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10NL Problems.
I had sixteen buyins, so I decided to take a shot at 10nl. It seems to be much, much more difficult than 4nl, where people will pay me off whenever I hit. Then again, I play 4nl during peak hours when people are getting home from work and the tables reach 40%+ players seeing the flop on average.
For comparison, I played 10nl from around 11am-1pm and got destroyed, ending down two buyins. I would never get paid off when I hit, but every time I ended up on the end of a bet or a raise, they actually had what they were representing. That said, here are the hands I had most trouble with:
Cake Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (9 handed) - Cake-Poker Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
saw flop
MP2 ($2.90)
MP3 ($5)
CO ($12.74)
Button ($5.85)
Hero (SB) ($10.60)
BB ($9.18)
UTG ($9.70)
UTG+1 ($5.56)
MP1 ($9.37)
Preflop: Hero is SB with J , J
1 fold, UTG+1 calls $0.10, 5 folds, Hero bets $0.40, 1 fold, UTG+1 calls $0.30
Flop: ($0.90) 6 , 9 , 2 (2 players)
Hero bets $0.45, UTG+1 calls $0.45
Turn: ($1.80) 10 (2 players)
Hero bets $0.90, UTG+1 raises to $4.71 (All-In), Hero folds
Total pot: $3.60 | Rake: $0.15
I made a standard cbet, but he called. The turn completed a straight draw if he was holding 78 and I fired another barrel for value. He moved all-in in response and I had no idea where I was but figured I wasn't pot-committed and it's never wrong to fold if I have doubt as to whether my hand is the likely winner.
Cake Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (8 handed) - Cake-Poker Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
saw flop
Button ($1)
SB ($7.09)
BB ($14.65)
HERO (UTG) ($10.85)
UTG+1 ($5.68)
MP1 ($13.60)
MP2 ($6.95)
CO ($7.18)
Preflop: HERO is UTG with A , Q
HERO bets $0.30, UTG+1 calls $0.30, 4 folds, SB calls $0.25, 1 fold
Flop: ($1) 10 , 8 , 3 (3 players)
SB checks, HERO bets $0.66, 1 fold, SB calls $0.66
Turn: ($2.32) 6 (2 players)
SB checks, HERO bets $1.33, SB raises to $3.16, HERO folds
Total pot: $4.98 | Rake: $0.20
I made a standard cbet hoping to take it down, but he called. I fired a turn barrel as that's standard too (is it not? this is what I'm really not sure about, how often I double-barrel when called. Almost every time, fyi), so he wouldn't be able to take advantage of my cbetting then c/f-ing the turn. When the SB committed himself to the pot, I figured he hit the flush and folded with nothing.
Cake Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (10 handed) - Cake-Poker Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
saw flop
Button ($3.60)
SB ($9.80)
BB ($4.55)
UTG ($8.35)
UTG+1 ($3.72)
UTG+2 ($9.85)
MP1 ($11.66)
MP2 ($4)
HERO (MP3) ($10.22)
CO ($6.96)
Preflop: HERO is MP3 with K , A
UTG calls $0.10, UTG+1 calls $0.10, 3 folds, HERO bets $0.50, 4 folds, UTG calls $0.40, UTG+1 calls $0.40
Flop: ($1.65) J , 7 , 10 (3 players)
UTG bets $1.65, 1 fold, HERO folds
Total pot: $1.65 | Rake: $0.05
I was going to cbet, but he lead into me on a flop I hadn't hit, with a PSB. I only had a gutshot straight draw and two over cards and figured the only way I could be sure I was ahead was if I hit my straight, which meant a call or raise would have been EV-, especially since since a couple of my "outs" would have put a third spade on the board.
Cake Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (8 handed) - Cake-Poker Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
saw flop
MP1 ($2.40)
HERO (MP2) ($9.71)
CO ($10)
Button ($13.57)
SB ($9.78)
BB ($9.75)
UTG ($6.70)
UTG+1 ($1.85)
Preflop: HERO is MP2 with Q , K
2 folds, MP1 calls $0.10, HERO bets $0.40, CO calls $0.40, 3 folds, MP1 calls $0.30
Flop: ($1.35) 9 , 3 , 6 (3 players)
MP1 checks, HERO checks, CO bets $0.68, 1 fold, HERO folds
Total pot: $1.35 | Rake: $0.05
I felt I was late enough to try to buy position with my marginal hand. I got two callers and didn't want to cbet the first only to be raised by the one behind me. Should I raise better hands from late position or did I likely induce a bluff?
I just felt completely lost in these hands. Actually, the relatively high tightness of all the tables I was playing at made me pretty fearful whenever I was facing a raise. I was also playing twelve tables, so getting specific reads was a bit difficult, but I could remember how my opponents play in pots with me, so I figured that was enough information to know how they play. None of these players stood out as being bad, like a couple others that would chase their draws with horrible odds (and hit them, leading to the losses of about one buyin). There were only a few of those and not even one on each table, though.
So I'd also like to know if there better sites than Cake for 10nl? I've heard that 10nl just isn't worth playing at Cake, since instead of getting better when people start getting home from work, it just gets worse. I've personally seen this pretty much every day just looking down the list. 4nl will have 30-40% players seeing flops, 20nl will have 20-30%, and 10nl will have the low 10%s. A lot of nits from China like to grind here, supposedly. Should I try another site even if I don't have any kind of extra software like PT or HEM?
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