New Lesson Learned

[jetsg4]

I recently ruined any chance of hand protection by raising TOO much preflop, yes... i ruined my hand protection by raising too much...

I picked up JJ in BB with a gaggle of limpers; therefore, in an attempt to clear the field(wouldn't mind taking it down here) I raise to 6x BB. this normally would have been perfect, but, although I was aware that utg was short and pushing if he was playing, i wasn't aware of his entire stack count GOOF!!!

utg was playing, so all in he goes... $5 short of a total raise, so when a tricky regular in mid position calls, i can't reraise to get heads up with short stacker and suck in the callers dead money.

I did one thing right, but not right enough. I was aware of the short stack pushing if he was playing, but wasn't aware of his total stack amount. I should have known how much he had to the $ and raised an amount that would have allowed me to reraise his all in (which in this case was 5x BB). him being $5 short of a full raise cost me the entire pot.

Lesson Learned.

[BobboFitos]

thanks for the story

You could have raised half of what the short stack had. that way when he goes all in and everyone calls the additional $x's you can now put in a hefty re-raise if that's the way you like to play JJ.

[jetsg4]

i know now.. i should have raised 5x BB.... he would have pushed, tricky regular would have called and i could have pump it up.... but i take this hand as a win since i learned something new...

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.... but i take this hand as a win since i learned something new...

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This is the most important thing people don't understand. Bad beat stories are effective if you're honest with yourself and learn from it.