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Topset on suited coordinated "baby"-flop

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clovenhoofsdoom
Joined: 04.03.2016

Dear folks,

today was a very black friday for my bankroll. I've made many stupid decisions where I knew they weren't reasonable and I was always exactly right with the handreading. I got coolered some times in big pots and a very lot of the time I just did not hit anything and then got somehow mad because I saw soooo many stupid honks betting 4th pair twice and 3betting shit and get away.
I want to share 2 hands with you. Again, I apologize for not being able to convert hands into a format. Maybe someone can link me to a readme for one of those hand converters?

First hand, I am the Cutoff with 8d8s and open to 3bb. BU calls, SB folds, BB calls. Stacks of those two were plus minus 100 BB, I were on 170 BB.

Flop comes 4s5s8c

BB checks, I bet 6,5BB into a 9,5 BB Pot. Button raises to 15 BB, BB folds, I was thinking, mhh 67, huh? And then I 3bet to 45 BB, got the 4bet-push and called with topset, a 8-high bd-flushdraw, 6 outs to a fullhouse and 1 out to the quads.

Long story short, I was right, BB showed 6c7c.

For your information, Turn comes Ah, River 7s and Button wins 204,5 BB.

I do not know at which point the mistake has been made, or if it even was a mistake to stack off with topset on this board (but I guess). I mean, I don't think anyone other than a shortie stacks off light on such a texture, but there are some combos I believe that also stack off like bottom or mid-set, maybe oesd+flushdraw, sometimes you also see Aces or Kings then or just complete Air (which would be clearly a mistake)

It would be appreciated if you share your thoughts on this.


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LimitlessExp
Joined: 09.04.2015

Your thinking is correct, he could've easily had lower set, 54, over pairs, or even air on NL2. Shit happens sometimes. Just try not to tilt after such spots.


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Alleen86
Joined: 27.05.2010

The hand is played totaly fine, you don't have to worry. Many times we will lose even though we play the hand just right. If you have mental game problems (and you probably do because 99,9% of microstakes players, including me, do), I recommend you to invest into "The Mental Game of Poker" book and not just read it, but do stuff it tells you to do. For me it works very well for now.

First of all, you should know that the variance will have a big impact to your short-term results (like in this hand above), but the fact is that you can't control the variance, so you need to learn about it, understand it, but not focus on it in terms of being angry. If the variance in poker doesn't exist, bad players wouldn't play poker because they would always lose. So we should actually be happy that there is a variance. In the long run players with better skills will win, that is for sure, so you should focus on your skills in the short-term.


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nitrol
Joined: 24.07.2010

I like how you played. It is a cooler. Do not bother much. You should get it in with the top set in this situation.


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Hesticus
Joined: 24.06.2008

This is a cooler indeed. Wp dude


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clovenhoofsdoom
Joined: 04.03.2016

Sweet :) thanks, guys!


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