10-25-2005, 04:30 PM
Hi!
I am still quite new to the game and I feel I am wasting quite some money on the river by calling too much and betting too often in bad spots.
This hand is an example for the latter, I think, although I want to stress the point, that I do not want to implie whether I won or lost this hand.
I have seen the villain only for about 30 hands. During these I haven't noticed him too much, which means, he plays pretty tight (about 25%) but actually does raise often when he gets into the hand (about half the times: 10%, pt says).
So I feel the check-raise on the turn is pretty serious but I can't figure out a hand that he seriously might be playing from SB against my PFR that could use the Turn THAT much except of TT. I can't make an educated guess about the possibility of him semi-bluffing a flush-draw.
But I DO think that my line of calling that raise and then betting the river again was terrible. I think I should've either 3-Bet the Turn against a try for a free SD and then bet out at the river or called the raise on the turn and checked behind. I feel I am begging for another check-raise with a better hand like TT here and not getting any more money from a worse hand.
What do you think?
Party Poker 0.50/1.00 Hold'em <font color="#0000FF">(10 handed)</font> link (http://www.darksun.lunarpages.com/poker/)
Preflop: Hero is MP3 with J/images/graemlins/heart.gif, J/images/graemlins/diamond.gif.
<font color="#666666">4 folds</font>, MP2 calls, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, SB calls, BB calls, MP2 calls.
Flop: (8.00 SB) 8/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 6/images/graemlins/club.gif, 3/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
SB checks, BB checks, MP2 checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, SB calls, BB folds, MP2 calls.
Turn: (5.50 BB) T/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
SB checks, MP2 checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, <font color="#CC3333">SB raises</font>, MP2 folds, Hero calls.
River: (9.50 BB) Q/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
SB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, SB calls.
Final Pot: 11.50 BB.
I am still quite new to the game and I feel I am wasting quite some money on the river by calling too much and betting too often in bad spots.
This hand is an example for the latter, I think, although I want to stress the point, that I do not want to implie whether I won or lost this hand.
I have seen the villain only for about 30 hands. During these I haven't noticed him too much, which means, he plays pretty tight (about 25%) but actually does raise often when he gets into the hand (about half the times: 10%, pt says).
So I feel the check-raise on the turn is pretty serious but I can't figure out a hand that he seriously might be playing from SB against my PFR that could use the Turn THAT much except of TT. I can't make an educated guess about the possibility of him semi-bluffing a flush-draw.
But I DO think that my line of calling that raise and then betting the river again was terrible. I think I should've either 3-Bet the Turn against a try for a free SD and then bet out at the river or called the raise on the turn and checked behind. I feel I am begging for another check-raise with a better hand like TT here and not getting any more money from a worse hand.
What do you think?
Party Poker 0.50/1.00 Hold'em <font color="#0000FF">(10 handed)</font> link (http://www.darksun.lunarpages.com/poker/)
Preflop: Hero is MP3 with J/images/graemlins/heart.gif, J/images/graemlins/diamond.gif.
<font color="#666666">4 folds</font>, MP2 calls, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, SB calls, BB calls, MP2 calls.
Flop: (8.00 SB) 8/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 6/images/graemlins/club.gif, 3/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
SB checks, BB checks, MP2 checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, SB calls, BB folds, MP2 calls.
Turn: (5.50 BB) T/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
SB checks, MP2 checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, <font color="#CC3333">SB raises</font>, MP2 folds, Hero calls.
River: (9.50 BB) Q/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
SB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, SB calls.
Final Pot: 11.50 BB.