Ouch! AAA going down to suited connectors

Read on UTG+2. PT rate him as kind of fishy, but I had very few hands to make a good read.

0.25/0.5$ NL 10 player

Dealt to Borax in MP1
:As::Ah:
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OpeningBetRound
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SB : Posts small blind 0.25
BB : Posts big blind 0.50
UTG : Folds
UTG+1 : Calls for 0.50
UTG+2 : Calls for 0.50
Borax : Raises for 3.00
MP2 : Calls for 3.00
MP3 : Folds
CO : Folds
Button : Folds
SB : Folds
BB : Folds
UTG+1 : Calls for 2.50
UTG+2 : Calls for 2.50
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Flop
:6s::9h::8h:
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UTG+1 : Bets 3.00
UTG+2 : Folds
Borax : Raises for 12.00
MP2 : Folds
UTG+1 : Calls for 9.00
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Turn
:5d:
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UTG+1 : Bets 2.50
Borax : Calls for 2.50
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River
:ad:
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UTG+1 : Bets 27.00
Borax : Raises for 54.00
UTG+1 : Went all-in 10.12
Borax : Receives returned betting money 16.88
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Showdown
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UTG+1
:9h::8h::7c::6s::5d: - :8c: - Straight - 9 high
Borax
:ad::as::ah::9h::8h: - Three of a Kind - A's
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Result
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UTG+1 Showed Cards (Winning) 112.99
Borax Showed Cards
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I slowed down on the turn, thinking he was slowplaying set or straight, but the last A made me go for it. A little black out in my brain there, since the Ace doesn't change the straight danger, although I was hoping to bust his set....

I think I should have raised more on the flop, (maybe also preflop, but actually the table had been folding a lot to 3-4xBB preflop earlier). In fact I was fearing the flush more than the straight after the preflop betting..

Raise the turn and you'll quickly find out that you're beat.

You called on the turn when you have a lack of information. You should have been raising to avoid a messy river. If you didn't hit your ace, what sorts of river bets would you call? (up to what?)

-'rilla

I have soooooo much to learn... :cry:
makes it interesting though :)

Raising more preflop there is rediculous if it's been 2-way or less from 4xBB raises. You don't really want to take it down preflop...you want one or two callers. If that size of a bet doesn't give those results most of the time at this table, then raise more. Doing it now for any other reason is advertising your hand.

I aggree. I don't vary my preflop bets much. Usually 2-3$ is enough at 0.25/0.5$ NL, but I see several guys on this forum preaching for higher preflop raises. Sometimes I increase or decrease my bet to confuse though.

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Originally Posted by Borax

I aggree. I don't vary my preflop bets much. Usually 2-3$ is enough at 0.25/0.5$ NL, but I see several guys on this forum preaching for higher preflop raises. Sometimes I increase or decrease my bet to confuse though.

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Most of the pots I win go like this.

"Raise in mp by me. CO-Button-SB-BB call. Flop comes XXX. Check to me OR I'm first to act, I fire out a bet twice my prefloip raise. All folds and I win."

So, If increase my preflop raise by just 1 BB that equates to 4 or 5 BBs per 100. Of course, there is a point where you wont get callers anymore. I think that value is 7 and greater. But between 4-6, you're ok.

I personally stick with 4 becuase I dont want to give my opponents much more reason to fight me post flop. But I can easily understand the merits of 6.

-'rilla

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rilla wrote:

Most of the pots I win go like this.

"Raise in mp by me. CO-Button-SB-BB call. Flop comes XXX. Check to me OR I'm first to act, I fire out a bet twice my prefloip raise. All folds and I win."

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Maybe a stupid question, but when you say you raise 4xBB from MP, would that be a 2.5$ bet or a 2$ bet when the BB is 0.5$?

Does your example mean that your average bet will be about half pot on the flop? So for my game 0.25/0.5$ your example will be like this:

SB posts 0.25
BB posts 0.5
UTG fold
UTG+1 fold
UTG+2 call for 0.5
MP1 fold
MP2 fold
MP3 raise to 2
CO call for 2
SB call 1.75 to 2
BB call 1.5 to 2
UTG+2 fold

FLOP XXX

MP3 bet 4 (pot 8.5$)
CO, SB, BB fold

Yes, I'd raise to 2 bucks at .25/.5 NL

Though, I would only bet that flop if I was second to last or last to act. Give everyone a chance to fight for it.

I will bet from any position as a continuation bet if it's 3 or 2 people to the flop.

I will also not bet flops that I feel are hard to rep like J:heart: T:heart: 5:heart:

I will however bet on a flop like 3:club:3:spade:2:heart: (With 4 people) hoping for an aware player to give me a raise so I can bump it up again and wins more monnies.

-'rilla

ok-thanks :)