advice please with these hands

craigcu12

I have a few hands I would like to ask about it's after the mistake I did with two hands today against idonkcallu
those two are not the ones I want to ask about here I already did post one of them and the other was again a bad call.

the are I am want to ask about are these

hand 1 should I be making the jam if I am not folding this river?

craigcu12	Small blind		£0.05	£0.05	£23.39
rancid	Big blind		£0.10	£0.15	£38.32
	Your hole cards	A K
gibbzy	Fold
IDONKCALLU	Raise		£0.30	£0.45	£19.61
POKEY2011	Fold
Donttelmum	Fold
craigcu12	Raise		£0.75	£1.20	£22.64
rancid	Fold
IDONKCALLU	Raise		£2.00	£3.20	£17.61
craigcu12	Call		£1.50	£4.70	£21.14
Flop
		A 6 Q
craigcu12	Check
IDONKCALLU	Check
Turn
		10
craigcu12	Bet		£2.35	£7.05	£18.79
IDONKCALLU	Call		£2.35	£9.40	£15.26
River
		5
craigcu12	Check
IDONKCALLU	Bet		£7.40	£16.80	£7.86
craigcu12	Call		£7.40	£24.20	£11.39
IDONKCALLU	Show
craigcu12	Show	A K
craigcu12	Win	Pair of Aces	£22.80		£34.19

hand 2 would a villain have been more tempted to bluff if I made a bet on the turn ?

craigcu12	Small blind		£0.05	£0.05	£19.85
wasnmee	Big blind		£0.10	£0.15	£7.20
	Your hole cards	A A
Donttelmum	Fold
binks42	Fold
DEFOE007	Call		£0.10	£0.25	£11.96
StevBeaman	Raise		£0.30	£0.55	£29.88
craigcu12	Raise		£0.95	£1.50	£18.90
wasnmee	Fold
DEFOE007	Call		£0.90	£2.40	£11.06
StevBeaman	Call		£0.70	£3.10	£29.18
Flop
		Q 9 A
craigcu12	Bet		£1.30	£4.40	£17.60
DEFOE007	Fold
StevBeaman	Call		£1.30	£5.70	£27.88
Turn
		9
craigcu12	Check
StevBeaman	Check
River
		3
craigcu12	Check
StevBeaman	Bet		£2.85	£8.55	£25.03
craigcu12	Raise		£6.00	£14.55	£11.60
StevBeaman	Call		£3.15	£17.70	£21.88
craigcu12	Show	A A
StevBeaman	Muck	4 J
craigcu12	Win	Full House, Aces and 9s	£16.37		£27.97

hand 3 should I be fold these post flop

hogan2089	Small blind		£0.05	£0.05	£19.25
gibbzy	Big blind		£0.10	£0.15	£85.63
	Your hole cards	Q K
Kanyu	Fold
POKEY2011	Fold
Donttelmum	Fold
craigcu12	Raise		£0.30	£0.45	£23.09
hogan2089	Raise		£1.05	£1.50	£18.20
gibbzy	Call		£1.00	£2.50	£84.63
craigcu12	Call		£0.80	£3.30	£22.29
Flop
		9 9 8
hogan2089	Check
gibbzy	Bet		£1.65	£4.95	£82.98
craigcu12

craigcu12

the difficulty I've been having is trying to get the callers which i think in part was because quite often they called with any two cards suited or any Ax then if they missed the flop were just folding so i have been getting loose and aggressive.

jams88

Hand 1 if your not folding the river the line you took is fine abit of a hero but well played

Hand 2 bet all streets villian will come along if he has something and fold a high%  of the time but i think it is better just to keep betting imo

Hand 3 easy fold on the flop

BorinLoner

I like your post-flop line in the first hand, though I think you should 3-bet bigger pre-flop. What made the 3-bet to 80p better than a 3-bet to 90p or £1? If you didn't have a specific reason in mind for making it this particular size, it indicates you need to give more thought to your sizings in future.


