Hand #1: You messed up this hand by not betting the river too. Bet the river. The guy who has KK missed a ton of bets, you should have lost more in this hand. You have an overpair and nobody has raised you once. Nobody capped it preflop so you can't put them on a big pair. When you have an overpair and it is checked to you, bet every time. If you bet your overpair even when every draw in the world got there when it was checked to you, you still would make money overall. People will call with hands that you beat more often than they call with hands you don't, so bet! You are so results oriented, dude. What if you bet the river, got called, and AT with the ace of clubs called. Do you still post and say you played it bad by betting your hand the whole way? You are only posting because you lost. But you should have lost more money and not pussed out and bet the river too. Bet bet bet. Bet!!!!
Hand #2: If there is a loose aggressive guy in the pot with you, guess what they do when you check to them and a scary card hits? They bet, even if they don't have it. So checking and folding you invite yourself to get bent over the table and drilled by this guy constantly bluffing you whenever a scary card hits. A good plan would be to check the turn and call and check and call the river too. Don't let the laggy guys push you off hands. I would have lost more money on this hand too. 2 BB instead of 1, because there is no way I am folding two pair to a LAGgy guy.
Hand #3: You should raise the limpers with A9s from the cutoff. A9s plays well multiway, and the pot is multiway. If you raise, the button might fold, giving you last position which is worth a SB. The players also might check to you on the flop because you raised, and you can take a free card if the flop totally misses you, effectively seeing a 4 card flop. You should raise hands as weak as T9s here, to try to steal the button and to get the option of taking a 4 card flop. The spot to raise in this hand is on the flop, to try to take a free card on the turn. On the turn, if you put the guy on the king, the raise doesn't have much point if there is no way he is going to fold the king. A raise is good only if you think he will fold a certain percentage of the time. If you are 1:1.6 or whatever, you are still losing money on every bet that goes in with only 1 other player in if the guy won't ever fold. Pop him on the flop and give yourself some options on the turn. You want to use that position to your advantage. He bets, you raise, you take a free card on the turn. That is why you raise preflop with A9s, so you can be last to act so you have the option of making plays like this or representing a big hand. I bet if you had raised preflop and popped him on the flop he would not have 3 bet on the flop and you could check behind when he checks the turn. His J kicker doesn't look so good because it sure looks like you have a bigger king.
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Date: 2005-03-21 00:07 (UTC)Hand #1: You messed up this hand by not betting the river too. Bet the river. The guy who has KK missed a ton of bets, you should have lost more in this hand. You have an overpair and nobody has raised you once. Nobody capped it preflop so you can't put them on a big pair. When you have an overpair and it is checked to you, bet every time. If you bet your overpair even when every draw in the world got there when it was checked to you, you still would make money overall. People will call with hands that you beat more often than they call with hands you don't, so bet! You are so results oriented, dude. What if you bet the river, got called, and AT with the ace of clubs called. Do you still post and say you played it bad by betting your hand the whole way? You are only posting because you lost. But you should have lost more money and not pussed out and bet the river too. Bet bet bet. Bet!!!!
Hand #2:
If there is a loose aggressive guy in the pot with you, guess what they do when you check to them and a scary card hits? They bet, even if they don't have it. So checking and folding you invite yourself to get bent over the table and drilled by this guy constantly bluffing you whenever a scary card hits. A good plan would be to check the turn and call and check and call the river too. Don't let the laggy guys push you off hands. I would have lost more money on this hand too. 2 BB instead of 1, because there is no way I am folding two pair to a LAGgy guy.
Hand #3:
You should raise the limpers with A9s from the cutoff. A9s plays well multiway, and the pot is multiway. If you raise, the button might fold, giving you last position which is worth a SB. The players also might check to you on the flop because you raised, and you can take a free card if the flop totally misses you, effectively seeing a 4 card flop. You should raise hands as weak as T9s here, to try to steal the button and to get the option of taking a 4 card flop. The spot to raise in this hand is on the flop, to try to take a free card on the turn. On the turn, if you put the guy on the king, the raise doesn't have much point if there is no way he is going to fold the king. A raise is good only if you think he will fold a certain percentage of the time. If you are 1:1.6 or whatever, you are still losing money on every bet that goes in with only 1 other player in if the guy won't ever fold. Pop him on the flop and give yourself some options on the turn. You want to use that position to your advantage. He bets, you raise, you take a free card on the turn. That is why you raise preflop with A9s, so you can be last to act so you have the option of making plays like this or representing a big hand. I bet if you had raised preflop and popped him on the flop he would not have 3 bet on the flop and you could check behind when he checks the turn. His J kicker doesn't look so good because it sure looks like you have a bigger king.