Time for my medicine

[BarryDingle]

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the AKo was a big leak for me at the start of my campaign (i was -1.47BB/hand!), by chasing to the river against any pair.

After you coldcall PF (mistake, a 3-bet is needed here), the pot is fairly small and you could have tainted [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] outs, so folding the flop is okay i reckon (weak-tight thinking?).

The turn - if you count all 10 outs (J's, K's, A's) for making your hand, you can call the turn. Again, if you are worried about the hearts or an A/K not being enough to win, i guess folding on the flop would have been good.

River - you hit your hand and made no effort to see if TPTK is best. What does MP1 raise with? KQ? QT? JJ? i reckon you can raise the river and be best here most of the time, especially without CO contesting the river.

Comments welcome as this post has even flummoxed me,
Pete Harris

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I realize that I should've 3 bet preflop, but I had just missed with AKo a few hands earlier...I know it doesn't matter, and I shouldn't think like that. I'm working on it.

On the flop, I felt that I had maybe 4 outs with the over cards and a backdoor straight with a couple of hearts on board that tainted my overcard outs. I considered folding...

On the turn, I picked up at least 3 more outs with the gutshot if the J [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] isn't good, so I have maybe 7 outs here. Worth a call I thought.

On the river, I agree that I played this weak, but I was worried about AA, KK, AJ, or KQ. Monsters under the bed I guess...