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Help with a few hands played like a fish

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MarsellusW
Joined: 02.09.2007

My newborn blog is gonna die quickly lol...

The following hands happened within the last hour (plus AA vs KK with K river but I'm not posting it ofc). The good thing is I clearly identified a leak in my game, the bad thing is it seems I'm not capable to adjust and fix it.

These few hands literally kill my winrate. Any tip you may have to help me learn and change my behavior is very welcome.

HAND 1

HAND 2

HAND 3

HAND 4


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1) Fold preflop. Very loose open raise. You need tight/nitty table to justify it. Check/fold OTF. Without information you should fold OTR

2) For this price you could defend preflop. OTF i like it. OTT is okay. But you should fold OTR.

3) Preflop fine. OTF fine. OTT terrible mistake. Why do you check there? With 2 flush draws and qualified fish you could shove

4) Preflop fine. OTF you could raise. But bare in mind that you should fold against shove. Your hand is almost always not good against tight stack off range. As played you could justify a small raise for value OTR but you need info. Otherwise just call.

All in all terribly played hands. You fall inlove way too much with your holdings and dont know where button fold is.


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mkBISCUIT
Joined: 19.01.2018

first hand- bad flop for your range, probably wouldnt c-bet. then the rest plays itself, kinda a cooler nothing you could do. Maybe you can fold if you really know villain. I can see a jam with worst here, like 2 pair and sets at this level.

3nd hand, why check turn after a raise, Would suggest going all in on turn, as spr is to small. kinda an unlucky flop for you, but there is also a possibility of someone having KQ as well even with your blocker also some sets. His bet lead, most of the time is someone trying to see the turn cheap.. Unlucky again i think.

4rd hand, raise on river is a little silly, what call you that is worse, Q2,Q8, J8,J2 maybe AK. Villain is playing pretty aggressively. Think you just need to call down anyway. he gets lucky and hits the 8.

looks pretty much like all 3 hands are just the nature of poker.

I missed the second hand, I know its hard and frustrating, but you will need to learn to fold hands, 4 to a flush double check and then villain rips. just fold. Flop raise was good just unlucky with run out.


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VorpalF2F
Joined: 02.09.2010

In general, I agree with most of the comments, and where I differ, it is slight.
I suggest going back to studying the basics of playing post-flop.

In general even where you open too wide pre-flop, it isn't by much. However "tight is right" — especially once you pass NL 5.

The only other comment to make is that posting 4 different threads for 4 different hands makes the discussion for each one much easier to follow.


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MarsellusW
Joined: 02.09.2007

Literally the first (and last) hand of the session following the hands above.

PokerStars, Hold'em No Limit - €0.05/€0.10 - 5 players
Hand delivered by Upswing Poker

UTG (Hero): €10.00 (100 bb)
CO: €6.67 (67 bb)
BU: €9.18 (92 bb)
SB: €10.39 (104 bb)
BB: €16.69 (167 bb)

Pre-Flop: (€0.15) Hero is UTG with K Q
Hero raises to €0.30, 2 players fold, SB calls €0.25, BB calls €0.20

Flop: (€0.90) Q 3 5 (3 players)
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets €0.58, SB calls €0.58, BB folds

Turn: (€2.06) T (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets €1.31, SB calls €1.31

River: (€4.68) K (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets €1.55, SB calls €1.55

Total pot: €7.78 (Rake: €0.42)

Showdown:
UTG (Hero) shows K Q (two pair, Kings and Queens)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 63%, Flop: 50%, Turn: 0%, River: 0%)

SB shows 9 3 (a flush, Queen high)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 37%, Flop: 50%, Turn: 100%, River: 100%)

SB wins €7.36


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SDK1987
Joined: 12.11.2008

This seems well played. Villains play seems a lot worse with 9♣::3♣: that most players will fold right away and missing value with just calling the river. At least you know now if villain would raise post-flop the change is huge you are against the nuts with in mind villain is calling a flush down.

Cheers,
SDK1987


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