Found myself down 3 BIs within about 100 hands today, and I lost all of that on just two hands:

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.05 BB (9 handed) Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

UTG ($10)
UTG+1 ($10.08)
MP1 ($17.83)
MP2 ($15.73)
MP3 ($2.31)
Hero ($9.21)
Button ($5.55)
SB ($3.68)
BB ($14.25)

Preflop: Hero is CO with J, J.
3 folds, MP2 calls $0.05, 1 fold, Hero raises to $0.2, 1 fold, SB calls $0.18, 1 fold, MP2 calls $0.15.

Flop: ($0.65) 8, 3, 6 (3 players)
SB checks, MP2 checks, Hero bets $0.5, SB calls $0.50, MP2 folds.

Turn: ($1.65) T (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $1.3, SB raises to $2.98, Hero calls $1.68.

River: ($7.61) 7 (2 players)

Final Pot: $7.61

Villain is 16/0/6 (19). I figured there were only three cards in the deck that beat me (7d 9d very unlikely), but frankly his play was perfectly consistent with having one of them, and not consistent with much else. Still couldn't stop myself calling with what was in reality a weak flush.

He could have been trying to represent it without having it, but hey, that would be higher level thinking and this is 5NL.


Hand 2:

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.05 BB (8 handed) Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver Cards)

MP2 ($9.65)
CO ($10.02)
Button ($17.80)
SB ($3.51)
Hero ($10.55)
UTG ($5.50)
UTG+1 ($3)
MP1 ($2.10)

Preflop: Hero is BB with , . UTG+1 posts a blind of $0.05.
1 fold, UTG+1 (poster) checks, 2 folds, CO calls $0.05, Button calls $0.05, 1 fold, Hero raises to $0.2, UTG+1 folds, CO calls $0.15, Button calls $0.15.

Flop: ($0.67) , , (3 players)
Hero bets $0.6, CO folds, Button raises to $1.2, Hero raises to $10.35, Button calls $9.15.

Turn: ($21.37) (2 players)

River: ($21.37) (2 players)

Final Pot: $21.37

Villain here is 35/1/1 (300+). Smaller-than-ideal raise pre-flop was an adjustment to a generally tight table, although this villain was probably the loosest there. I figured at the time that there were a few hands he could have raised post flop here - any set (bad for me), anything with a 10 (good for me - until the turn that is!!). I hoped to take it down on the flop with that push, but alas no.

This one I'm not so sure I played that badly. I should've gone bigger pre-flop, but other than that should I have played this any differently?? Given his low AF, should I have assumed raise = set here?