I'm in the midst of a 7k hand break even stretch and trying to find holes in my game. I think I make a crying call way too often on the river in these situations, as for whatever reason I feel very stubborn to lay hands down to raises or checkraises when I have any sort of a hand. While I don't think this is a huge leak (it took me five minutes going though my pokertracker database to find two hands that fit this criteria), whenever I make the play I feel dirty since I can't remember the last time I won in a situation like this, yet I can't get myself to throw the hand away. Anyways, in hand 1 the villian is a 16/7, but I felt that his preflop raise could have been an attempt to isolate against the fish who had already called. Villian in hand 2 is a total donk, with a 65/6 and a sub 1 aggressiveness factor.
Hand 1
Party Poker 2/4 Hold'em (9 handed)
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Preflop: Hero is SB with A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
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5 folds</font>, CO calls, <font color="#CC3333">Button raises</font>, Hero calls, BB calls, CO calls.
Flop: (8 SB) 3[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
Hero checks, BB checks, CO checks, <font color="#CC3333">Button bets</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, BB folds, CO calls, Button calls.
Turn: (7 BB) 9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, CO folds, Button calls.
River: (9 BB) 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Button raises</font>, Hero calls.
Final Pot: 13 BB
Hand Two
Party Poker 2/4 Hold'em (8 handed)
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Preflop: Hero is CO with K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
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4 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, <font color="#666666">
1 fold</font>, SB calls, <font color="#666666">
1 fold</font>.
Flop: (5 SB) 4[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
SB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, SB calls.
Turn: (3.50 BB) J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
SB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, SB calls.
River: (5.50 BB) T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
SB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, <font color="#CC3333">SB raises</font>, Hero calls.
Final Pot: 9.50 BB