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Gwesyn
Joined: 31.05.2011

Hi all,

I have been playing poker for approx. 5 years and have read quite a few books. I also watch a lot of pro playing hands on you Tube. I am however what you call a fish and am certainly not a consistently winning player. I have plenty of enthusiasm however and am willing to learn.

I tried 30NL and would welcome feedback on the hand that I post below. I realise that this is way above my normal level but just gave it a go. Firstly some background to the hand that I wish to post. - I lost half my fist buy in on a pre flop raising war with junk and after rebuying lost my whole stack on an elaborate bluff! I shoved the river to get called with a flopped set! I since however doubled up after rivering a full house v Aces.

I think it's fair to say I had the reputation of a maniac and the player to my left was playing back a fair amount and was reluctant to get run over. I however was letting my ego get the better of me and was keen to boss the table (this is despite my acknowledging that I am a fish). I do think the player to my left would raise a wide range of hands to my raise and call an equally wide range making his range very wide pre-flop. The initial raiser in the hand below was in my opinion raising his strong hands 3x and his weaker range 2x - hence my raise on the button. That's a background to the hand - (perhaps a feeble attempt to excuse my bad play) I welcome your views (no matter how derogatory - please pile on the feedback) to the following (We both have over 180BBS):

UTG Fold
UTG1 raise to 2BB
MP Fold
Hero (BTN) 6c3s raises to 7BB
Villans (SB) calls
BB Folds
UTG1 Folds

Pot - 17BBs

Flop - 7sJh6d

SB Checks
Hero Bets 12 - 13BBs
SB Calls

Pot - 42.5BBs
Turn 8h

SB Check
Hero Check

Pot - (42.5BBs)
River Jc
Villan Bets Pot (42.5BBs)
Hero??????

Spoiler

Call - villan shows 53h


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SDK1987
Joined: 12.11.2008

First, I have fixed your spoiler. There was nothing in your spoiler.

63o is a weak hand to 3bet bluff at and I wouldn’t only do it your reads are correct and he folds a lot if he min raised like now, because the hand has almost no playability post-flop if he’s calling.
Especially when you are on tilt it’s not the best moment do something funky and I would most likely quit the game.

As played I would most likely Cbet as well and give up turn and river if we don’t improve our pair. Now he’s pot betting the river and you should have good reads that he bluffing a lot when he’s pot betting. Otherwise you will lose a lot of money on long run if you call with only a pair here.

Cheers,
SDK1987


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la55i
Joined: 27.01.2013

So you are playing like a maniac, 3betting 63o pre and villain knows this and adapts by flatting 53. I think at this point it is very difficult to give you good advice since you are not playing standard poker and neither are your villains.
I wouldn't for example call OTR but if your table image affects your villain that much, then you ofc have to adapt :)


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Gwesyn
Joined: 31.05.2011

Thanks guys - will defo cut out the 63o raises and try to stop playing when on tilt!:f_thumbsup:


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FrozenElf
Joined: 06.07.2015

Read the basic fundamentals and master them


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