Ok or nasty?

EMcWilliams · #1 12-05-2005, 01:15 AM

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $ Hero (6 max, 5 handed) converter

Hero ($51.40)
UTG ($56.05)
MP ($48.35)
Button ($82.57)
SB ($100.79)

Preflop: Hero is BB with K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 6[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]. SB posts a blind of $0.25.
UTG raises to $2, 1 fold, Button calls $2, SB (poster) calls $1.75, Hero calls $1.50.

Flop: ($8) J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (4 players)
SB checks, Hero checks, UTG bets $4, Button calls $4, SB folds, Hero calls $4.

Turn: ($20) 6[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (3 players)
Hero bets $15, UTG folds, Button calls $15.

River: ($50) 5[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (2 players)
Hero bets $15, Button raises to $30, Hero Calls

Final Pot: $95.40

No real reads, havent been around too long. If Im not mistaken I was getting good odds all along, hence the calls. THe river was a feeble attempt at a blocking bet, and then he rr for what I had left. What was a better option?

miajag81 · #2 12-05-2005, 01:18 AM

Fold preflop, either fold or raise the flop.

EMcWilliams · #3 12-05-2005, 01:23 AM

I thought I was getting good immediate odds and implied odds pf, and I was closing the action so I felt that calling was ok. On the flop i was getting about 4-1 and I was done with the hand if a club, king or six didnt fall.

miajag81 · #4 12-05-2005, 01:30 AM

Hands like this are often dominated PF and you are unlikely to get paid off if you hit the flush. So I don't think your odds were that good. Playing it the way you did, I don't mind peeling off another card for $4 on the flop that much. But I open-push the turn if a club or 6 hits.

EMcWilliams · #5 12-05-2005, 01:34 AM

Ok, I can see it that way. I wasnt playing the K6 to make TP, I was playing it like I would a small PP in the same situation. Villian had AA, and MHING. Villian then proceeds to insult Hero, and hero still cant win jack. Yahoo!

#6 12-05-2005, 01:34 AM

I think the preflop call is fine, it's the flop that seems poor to me. The trick with playing dominated hands in situations like this... is flops like this. I think you need to make a decision right there, and once you hit your 5 outer, well, jam.

EMcWilliams · #7 12-05-2005, 01:38 AM

I was dumping that so fast if a 6 k or club didnt come, but I cant pass on 4-1 odds in that situation.

#8 12-05-2005, 01:57 AM

I like your hand somewhat. 2 pair is pretty good but nothing to get too excited about. In hindsight I'd probably bet a bit smaller on the turn $8 and then increase the bet on the river $15, thus showing strength all the way thru. The repeat $15 bet on the river may have encouraged him to raise hoping you would fold. Maybe a bet percieved as stronger would have encouraged him to fold.
If a view of your endgame had been factored in to your betting you might not be all in on this river. (As mentioned, hind sight is 20/20.)

EMcWilliams · #9 12-05-2005, 02:02 AM

Ok, thanks for the help...I cant wait for finals to be over, cause those 3 weeks off will be all poker studying time. Its time to reevaluate cause lately I cant win, and I know its about 65% my fault, 35% other factors, and its time to fix that.