No worries, I'm learning to play better poker on the cheap at these stakes, thanks to this forum. I lurk all the time. For Christmas, I bought myself PokerTracker and I'm learning to use it and GT+. Thanks to your post last month, AJ (your 'starting over' post), I've tranformed my game into a tight aggressive and got comfortable multi-tabling. Probably the best Christmas present I could have given myself.
Thanks for all of the advice. This place makes me a better player.
In this hand, the hand that made sense to me was what Villian showed down. I said out loud, "I'm not good enough yet to lay this down. If you got it, you got it", and got my chips in the pot (although donkish? probably should have just pushed the turn if I was going to play for my stack?). Here's the results, although not relevant to how I should play the hand. Big suckout.
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.02 BB (5 handed)
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SB ($3.54)
BB ($3.13)
UTG ($1.21)
Hero ($1.88)
Button ($2.35)
Preflop: Hero is MP with A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
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1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $0.1</font>, <font color="#666666">
1 fold</font>, SB calls $0.09, BB calls $0.08.
Flop: ($0.30) 2[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">SB bets $0.04</font>, BB calls $0.04, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $0.38</font>, SB folds, BB calls $0.34.
Turn: ($1.10) K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
BB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $0.5</font>, <font color="#CC3333">BB raises to $1</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $1.4 (all-in)</font>, BB calls $0.40.
River: ($3.90) A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Final Pot: $3.90
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Villian: shows [Jd Td] (a flush, Ace high)
Hero: shows [As Kh] (a full house, Aces full of Kings)
Hero collected $3.75 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $3.90 | Rake $0.15
Thanks again for the help.