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1) A2 in your hand is NOT the nuts. You should not be calling with just this unless you have other combos available to win the high, or you are just chasing a potential low to win only half the pot,
2) Never call big bets in a HU pot with just the nut lo draw. If you miss you are throwing money away. And if you hit then at best you will getting your money back minus rake, or worst case quartering the pot.
3) There are times when the underbet is the best thing to do to increase your winnings. It encourages multiple callers. A good example of this would on a board of 882 when you hold 88xx. This is a pot where you want to keep all your customers interested. Big bets would only drive them away and going heads up would most likely lead to a split pot.
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WAS THIS OK TALON FOR A NOVICE THAT IS?
I'll enter if I get home in time, if not, I'll play it tomorrow.
Apologies.
Will give you my analtsis of that hand and it comes in 2 parts.
Firstly the hand itself. Nice enough hand to take to a flop as it has lots of potential. The pair is a bit suspect as it will only ever hit bottom set or underhouses which can cost a lot of money in the 4 card games. The flush is also an aspect to worry about as it will probably never be good. The parts of the hand that you should like the most are the 25 and 35 because they are beautiful scoop drawing hands. They can give nut straights and nut Los at the same time.
The hand being played out. Both good and bad in here.
Preflop: fine got in cheap, with big potential.
Flop: Perfect. Couldnt have possibly hoped for better, but difficult to see hands paying you off from here except KKxx. So flatting in position is spot on.
Turn: This is where it starts to go a bit wron. The opponent has lead out weaker than on the flop so the pot is not building as you would have hoped. You have picked up the equity of a good Lo draw and also new nut draw. Think you really needed to try to build the pot up a bit more here. Maybe only a click back but something to keep them in whilst building it up.
River: The raise there is strange not because of your hand but the fact that is is called by an effective bluff. Realistically this raise should only be called by a house, not an overpair. People call preflop with low cards in this game so easy to put someon on trips on this board.
So like in general but feel you missed out on value here
I see what I'm doing wrong now - the "Total Pot" when viewing hand history summarys in "My Account" includes any unmatched bet that is returned to the big stack at showdown, in this case 23p. so the real pot was 9.26 not 9.49 so the rake calculation is correct.
Two or three of these split pots and the rake soon begins to eat into your stack though - if you go all in and get split pots three times thats 20% of your roll gone in rake just like that because you're getting back less than you put in.