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don90 NL10 on 888 comments on hands welcomed. lacking in confidence.

sorry for delay in upload had some issues with my game etc. Comments on hands please.

yea that 3 bet in the last hand was pretty bad, you didnt say anything about him being out of line previously in any spot and u still have most the table behind and that kind of raise from personal experience is hands he is definitely not folding to a 3bet. I mean you make a decent attempt to rep a huge hand but these guys aren't thinking just clicking..... imo these stakes i recommend opening a lot more pots in possition and even in early position as the players are extremely passive and play very straight forward post flop. Just bet when checked to most of the time for atleast one post flop street. And raise like 90% buttons atleast. These guys are just so damn passive and easy....

ATs hand

I think you played it right, but your thought process seems a bit fuzzy judging from your comments. You focus on the fact that there was an UTG raise and a call, but you are unsure what it means. I think you should make a few obvious observations: First of all the raise size is ridiculous. Click raising UTG in a nine handed game. What does that tell you? The guy is obviously a fish. The weak raise either means "My hand is so strong my biggest fear is to scare everybody away", or it means "My hand is playable, but only just, so I won't spend a lot of money on it before I see the flop". You should make a note on that and look at what he does in the future to find out if it is one or the other.

However you have a nice hand that plays well as a drawing hand, even in a multi-way pot, and the prize is really low so just calling is fine. If you squeeze, then you risk that the UTG guy decides to show the real strength of his monster hand and raises you off your nice hand.

On the flop your read that the UTG guy is a fish comes to your advantage. If you could say with some confidence that he was a good player, then you would not expect him to c-bet into four people unless he has a huge piece of that flop, and you could fold with confidence. However we think he is oblivious to things like position and board textures and the number of people he has to get through, so we can expect him to bet almost anything here, and calling once is okay.

Turn obviously plays itself.


Notes on FISTPUMPYA

In the next hands where you fold, pay attention to your opponent from before. He is playing a LOT of hands. Look at his bet sizing when he is on the button: There he is raising too big for his position, and then he pot bets both the flop and the turn. He's obviously clueless. Make a note on him!

Look at his next hand, which is really interesting because it goes to show down. He calls a five BB raise with 76s. That just can't be +EV! Then he click raises with a flush draw and checks behind when he hits, and calls the river when he can only beat a bluff. That's just bonkers! Please, please, make a note on him, and try to play as many hands as you can against this whale!


KQo in the small blind

Fine to raise with KQ, no matter who isin the big blind. I just noted your comment that you were inclined to raise any two there. In order to make such a statement, you need a read on the guy in the big blind. If he is very tight, then you are right to steal his blind with any two, but if he is loose or known to defend his blinds, then you should tighten up considerably, and only raise decent hands.


Notes on FISTPUMPYA part 2

You failed to pay attention to what was happening in that hand where you finally made a note on the clown. I guess that it's hard to comment and pay attention at the same time, but you ended up concluding that he is limp/shoving 35 big blinds. First of all he didn't limp. He actually made a much larger raise than the first time when he raised from that position (4½ BBs this time). He also didn't shove 35 BBs (guess you meant 350 BBs), the effective stack against the 3-bettor is a hundred big blinds, and against the flat caller it is 170.

So what you SHOULD have learned from this hand is that his UTG raise size is probably proportional to the strength of his hand. Very useful information! It's also interesting to see JokyJoke squeezing and then folding when the whale shoves it in. Guess he should have learned from his KK hand that this guy doesn't fold ANYTHING, and that you shouldn't re-raise him, unless you have the goods. Obviously he hadn't learned, and that is interesting information as well.


A5s hand

Raising is a bit meeh... I guess you could have folded it, but you have FISTPUMPYA in the big blind, and he is extremely likely to call with just about any two from there, so you have a good chance of playing a heads up pot with him being out of position and being well ahead of his range as well. Even with a weak hand like yours, you are dying to play some pots against him before he gets busted by someone else, or leaves the table.


Final hand

Not much to add to what others have said already. Terrible re-raise! Just fold.


General comments

I think you need to pay a bit more attention to people's tendencies, and you need to think about how to exploit them. For example, your decision to play a hand or not should not just be based on the hand itself, but also on whether you think that what you plan to do with it is likely to succeed. For example: Stealing blinds. Are the people in the blinds likely to fold easily at any point in the hand? If yes, then go ahead. If no, then tighten up a lot. Another example: Calling a raise with 65s on the button. Are you likely to stack the guy raising if you hit hour draw a reasonable amount of the time, or is he smart enough to get away from his big pairs when you start fighting back? If you think he can't fold, then you can call a standard raise. If you think he can get away from his hand, then... Well... then it depends on whether he can be bluffed off his hand when you DON'T hit.

Also pay a lot of attention to bet sizing. Try to find out how to exploit people who makes inappropriately sized bets, and try not to make those same mistakes yourself. Generally it's a smaller mistake to bet too big than it is to bet too small.



[EDIT] Boy! Am I glad I pressed Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C before hitting the "Post" button! Otherwise this entire post would have been lost to a server error!

just watched it

+1 What he said above - On the last hand i reckon it could have been coz you knew it was ur last hand as you wouldn,t normally play that nevermind 3-bet so far out of position - and think you got carried away with a pretty looking hand

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