analysis please

[Big Dazz]

OK,

here's a recent hand that i rather well and rather poorly at $10 on
Bet365poker. Give me some feedback, then i'll let you know the result and more importantly what i was thinking as the hand progressed.

Typical passive $10 game and it was only my second hand.

cheers.

** Game ID 1022421156 starting - 2006-11-06 13:10:47
** Sling Blade [Hold 'em] (0.05|0.10 No Limit - Cash Game) Real Money

- kingen sitting in seat 1 with $7.95
- hero sitting in seat 2 with $9.90
- Corn sitting in seat 3 with $9.47
- villain sitting in seat 4 with $20.78
- rin sitting in seat 5 with $9.00 [Dealer]
- lyck sitting in seat 6 with $1.60
- Yenl sitting in seat 7 with $9.90
- Mr-No sitting in seat 8 with $9.75
- mfc sitting in seat 9 with $7.96
- drac sitting in seat 10 with $9.45

lyck posted the small blind - $0.05
Yeno posted the big blind - $0.10

** Dealing card to hero: 10 of Hearts, Ace of Diamonds
Mr-No folded
mfc called - $0.10
dra folded
trav called - $0.10
hero raised - $0.50
Corn folded
villian called - $0.50
rina called - $0.50
lyck folded
Yen folded
mfc folded
trav called - $0.50

** Dealing the flop: 7 of Hearts, 5 of Clubs, 10 of Spades
trav checked
hero bet - $2.10
villain called - $2.10
rin folded
trav folded

** Dealing the turn: 3 of Spades
hero bet - $1.53
villain called - $1.53

** Dealing the river: 2 of Hearts
hero checked
villian bet - $4.60
tug_one_out called - $4.60
villain shows: King of Diamonds, 10 of Clubs
hero shows: 10 of Hearts, Ace of Diamonds
hero wins $18.41 from the main pot

End of game 1022421156

[Xanadu]

You bet the pot on the flop and got called on a mostly disconnected board. Villain happened to have one of the weakest hands you can expect here. You put nearly a full stack in the pot with a pair of Ts. In the long run, I think you will lose your stack here more often than take one. I don't like the preflop raise, and I think that's where the trouble starts. You build a big pot that is likely to be multi-way with a marginal hand that doesn't play well multi-way.

[XTR1000]

dont raise here preflop.


why do you bet pot sized on the flop and put only 1/4 in on turn? if you don´t think your hand is good here, check and maybe call and look for a cheap showdown. such smallish bet on turn is a waste of money, you´re giving great odds to draw on you, you´re not getting the max amount of money in the middle if you´re ahead and villian is willing to call plus you´re screaming weakness. assuming you´d fold if villians pushes here, a check would have been the cheaper way.

[Big Dazz]

I messed up here - forgot to hide the result.

You put nearly a full stack in the pot with a pair of Ts. In the long run, I think you will lose your stack here more often than take one

Yeh agreed - i was pleased (but not suprised) he turned over the ten. Not suprised because at this limit many players regard TPTK as a strong hand.

You build a big pot that is likely to be multi-way with a marginal hand that doesn't play well multi-way.

I was hoping that the raise would result in head up play.

why do you bet pot sized on the flop and put only 1/4 in on turn?

The flop bet was an attempt to take the pot. I got a caller so i decided to slow down. You see, this is the difficulty - i reckon that a pot bet on a multi-way flop show weakness - players will realise that it an attempt to take the pot with a weakish hand and therefore call. As villain still only called my 1/4 turn bet i then felt he was also weak. I called his river bet as i still had him on a weak hand purley because there was no raise and felt the bet was in response to my weak check. I was trying to showdown as cheaply as possible without showing weakness.

No doubt played it like a donkey though.

Thanks for your'e input