AQ to river fluff spot???

Merge Network $0.02/$0.04 No Limit Hold'em - 8 players -

BTN: $4.17
SB: $4.02
BB: $4.36
UTG: $2.76
UTG+1: $5.66
MP1: $0.92
Hero (MP2): $2.70
CO: $2.47

Pre Flop: ($0.06) Hero is MP2 with A :heart: Q :diamond:
UTG raises to $0.22, 2 folds, Hero raises to $0.40, 4 folds, UTG calls $0.18

Flop: ($0.86) 6 :heart: 3 :club: 4 :diamond: (2 players)
UTG bets $0.04, Hero calls $0.04

Turn: ($0.94) 6 :club: (2 players)
UTG bets $0.08, Hero calls $0.08

River: ($1.10) 9 :diamond: (2 players)
UTG checks, [color=red]Hero bets $1.10 ????

with his betting I am putting him on a very weak hand. But I guess my line looks retarded lol. What do you guys think.

Oh and I tried the FTR hand converter about 5 times kept getting error "failed to parse game header" Does anyone know how to fix this??

Reload to full stack. Preflop 3bet sizing is bad, 3bet in general is bad considering villain is UTG and you've posted no other reads. On the river I'd call your bet since the only strong hand you're repping is 99 and even then I wouldn't include that in your 3betting range, so yeah def looks bluffy b/c it doesn't make much sense. Also, I've seen you at 4NL. You limp too much from what I've seen (small sample tho).

Yuck.

Just food pre.

why you playing 70bb?
any reads at all on pfr? has he opened 5.5x before?
fold pre mostly, if you 3b then size it bigger.
Raise turn as played. Check back river and win at showdown against anything that is going to fold to your bet, saving money against everything else

read the aokrongly 19 hand article then renton's 169 hand article

as OP said ' it looks retarded'

Fold pre readless probably fine. As played I'd raise the flop donk.
I'd probably raise the turn donk too if I misclicked and called the flop.
Now I don't know wtf to do. I feel like if we shove we're gonna get looked up unless we're already winning soo obv check I guess.

I'd probably fold pre readless. I'd raise the mindonk on the flop since I'd treat it just like a check. On the river, I guess I'd check since the only reason we'd be playing the flop and turn this was because we thought we had showdown value and wanted to get to the river cheaply.

Nah I'm not folding this at micros, 3bet/fold to around $0.55, I expect worse to call enough times, and better nearly always 4bets. He's unknown, so I assume reg microdonk who calls too many 3bets only to fold to flop cbet.
As played, raise flop.
As played, raise turn.
As played, check river.

If showdown, make notes about his weak betting on flop and turn. In fact, note it anyway.

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Originally Posted by daven

why you playing 70bb?
any reads at all on pfr? has he opened 5.5x before?
fold pre mostly, if you 3b then size it bigger.
Raise turn as played. Check back river and win at showdown against anything that is going to fold to your bet, saving money against everything else

read the aokrongly 19 hand article then renton's 169 hand article

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I don't want to sound like a retard but why are we folding this pre? Is it because his range would be super tight considering he is UTG? Thanks for all the help.

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Originally Posted by gotigers1234

I don't want to sound like a retard but why are we folding this pre? Is it because his range would be super tight considering he is UTG? Thanks for all the help.

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Yeah, that's why reads are important here. A nitty player would have AQ near the bottom end of his range UTG, so there aren't any hands you're getting value out of here by 3betting. In fact since our hand fares so badly against a tight player's opening range UTG, a fold makes sense. What was your logic behind 3betting? If it was "I have a nice hand, I'm going to raise", that's level 0 thinking, and it's time to start moving up the levels.

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Originally Posted by eugmac

Yeah, that's why reads are important here. A nitty player would have AQ near the bottom end of his range UTG, so there aren't any hands you're getting value out of here by 3betting. In fact since our hand fares so badly against a tight player's opening range UTG, a fold makes sense. What was your logic behind 3betting? If it was "I have a nice hand, I'm going to raise", that's level 0 thinking, and it's time to start moving up the levels.

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That is exactly what I was thinking at the time. Now I see what the problem. Thank you for your help