two bleh hands from my day.

[Azhrarn]

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Not sure I understand the turn raise on hand 1, i think I typicaly fold the turn, but aparently everyone agrees with it so what am I missing?

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Hero is putting in two more BB into a 7.5 BB pot on the turn. That's almost 4-1. Putting aside potentially complicating factors, if we're ahead just 25% of the time we're going to show a profit. You're giving a random crappy player too much credit if you think he needs a jack or better to bet the flop and turn like this. We may be behind the majority of the time, but that's not what we need for this to be the right move.

In hand 1 I am a bit confused... Can anyone explain to me why just a call on the flop would be better than a raise?

And then I guess the raise on the turn is right because of only the call on the flop?

What if you raised the flop and then UTG bets the turn?

[oreogod]

I think Azharn pretty much hit it spot on Hand 1 with the turn analysis and is pretty much what I was thinking. Two callers dropped, with one behind me...raise, sometimes iwth the best hand, check river UI.

Hand 2 I agree with the turn bet.

As far as bleh applying to hand 1...it was an intresting hand, but I think being results oriented made me feel bleh about it, which is stupid. As looking at it today I agree with the play as is.

Also, Lost mentioned raising preflop Ive been out of the loop with full ring games that my preflop game is not tuned as finely as it is in a short game, so I didnt think of raising it.