some random thoughts and advice requests :)
1st some hands I've played:
hand 1)
Q4s
I made flush on the river with A on the table. There was some raising action and I lost to the K!!!! In this case, should I antecipate the K and just call?
I mean, what are the odds? there was no pair on the table and no chance for sequence, so I lost to the only hand that could beat me.
hand 2)
QQ
the table: Q25J4 rainbow
I raised allways from the pre flop to the river, and on the river I got reraised by this guy. I thought: Only A3 can beat me, but who would pay so much for a long shot 4 on the river??? I reraised and lost to A3 unsuited!!!!
Should I have expected that someone would pay for an 11/1 chance on the river???
hand 3)
77, 1st positions.
I called, but someone raised and I folded.
Of course there was a 7 on the flop :)
The question is: small pairs... They suck so much! They can only be good if there is a 3 of a kind on the flop. Should I call small pairs? If so how do I play them?
some thoughts:
I lost countless times in the river to hands far worst than mine. It seems that in low limit the bad players are rewarded for bad play. I lost with QK with a Q on the table to someone with Q9 who got a 9 on the river, and this is a "good" example. I lost to some stupid bad hands with good hands because people play everything and get lucky on me.
Am I playing to strict? Should I pursue luck? Everytime I play with a subpair hand I loose to good hands, wich seems fine to me, if it worked the other way around :)
thx for the time and for the help,
Rui
Re: some random thoughts and advice requests :)
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Originally Posted by rmariani
1st some hands I've played:
hand 1)
Q4s
I made flush on the river with A on the table. There was some raising action and I lost to the K!!!! In this case, should I antecipate the K and just call?
You shouldn't play this hand unless you're in the blinds. Assuming this was the case your play sounds like it was ok, but I'd have to see the history to be sure. Usually a Q high fl will hold up. How many flush cards were on the board? Did he have two of them as well? If so, this was a very very rare beat and you did absolutely nothing wrong calling on the river. (Can't comment about the rest of the hand though).
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Originally Posted by rmariani
hand 2)
QQ
the table: Q25J4 rainbow
I raised allways from the pre flop to the river, and on the river I got reraised by this guy. I thought: Only A3 can beat me, but who would pay so much for a long shot 4 on the river??? I reraised and lost to A3 unsuited!!!!
Should I have expected that someone would pay for an 11/1 chance on the river???
How much were you raising when you raised? If you were min-raising, this type of thing will happen a lot. Think of raises in terms of the pot (a big raise is bettting the pot or more; medium raise is up to 3/4 the pot; small raise 1/4-1/2 the pot...raises less that half the pot are usually not a good idea unless you have the nuts, because too many people can adequately call).
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Originally Posted by rmariani
hand 3)
77, 1st positions.
I called, but someone raised and I folded.
Of course there was a 7 on the flop :)
The question is: small pairs... They suck so much! They can only be good if there is a 3 of a kind on the flop. Should I call small pairs? If so how do I play them?
How much was the raise preflop? As mentioned above, unless it was huge, you probably should have called.
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Originally Posted by rmariani
some thoughts:
I lost countless times in the river to hands far worst than mine. It seems that in low limit the bad players are rewarded for bad play. I lost with QK with a Q on the table to someone with Q9 who got a 9 on the river, and this is a "good" example. I lost to some stupid bad hands with good hands because people play everything and get lucky on me.
Am I playing to strict? Should I pursue luck? Everytime I play with a subpair hand I loose to good hands, wich seems fine to me, if it worked the other way around :)
It sounds like part of where you're losing out may be that you're playing too passive. When you have it, you don't just want to raise enough to get more in the pot. You want to raise enough that they are making a mistake by calling, if they call. You'll commonly hear talk of "putting the hard decision on the other player." You need to raise enough that it makes their decision difficult (or it makes a fold easy). Do this only when you have the hands though. Definitely don't start trying to rely on luck. That's a losing play for sure!
- Jeffrey
