Observed Hand
 

I was just trolling along at Poker stars and just saw this one hand I thought to be interesting. The play on each street seems pretty questionable to me. Strassa was MP in this instance. Maybe Strassa could offer some thoughts/explanations.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $10 BB (9 handed) converter

($697.50)
BB ($273.50)
UTG ($1117)
UTG+1 ($817)
MP1 ($769)
MP2 ($1804.75)
MP3 ($955)
CO ($1167.25)
Button ($1092.25)

Preflop: is with , .

Flop: ($15) 5[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(9 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">UTG bets $30</font>, MP3 calls $30.

Turn: ($75) Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(9 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">UTG bets $30</font>, MP3 calls $30.

River: ($135) 6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(9 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">UTG bets $30</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP3 raises to $170</font>, <font color="#CC3333">UTG raises to $390</font>, MP3 folds.

Final Pot: $695

Re: Observed Hand
 

why are you so surprised? on the river he obviously has dogshit and tries to take the pot away from a freeze bettor.

Re: Observed Hand
 

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The play on each street seems pretty questionable to me. Strassa was MP in this instance.

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well, strassa is a pretty questionable player.

Re: Observed Hand
 

Sweet.

Ok, my thoughts/explanations to defend my questionable play

Thought 1
Well hold on now. Didnt I raise to like 40 preflop?

I remember this hand. So that would change a lot of things like the pot size and stuff, because it is impossible to have a flop in 5-10 nl with a $15 pot.

Thought 2
Since the opponent like lead into me for a small bet (30 was like 1/3 pot or even less) I put him on a draw. People tend to make pussy like bets with draws like this so they get to showdown cheaper.

Thought 3

On the river, I thought he missed or something. What kind of value bet would this be? I raised, he reraised, he obviously had something like x [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]7 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] or maybe the idiot end of the straight. Of course he had some sort of a straight. So I folded.

Explanation 1

Well I dont have any further explanations.

I dont mind you posting hands like this at all, it would just be nice if the information was correct.

-Jason