Is call an option or should I be deciding between all in and folding

craigcu12

Situations like this rarely end without me questioning my decision, sometimes i'm left relieve over a small loss other times i'm relieved to have won and then their are the times i'm left annoyed over losing to much or thinking I didn't get the maximum value.

What is common about the majority of these hands is the majority of my stack will be going in the middle, it's a question now of whether sny should be considered a call or do I chose to go all in if not fold?

H1

craigcu12	Small blind		£0.05	£0.05	£9.95
lasthere	Big blind		£0.10	£0.15	£10.12
	Your hole cards	K K
x	Call		£0.10	£0.25	£10.96
angermoose	Call		£0.10	£0.35	£11.00
supercrazy	Fold
ATG1010	Fold
craigcu12	Raise		£0.45	£0.80	£9.50
lasthere	Fold
x	Call		£0.40	£1.20	£10.56
angermoose	Fold
Flop
		10 J K
craigcu12	Bet		£1.50	£2.70	£8.00
x	Call		£1.50	£4.20	£9.06
Turn
		A
craigcu12	Check
x	Bet		£4.20	£8.40	£4.86
craigcu12	?

H2

matthew064	Small blind		£0.05	£0.05	£11.17
mongo229	Big blind		£0.10	£0.15	£9.92
Shentoku	Sit out
	Your hole cards	Q A
a	Call		£0.10	£0.25	£15.57
zzzzzzz	Call		£0.10	£0.35	£7.24
craigcu12	Raise		£0.40	£0.75	£9.60
matthew064	Fold
mongo229	Fold
ReferKing	Call		£0.30	£1.05	£15.27
zzzz	Call		£0.30	£1.35	£6.94
Flop
		Q 8 A
a	Check
zz	Check
craigcu12	Bet		£0.70	£2.05	£8.90
a	Call		£0.70	£2.75	£14.57
zzzzzz	Fold
Turn
		6
a	Bet		£1.38	£4.13	£13.19
craigcu12	Call		£1.38	£5.51	£7.52
River
		9
a	Bet		£5.51	£11.02	£7.68
craigcu12	?

H3

skin99	Small blind		£0.04	£0.04	£7.96
Bazooker78	Big blind		£0.08	£0.12	£1.12
	Your hole cards	A J
b	Call		£0.08	£0.20	£12.53
craigcu12	Raise		£0.32	£0.52	£7.68
Rexx	Fold
bigduckgc	Fold
skin99	Fold
c	Call		£0.24	£0.76	£0.88
JINTY	Call		£0.24	£1.00	£12.29
Flop
		A 9 4
c	Check
b	Bet		£1.00	£2.00	£11.29
craigcu12	Call		£1.00	£3.00	£6.68
c	All-in		£0.88	£3.88	£0.00
Turn
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shakinaces

Hand 1 - meh, seems odd that villain would pot it with a Qx rather than a smaller bet that can tempt weaker hands into calling, especially when pot size means he can easily shove rivers.

Not sure I see the point in you shoving as all you'll do is fold his bluffs / get called by his Qx.

Suppose option is to bluff catch and hope the board pairs / he opts to check back river, but only because he shouldn't really be bombing it with a Qx.  Although I get that as he's limped UTG we can assume he's a weaker player and likely to play suboptimally post flop.

Hand 2 - it sucks that JT gets there, but with top 2 I think you have no choice but to call here unless you have very specific notes on how villain plays.  A limp/call range is going to include plenty of 2 pair hands that might do this.  Could even see some spewy bluff with a weak pair and missed clubs.

But yeah, I think readless we always call here.  Actually just looking back, we only have £2 behind... meh going all in vs call probably not too far apart.  Definitely not folding though.

Hand 3 - I think I'd be tempted to raise his donk bet here.  Charge him the max for any flush draws he's semi-bluffing with, can still have lots of worse Ax hands.  Although just call multi-way also fine.

As played the turn is a fold, particularly as he's not bombing into a side pot (accepting that he probably isn't thinking about that). If he turns up with a weak Ax or something totally spewy then take a note and patiently wait to take his chips next time you flop a decent top pair hand or better.