General help

jimb0d1

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
VINEY73	Small blind		£0.05	£0.05	£19.35
PearllJosh	Big blind		£0.10	£0.15	£24.67
	Your hole cards	A K
craigcu12	Fold
XHOTLIPSX	Fold
jimb0d1	Raise		£0.30	£0.45	£39.09
ACE1969	Fold
VINEY73	Fold
PearllJosh	Raise		£0.80	£1.25	£23.87
jimb0d1	Call		£0.60	£1.85	£38.49
Flop
		A 6 Q
PearllJosh	Bet		£1.10	£2.95	£22.77
jimb0d1	Call		£1.10	£4.05	£37.39
Turn
		9
PearllJosh	Bet		£2.70	£6.75	£20.07
jimb0d1	Call		£2.70	£9.45	£34.69
River
		A
PearllJosh	All-in		£20.07	£29.52	£0.00

jimb0d1

Ok..whats my move? PJ is decent player and the shove is massive, but I have a very underrepped hand and was planning to call on any none diamond river.

jimb0d1

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
Mizroe	Small blind		£0.05	£0.05	£8.16
LuckyDaveB	Big blind		£0.10	£0.15	£11.18
	Your hole cards	Q J
craigcu12	Raise		£0.30	£0.45	£20.09
PearllJosh	Fold
topchip	Fold
jimb0d1	Call		£0.30	£0.75	£21.60
Mizroe	Fold
LuckyDaveB	Fold
Flop
		4 7 Q
craigcu12	Bet		£0.38	£1.13	£19.71
jimb0d1	Call		£0.38	£1.51	£21.22
Turn
		J
craigcu12	Bet		£1.13	£2.64	£18.58
jimb0d1	Raise		£2.86	£5.50	£18.36
craigcu12	Call		£1.73	£7.23	£16.85
River
		6
craigcu12	Bet		£3.62	£10.85	£13.23

jimb0d1

Can I reraise the turn bigger or reraise this river? Craig has bet all 3 streets and the flush has come in but my hand looks pretty strong.

77Chris91

Hand 1 - At these stakes this river is generally AQ/QQ and villain just jams thinking you aren't capable of folding Ax. Against anyone who is a 'reg' at these levels it's an exploitative fold imo.

Hand 2 - To answer your questions... Turn raise needs to be bigger with your entire range here. Your not getting value from your made hands and your not putting any pressure on the villain with your semi-bluffs. As played river is a call unless you have any reads this lead is only ever a flush. You will never get called by worse if you raise this river.

CraigSG1

I was pretty much going to say the same as chris, although I can't think of many regs who would allin bluff here. 

craigcu12

jimbo
hand 1 it hard to tell really as the most important parts needed for us to help are not mentioned.
A) when he does the 3bet preflop can Aj or Axs be included in his range or do we only see him doing the 3bet with AQ AK.
what would he be doing post flop with KK JJ 1010 (if they in his range of 3bets preflop).

the best piece of advice i can give you is to raise on the turn because i can see from his action on the river he over values the monsters so it won't be suprising to see him shove the turn if he has AQ QQ and you can make a safe fold.

hand 2 i will PM you.

The_Don90

1) urgh spot. i lean to  afold not sure i can make it in game though. Stinks of AQ/QQ i know thats a narrow as hell range but i cant see him having AJ ever with that line. Readless tho

2) Call river, going to be behind alot though. 

jimb0d1

I think its generally only going to be a solid 3b range from the opponent in hand 1. Prob Aj+ 99+..... I made the fold. I would guess that it was QQ trying to take me to value town on the river.

In hand 2 im not entirely sure why I bet so small on the turn, and I called the river as I expected craig to make a larger value bet there if hit his hand.

A lot of my problems in cash coming from trying to always get my opponents WHOLE stack when I hit 2 pair plus....of course im used to doing this in tournaments with shallow stacks but these are the types of hands where I am trying to slow down a bit. Cheers for your thoughts.

CraigSG1

In Response to Re: General help:

I think its generally only going to be a solid 3b range from the opponent in hand 1. Prob Aj+ 99+..... I made the fold. I would guess that it was QQ trying to take me to value town on the river. In hand 2 im not entirely sure why I bet so small on the turn, and I called the river as I expected craig to make a larger value bet there if hit his hand. A lot of my problems in cash coming from trying to always get my opponents WHOLE stack when I hit 2 pair plus....of course im used to doing this in tournaments with shallow stacks but these are the types of hands where I am trying to slow down a bit. Cheers for your thoughts.
Posted by jimb0d1

Never a truer point spoken. Its a big problem that MTT players have moving to cash IMO, and I have suffered for this. Sometimes too eager to get it in and often lose our customer and only keeping in the very strong ranges our opponents have. 

It took a while and its getting better but its still a problem. 

Unknown

Really wish I could dig this out for you and have a look to see what I had.

Not sure what I was doing with that weird preflop sizing.

I'm assuming that recovering the HH from my side is impossible by now?

shakinaces

Welcome to the forums Josh, hope to see you post more. Pre-flop seems reasonable (9x after 3x open).

It's hard to think of too many bluffs that would be in your range there in hand 1.  Unlikely to be diamonds, because then oppo is much less likely to have diamonds (more likely to have Ax) so would reduce value in bombing river.

JT maybe, would be worth a double barrel on turn for sure, but ballsy to pull the pin out the grenade on river.

Can only be a FH of some sort that hopes to get paid by Ax?

Am guessing Craig must have had the flush in hand 2, although I probably sigh call too often in these spots.  Seems like he pretty much has the odds to call with FD on turn but then, figuring your turn C/R to be set or strong 2pr, doesn't want to give you the chance to check behind on the river.

The check behind is fairly common at these stakes.  Something I think I need to work more on - to still value bet hands like QJ/77/44 on that board if checked to on river (but obviously fold river unless oppo-specific reason not to).

F_Ivanovic

Hand 1 - How do you play AQ, A9, QQ here? If you are always raising them on either the flop or turn then you cap your range by the river to Ax (AK, AJ, AT) . If he thinks your a good player capable of folding Ax otr most of the time then it's possible he can do this as a bluff. However, if you still have FH in your range then it's a lot harder for him to do this as a bluff since he has to know you will pretty much always fold AK here for his bluff to be working often enough.

Generally though if he doesn't know too much about you and he's a standard reg he will just assume you can't fold AK/AJ here enough and is trying to get max value from his FH.

mrleemr1

hand 1 vs reg I would fold, no info or not reg Im not gonna fold. 

hand 2 If your gonna raise make it lot bigger on turn. 

I would prefer 3b qjo here pre

Unknown

Hi Shakin, I will definitely start making the effort to be an active member!

D'you know if there's any way I can pull that hand history? I feel like I only ever really had QQ or AQ there, but who knows!? Would love to find out definitively.