I can't remember how to use the raise or fold buttons (10+1 hands)

[KyleOlson]

I never call nowadays as much as I did in these two hands, so I think I'm doing something wrong here.

***** Hand #1 *****
15/30 Tourney Texas Hold'em Game Table (NL) (Tournament 14381072) - Sat Jul 30 01:44:21 EDT 2005
Table Table 11153 (Real Money) -- Seat 10 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: bpkirk (780)
Seat 2: Liminater (570)
Seat 3: DeadLast10 (755)
Seat 4: arbbbyb (800)
Seat 5: wheels190 (800)
Seat 6: hickoid (785)
Seat 7: KyDavey81 (770)
Seat 8: TeacherfrmTO (1195)
Seat 9: KyleOlson (770)
Seat 10: chad67fan (775)
bpkirk posts small blind (10)
Liminater posts big blind (15)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to KyleOlson [ Jc, Tc ]
DeadLast10 calls (15)
arbbbyb calls (15)
wheels190 folds.
hickoid folds.
KyDavey81 folds.
TeacherfrmTO calls (15)
KyleOlson calls (15)
chad67fan folds.
bpkirk calls (5)
Liminater checks.
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 6c, Ac, Qd ]
bpkirk checks.
Liminater checks.
DeadLast10 bets (15)
arbbbyb calls (15)
TeacherfrmTO calls (15)
KyleOlson calls (15)
bpkirk calls (15)
Liminater folds.
** Dealing Turn ** : [ Jh ]
bpkirk checks.
DeadLast10 bets (45)
arbbbyb calls (45)
TeacherfrmTO folds.
KyleOlson calls (45)
bpkirk folds.
** Dealing River ** : [ 4c ]
DeadLast10 bets (150)
arbbbyb folds.
KyleOlson calls (150)
** Summary **
Main Pot: 600
Board: [ 6c Ac Qd Jh 4c ]


***** Hand #2 *****
15/30 Tourney Texas Hold'em Game Table (NL) (Tournament 14394057) - Sat Jul 30 15:24:23 EDT 2005
Table Table 11629 (Real Money) -- Seat 7 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: Terra_A (785)
Seat 2: TxLghns (1010)
Seat 3: thebus21 (800)
Seat 4: Adventure74 (835)
Seat 5: SandyH99 (705)
Seat 6: boydro (570)
Seat 7: CrazyCheese (755)
Seat 8: KyleOlson (785)
Seat 9: kenmasters (885)
Seat 10: ohvalcc (870)
KyleOlson posts small blind (10)
kenmasters posts big blind (15)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to KyleOlson [ Ts, 9s ]
ohvalcc folds.
Terra_A folds.
TxLghns calls (15)
thebus21 folds.
Adventure74 raises (30) to 30
SandyH99 calls (30)
boydro folds.
CrazyCheese folds.
KyleOlson calls (20)
kenmasters folds.
TxLghns calls (15)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 3s, 5s, 7c ]
KyleOlson checks.
TxLghns checks.
Adventure74 bets (15)
SandyH99 folds.
KyleOlson calls (15)
TxLghns calls (15)
** Dealing Turn ** : [ Qs ]
KyleOlson checks.
TxLghns bets (50)
Adventure74 calls (50)
KyleOlson calls (50)
** Dealing River ** : [ 6d ]
ohvalcc: i agree
KyleOlson checks.
TxLghns bets (50)
Adventure74 folds.
KyleOlson calls (50)
** Summary **
Main Pot: 430
Board: [ 3s 5s 7c Qs 6d ]

[KingDan]

Fold the river hand 1

Raise the turn hand 2. Don't want to let a higher spade get a free draw. I raise the river too.

[Slim Pickens]

Hand 1: Sure, whatever, with the calling. That looks fine up until the river. You made your flush, right? Raise the river.

Hand 2: I fold to the minraise preflop, but once you make your flush, GO!

[KyleOlson]

[ QUOTE ]
Hand 1: Sure, whatever, with the calling. That looks fine up until the river. You made your flush, right? Raise the river.

[/ QUOTE ]

I was afraid my opponnent had the better flush (he did) and I didn't want to lose all my chips. I didn't lose all my chips; maybe I should have. I'm still uncomfortable on this one.

[ QUOTE ]
Hand 2: I fold to the minraise preflop, but once you make your flush, GO!

[/ QUOTE ]

The process of posting the hand was enough to make me realize how wrong I played this hand. I was embarassed when I finished playing this hand and I'm even more embrassed now. I was thinking of hand #1 while I played hand #2 and it made me freeze up. There's no reason I should have given a higher spade the chance to beat me.

[KingDan]

[ QUOTE ]
Hand 1: Sure, whatever, with the calling. That looks fine up until the river. You made your flush, right? Raise the river.


[/ QUOTE ]


Heh, I misread the post. Thought the flop was rainbow.

[curtains]

I would raise the river in hand 1, because you are obviously playing a weak player who will call with an absurd range of hands (any flush, any 2 pair, any trips , sometimes any top pair etc etc).

[Slim Pickens]

[ QUOTE ]
I was afraid my opponnent had the better flush

[/ QUOTE ]

You can't afford to worry about this when your opportunity cost is zero. If he's got a higher flush, bust out and fire up another game.

You really shoulndt be playing these hands at the 11's. Theres no need to play fancy to beat the 11's. Just stick with basic robotic strategy and you will achieve a good ROI. You just have to know correct bubble play, which takes a long time to learn.

Search adanthars robotic strategy if you want to re-read it!

[lastchance]

Though raising/betting both of these before you hit often works, it's pretty marginal in these cases. The turn play is standard. You've got to raise the end though with a flush, and it's really not close.

Oh, and the T9s preflop call is probably a bad one OOP.

Limping JTs in the CO behind huge amounts of limpers is a very, very good idea though.

[Slim Pickens]

[ QUOTE ]
You really shoulndt be playing these hands at the 11's.

[/ QUOTE ]

These are probably good hands to learn to play for a profit at lower levels because I imagine you have to play them for profit to beat higher levels for any decent amount.