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Poker Stars $0.01/$0.02 No Limit Hold'em $0.01 Ante - 3 players - View hand 2585792
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SB: $6.06
BB: $6.80
Hero (BTN): $5.06

Pre Flop: ($0.06) Hero is BTN with J :spade: T :spade:
Hero raises to $0.08, 1 fold, BB raises to $0.24, Hero calls $0.16

Flop: ($0.52) 9 :diamond: J :heart: 6 :spade: (2 players)
BB bets $0.34, Hero calls $0.34

Turn: ($1.20) 7 :heart: (2 players)
BB bets $0.86, Hero calls $0.86

River: ($2.92) 5 :heart: (2 players)
BB bets $1.46, Hero folds

3 way pot Villain has VPIP 38% PFR 35% AF 4.5 Flop Agg 55% Turn Agg 20% River Agg 67%. Should hero call this ? ( Pot Odds exactly 3:1 on the river )


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VorpalF2F
Joined: 02.09.2010

Disclaimer: I am NOT a coach!;
Some thoughts...
  Good fold on the river, as played.
  I see nothing wrong w/ calling a 3Bet from the blinds w/ JTs
  I HATE donk bets with meh hands. You are totally dominated by AJ-QJ all of which are very strong possibilites.
  OTF you have top pair, a so-so kicker and backdoor draws, but you face a donk bet. What is his range in your opinion?
  OTF make villain put up or shut up. Your turn call cost you 43 big blinds. Why not raise him 35 big blinds on the flop? If he has the goods, he should shove and you can happily fold saving 8BB for later. If he folds -- yippee! If he just calls, he could have straight draws -- this flop texture hits a lot of players BB calling range very nicely.
  you raise 4BB on the BTN -- is this your standard, or did you have a purpose in mind?

Remember "tight aggressive".
Your play in this hand is passive. When you play passively this happens.
By the time you get to the river, you've know idea how strong your hand really is any more.

hint: not very.

Cheers,
--VS


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mbml
Joined: 27.11.2008

1. don't open 4bb from the bu. you should be playing at least 40-50% of hands here, and when your range is so weak you don' twant to be building up the pot so much unless your opponent is really weak on the flop.

2. Calling the 3b is ok, but you need to be comfortable with playing postflop

3. General rule of thumb is to call 2 streets and fold river with TPMK in a 3b pot.

Maybe you could have folded at some earlier point. Don't forget that at NL2, people don't 3bet light.

Think about your own range in his shoes. While not everyone is the same, I'm pretty sure that most guys at NL2 will have 5% or less, and when ranges are so tight, you have a really easy fold pre with JTs, pretty as it might look.

Anyway you guys are deep, so the big raise is ok. Calling is also ok, hand has good straight and flush potential which is great at deeper stacks. He's also pretty loose it seems so his 3b range should be high in this spot. You should be posting his 3b %.

Aggression stats are pretty useless IMO and you can use many other better stats like flop cbet, turn cbet, preflop 3bet in BB vs BU


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