In the second hand with AA, you should c-bet the flop quite a bit bigger. Bet the same size as you would with AK or KhJh. This flop is super-wet and we can get value from so many other hands. We don't need to be afraid that it's difficult for our opponent to have an Ace because' he'll continue with such a wide range here anyway. This is a fabulous board to get value from, so get more value by betting bigger. If he folds, he must have had an underpair or some other hand that we couldn't have gained any more value from anyway. 

I don't mind checking the turn if we think this villain is the type to semi-bluff turns or value bet weaker. I don't mind checking if we think villain is going to call the flop with just second pair and fold to a second barrel... Generally speaking I'd just be giving my opponent the opportunity to call me again but checking isn't too bad.

After the villain checks-back the turn, we absolutely must bet the river. We can never give him the opportunity to check-back all his weaker Aces or Queens. If he has a flush he will call or raise the river anyway and if he has a full house he's definitely raising. We lose so much value against the majority of his range by checking the river.


On the button with KQs, obviously the raise is good. After we've been 3-bet we need to think about the 3-better's and the caller's respective ranges. I don't mind calling this 3-bet if we're assuming that the 3-better isn't a nit that only 3-bets premium or near premium hands. Obviously against a nits range we're in really bad shape but otherwise our position is a good enough reason to call.

We've missed the flop high, wide and handsome. If we're thinking about calling we have to know what we're going to do on the turn or river. We shouldn't expect to have the best hand too often with just KQ-high at showdown, so we have to be able to take it away on later streets.

So what do we think of a) the pre-flop 3-better's range for 3-betting in the small blind then checking the flop three-handed, and b) the flop better's range for leading out?

We want both our opponents to have marginal hands a lot of the time. We also want to be able to represent cards that alter the texture of the board so it has to be believable that we'd flat call here with a draw and then take off when we hit...

Basically we want to have good reads on our opponents before making these floats. We might see this as a good potential situation to possibly bluff but if we don't know that our opponents are going to give up alot on later streets, we shouldn't simply hope that they will. Floating 3-handed on draw-heavy flops is probably not that great anyway. We're much better off doing this in heads-up pots where the draws make up more of our range than our opponent's. 

Just fold, readless.

craigcu12

BL
with KQ part of my plan with the post flop was thinking of stealing the pot repping a flush or AK/AQ .
one of the odd things about the hand was the guy who makes the bet post flop actually just called the raise pre so what I was thinking their was the villain who reraised preflop is either trapping with a premium pair or has miss with AK/Q so therefore checks so the guy who does the bet  will be holding a middle pair and knowing the range that I have being OTB and considering how wet the board is he charges me. if any A K Q or J came on the turn and he only checked I would attempt a bluff right away.
I did do it once against idonkcallu
I did a raise preflop but got reraised so made the call then the flop came with an A and the guy who had bet preflop checks so idonkcallu bets and I was thinking because I did a raise preflop i could try repping top pair decent kicker so do a raise and if a K Q or if the board pairs the turn i will go for a large bet as an even better signal of AK/Q and it worked.

gibbzy	Small blind		£0.05	£0.05	£87.58
IDONKCALLU	Big blind		£0.10	£0.15	£38.59
	Your hole cards	Q K
GREGHOGG	Fold
Donttelmum	Fold
craigcu12	Raise		£0.30	£0.45	£28.66
rancid	Fold
gibbzy	Raise		£1.05	£1.50	£86.53
IDONKCALLU	Call		£1.00	£2.50	£37.59
craigcu12	Call		£0.80	£3.30	£27.86
Flop
		A 8 2
gibbzy	Check
IDONKCALLU	Bet		£2.20	£5.50	£35.39
craigcu12	Raise		£5.00	£10.50	£22.86
gibbzy	Fold
IDONKCALLU	Call		£2.80	£13.30	£32.59
Turn
		8
IDONKCALLU	Check
craigcu12	Bet		£6.65	£19.95	£16.21
IDONKCALLU	Fold
craigcu12	Show	Q K
craigcu12	Win		£12.30		£28.51
craigcu12	Return		£6.65	£1.00	£35.16