KriStuS
07-08-2005, 04:08 PM
Hi, this is my first post on this forum and I want to say that I think 2+2 are great, both the books and the forum. I have learned a lot from just reading in threads here. I have just read my first poker book, Small Stakes Holdem and thinks its real good. But I have not been able to play poker during the time I read the book becourse I have not had an internet connection untill now. Today was the first time I played poker since I read the book, it was a limit small stakes holdem game and all the players were loose so the things I read in the book were perfect for this game. But I could not say I knew how to play all the time, I think I got to study SSH a bit more. But one hand I played can describe the situations that I did not know quite sure how to play ,,,so I post it here and see what everybody here thinks about it, did I do the right things or did I play terrible?
I were in middle position with KQ offsuit. Utg and utg+1 limp and the others who accted before me folded. I raise and everybod fold to the button who cold call. Small blind call and big blind fold. Utg raises and with that he got all-in. Utg+1 calls, and then I did not now what to do, raise and put an end to the betting preflop or just call? I decided to raise, I thought that the button and small blind maybe would fold so I got to play the pot heads-up with Utg+1 who had not showed any strength, and if both the button and small blind calls I probably would have the best hand anyway becourse they had not showed any strength and the raise would have been to increase my expectation by get more dead money in the pot if they hopefully had hopless hands. What do you all think of my thoughts and action?
Bough the button and small blind called and utg+1 did offcourse call to. After the preflop round the pot were 19 small bets.
The flop came: 245 rainbow. The small blind checked and so did utg+1. Then I did not know what to do either, check and hope that the button would check to and give me a freecard or bet to protect my draw by hopefully buy outs and get a gutshot and/or low and middle pair to fold (I thought at my two overcards as partial outs so I counted them as 4 outs, but in this huge pot 4 outs were good enough to protect,,, or was they? Dont really know). I decided to bet, the button folded and the small blind and utg+1 called. What do you all think of my thoughts and action here aswell?
Now the pot was 22 small bets = 10.5 big bets
The turn came 8 in the remaining suit. Both small blind and utg+1 checked. I did not know what to do here either, but i decided to bet here aswell to protect my draw and hopefully get them to fold. Should I have taken the freecard instead? Anyway,, they both called my bet.
The river were a ten and both small blind and utg+1 checked, I checked aswell and utg+1 won the huge pot of 13.5 big bets with QQ. So I had less outs the I thought all the time, but he were not easy to put on such a good hand as QQ because he never did a single bet.
What do you all think off the hand, did I play terrible or did I play right? Were my thoughts correct or wrong? Thanks for taking your time to read this text by the way, I got a little longer then I expected from the beggining.
/KriStuS
Ps. I am an amateur by the way, and sorry for my bad english, Im from Sweden.
I were in middle position with KQ offsuit. Utg and utg+1 limp and the others who accted before me folded. I raise and everybod fold to the button who cold call. Small blind call and big blind fold. Utg raises and with that he got all-in. Utg+1 calls, and then I did not now what to do, raise and put an end to the betting preflop or just call? I decided to raise, I thought that the button and small blind maybe would fold so I got to play the pot heads-up with Utg+1 who had not showed any strength, and if both the button and small blind calls I probably would have the best hand anyway becourse they had not showed any strength and the raise would have been to increase my expectation by get more dead money in the pot if they hopefully had hopless hands. What do you all think of my thoughts and action?
Bough the button and small blind called and utg+1 did offcourse call to. After the preflop round the pot were 19 small bets.
The flop came: 245 rainbow. The small blind checked and so did utg+1. Then I did not know what to do either, check and hope that the button would check to and give me a freecard or bet to protect my draw by hopefully buy outs and get a gutshot and/or low and middle pair to fold (I thought at my two overcards as partial outs so I counted them as 4 outs, but in this huge pot 4 outs were good enough to protect,,, or was they? Dont really know). I decided to bet, the button folded and the small blind and utg+1 called. What do you all think of my thoughts and action here aswell?
Now the pot was 22 small bets = 10.5 big bets
The turn came 8 in the remaining suit. Both small blind and utg+1 checked. I did not know what to do here either, but i decided to bet here aswell to protect my draw and hopefully get them to fold. Should I have taken the freecard instead? Anyway,, they both called my bet.
The river were a ten and both small blind and utg+1 checked, I checked aswell and utg+1 won the huge pot of 13.5 big bets with QQ. So I had less outs the I thought all the time, but he were not easy to put on such a good hand as QQ because he never did a single bet.
What do you all think off the hand, did I play terrible or did I play right? Were my thoughts correct or wrong? Thanks for taking your time to read this text by the way, I got a little longer then I expected from the beggining.
/KriStuS
Ps. I am an amateur by the way, and sorry for my bad english, Im from Sweden.