check,but when I bet here I get reraised often here a little and I dump it. Where am I missing out here I could have 10-J-AK-Q9 suited wide range but I missed where do I capitalize here against good players who also have air,or just a pair who knows?
Alright, I'm a little late, but here goes..... I have bolded some sections above.... take a look in the quote above before moving on to the next paragraph.
Are you a live player? This sounds like live 1/2 game.
Starting with the top, cbet nearly every flop....... You are c-betting in MW pots with very little
equity, very little chance to improve, and you are barreling on bad runouts. Big leak. C-betting more than 3w (including you, 2 opponents) with air is not mathematically profitable long term bro.
With the 10-7, why are you betting twice here? The way you describe it, you are turning this hand into a bluff? But you have a pair. I don't understand. Don't you think betting twice here is pretty thin? I feel like your thought process is flawed man, not trying to be a jerk, just telling you to help you.
When you are betting the 10-7, what are you trying to do? get value? make everyone fold? Why are you even playing 10-7o pre in the first place? What is your reasoning for playing a hand this bad?
It's pretty simple.... Fundamentals. We bet for value, or as a bluff. I think you don't really understand that concept by reading your posts.
let's move on to next bolded section...
You have AA or whatever, then you try to trap. Why? You have it backwards. They limp call raises when you have lol bad hands, then you get good hands, and trap? This is just WOW man. You could probably use your spewy image to get max value with premiums, yet you don't? This seems silly to me.
Next bold section, raising 6-5o UTG. This is atrocious dude. In the games you're in, it's not really necessary to "balance" UTG range, or whatever man. And even if it were, 6-5o is like a TERRIBLE hand to choose to try and balance yourself UTG.
If you want to improve, stop doing this immediately.
Last bold part......K-Js.
So you raise LP with KJs into a bunch of limpers. Like it.
We go MW to flop 10-8-3r,
5 ways to this flop
Checks to you, and you bet.
Let's talk about this decision right here. Why would you cbet bluff here into 4 opponents? Tell me your reasoning.
My reasoning is this, we are MW, a cbet is never EVER gonna get through 4 players. We don't even a have a gutter. Just 2 over cards. 6 outs to improve. This is a check back on the flop 1000% of the time. We should not be cbetting here.
So we pick up two callers, and go to the turn 10-8-3.....turn 6.
Checks to you again.
Are even thinking about what these people have? 7-9 gets there. 10x isnt folding. We still don't have anything, no gutter, no pair, no draw.......
We bet again, and you get minraised, and you call? Explain this to me. Why would you decide to call a minraise with K-high?
So then the HH becomes unclear after that. It looks like dude checks a brick river and you bet. Don't do that.
So, I know I can be blunt. I am trying to help, honestly man. I'm gonna give it to you straight up bro, no BS.
You play way too many hands, you have leaks like a submarine with a screen door on it, and you don't have much of a thought process. It seems you don't hand read at all, and you just try to win every pot. All the luck in the world will not help you win if you play this way. You may win once in a while, but over a larger sample, you will spew money at an astonishing rate.
My advice to you......
Develop some sort of preflop range. A respectable, tight range. Stop playing hands that are terrrible. Stop bluffing, especially in multiway pots. You aren't a good enough hand reader to bluff. So stop it.
Be humble. If you want to get good, take a step back, and realize you have a ton of work to do.
You play a tight respectable range, and that range is super duper tight in EP, like AQo+, AJs+, 10-10+. That is your UTG raising range.
As for LP, the worst hand you should ever raise is 9-8s, maybe even J-10s. All small PPs you limp, flop a set or get out. No set, no bet.
Keep it simple, play tight, and mostly straight forward, and you will win. You need to exercise the self control and discipline to fold trash hands and be patient.
After you perfect this strategy, like a legit sample of playing tight, not getting out of line, and gaining experience, you can open up ranges, very slowly...... like very very slowly introduce new hands, etc.
I used to be terrible at poker as well. This is what I did to improve.
I'm trying to help you, and I hope you don't take offense to my blunt write up.
GL bro.
