Moving up to 3/6 -- thoughts and hands

[PotatoStew]

After 16,000 hands with a solid winrate on 2/4, I finally decided to give Party 3/6 a shot last week. My initial thoughts:

-- It's quite a bit more tight and aggressive, on average. Lots of blind stealing and defending, more preflop raising, more 3-betting. That being said, it still does seem to be possible to find loose tables.

-- There are still quite a few very loose, clueless people playing, so even if there are better players, I know I'm not nearly the worst at this level.

Here are a coupe of hands I played that I would love some feedback on:

Hand 1:

Party Poker 3/6 Hold'em (8 handed) converter

Preflop: Hero is Button with J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">5 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, BB calls.

Flop: (4.33 SB) 2[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
BB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, BB calls.

Turn: (3.16 BB) 3[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
BB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, <font color="#CC3333">BB raises</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero 3-bets</font>, BB calls.

Is the action on the turn usually indicative of me being beat? I'm guessing it is, and I was getting too aggressive and spewing chips.

Hand 2:

Party Poker 3/6 Hold'em (10 handed) converter

Preflop: Hero is MP3 with J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. CO posts a blind of $3.
<font color="#666666">4 folds</font>, MP2 calls, Hero calls, CO (poster) checks, Button calls, <font color="#CC3333">SB raises</font>, BB calls, MP2 calls, Hero calls, CO calls, Button calls.

Flop: (12 SB) T[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(6 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">SB bets</font>, BB folds, MP2 folds, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, CO folds, Button calls, SB calls.

Turn: (9 BB) 4[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
SB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, Button calls, SB calls.

River: (12 BB) 2[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
SB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, Button folds, SB calls.

Final Pot: 14 BB

I think this seems pretty standard, but I just want to make sure I'm not overplaying it, or making other mistakes.

[masonx]

whats up fellow x-pokersavvyian, yeah hand 1 is spewing.
hand 2 looks standard

Good-luck with 3/6 its easily beaten

[Anders]

I don't like the 3-bet on the first hand.

Hand 2 is beautiful.

[DMBFan23]

you can probably raise preflop in hand 2, but you played it well

[PotatoStew]

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whats up fellow x-pokersavvyian, yeah hand 1 is spewing.
hand 2 looks standard

Good-luck with 3/6 its easily beaten

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Thanks mason.... so you posted at pokersavvy too? It seemed like it was going to be a really good board, but the articles stopped coming, and the forum got really dead for a long time. So sad.

[PotatoStew]

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I don't like the 3-bet on the first hand.


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That's what I figured. So what do you think is correct? Fold? Call down? Call and check/fold unimproved on the river?

[PotatoStew]

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you can probably raise preflop in hand 2, but you played it well

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Hm... that's interesting that you say that. I'd been thinking that was a raiseable situation, but I talked myself out of it... JQs seems like something you'd want more limpers to come in for if possible. What's the reasoning behind a PF raise in that spot?

[PokerBob]

Hand 1: I call down. If he is trying to get you off of your hand, he'll bet the river, you call, you win. 3-betting the turn may get him to fold a worse hand, and you don't want that.

Hand 2 is fine, but you may consider a raise pf with that poster's $$$ in there.

By the way, 16K hands is nothing. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

[PotatoStew]

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By the way, 16K hands is nothing. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

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Heh... yeah, I was going to go for 20k, but I got impatient.

[sfer]

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What's the reasoning behind a PF raise in that spot?

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The pot is almost twice it's normal size before the cards are dealt, you can get dead money in there, some moron open-limped ahead of you with trash, you can win the button, and worse hands will want to coldcall.