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Too agressive?
| Player | Action | Cards | Amount | Pot | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Termiator1 | Small blind | 300.00 | 300.00 | 17285.00 | |
| DietChips | Big blind | 600.00 | 900.00 | 16265.00 | |
| Your hole cards |
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| Greenbud | Raise | 2400.00 | 3300.00 | 17260.00 | |
| nezbeau | Fold | ||||
| beebaz1 | Fold | ||||
| Termiator1 | Fold | ||||
| DietChips | Call | 1800.00 | 5100.00 | 14465.00 | |
| Flop | |||||
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| DietChips | Check | ||||
| Greenbud | Bet | 3825.00 | 8925.00 | 13435.00 | |
| DietChips | Raise | 7650.00 | 16575.00 | 6815.00 | |
| Greenbud | Fold | ||||
| DietChips | Muck | ||||
| DietChips | Win | 12750.00 | 19565.00 | ||
Just been looking through a few of my hands from a tournament I played in earlier and was just wondering if you guys think my raise was too much? Greenbud raised/bet quite a lot twice so I thought it would be a good move.
Could he have just been bluffing?
Comments
As you didn't 3-bet pre-flop, you really shouldn't raise this flop. There's so little that he could be holding that's ever going to call your raise. He really needs to have two-pair, undersets, AA, KK or the remaining Queen in order to carry on in the hand. (That's a very narrow range) You've put in more than half of your stack so it's obvious that you can never fold now.
In fact, if you were going to raise it would have looked much weaker if you'd have just shoved, because the min-raise for more than half of your stack looks so strong. But, as has been said, you should not be raising this flop.
Speaking more generally, it's almost always a bad idea to min-raise after the flop. In a tournament it's fine and often advisable to min-raise before the flop in an unopened pot and I think this is where there is some confusion on Sky Poker. Pre-flop it's fine, after the flop it's not. It just serves no purpose unless there are some real meta-game issues which you think you can exploit. That will only apply in very specific circumstances and so the min-raise should really not be part of your regular game.
flat flop, if you really want to raise jam
You have chosen to call which is deceptive and have flopped the nuts. There is no way your opponent can now think you are so strong... unless of course you do something really strong like say check-min-raising...
Seriously, this is pretty bad. Imagine you are the villian holding AQ. You raise pre, get called and then get check raised on a flop as dry as this. He can now only shove or fold given his stack size and if he folds he will still have /> 20BBs to play with.
On the other hand if you check call on the flop there are any number of turn cards that can improve your opponent's hand and even more cards that he can represent.
Call the flop and then check raise the turn. If he checks the turn back to you then on the river your stack size will be less than pot and you can ship it. Doing this increases your chances of stacking your opponent. The way you play it you only get the stack if your opponent has AA or KK
As for possition this is big issue and along with bet sizing is one of the parts of the game often overlooked by those new to the game.
At a six-handed table the possitions are called as follows working clockwise from the button (dealer). Small blind (SB), Big blind (BB), Under the gun (UTG), Under the gun +1 (UTG+1), cut-off (CO) and button (BTN).
UTG is prehaps the worst possition because you act first in the hand (before you know what the other players will do) and will more than likely have to act first after the flop as well. BTN is the best possition because no matter what happens pre-flop you get to see what everyone else does on the flop before you make your bet.
The blinds are a special case because you get to act last pre-flop but will be out of possition post-flop. This is why most 3-bets are made from the blinds, because they often want to end the hand without a flop to avoid playing out of possition.
Another thing to consider is hand strength. Your opening range (the hands that you will enter a pot with) should be much tighter from early possition (Good aces, big pairs) while from the button you can open with a much wider range (suited connectors, ace-rag, suited broadways). You should also consider this with your opponent's hand strength. When you come to guessing your opponents hand a player is more likely to have a strong hand if he opened from UTG than if he opened the hand from the button.
In this example your villian made a very big raise (normally would be 2.5xBB - 3xBB not 4xBB) from UTG to his range should be very strong hands only.
Read up on possition, read up on bet sizing, and think about what your opponent might have and how you would play the hand if you were in their possition with the hand(s) that you have assigned to them. You should do this every hand. Don't fall into the trap of only playing the strength of your hand. Here you thought "I have the nuts, time to bet hard." when what you need to be thinking is "I have a nearly unbeatable hand; what does my opponent have, and how can I convince him to put all his chips in the middle?"
Enjoy the game and run good.