Hello,
this is my first post on a poker forum. I have just started playing poker NLHE about 5 weeks ago - deposited $50 on Party Poker and am currently playing the micro stakes in order to gain experience. I don't really expect to make money at this level as a) I don't know what i'm doing yet and b) the rake.
Currently i'm playing to get to the level where I can calculate pot odds whilst playing, start to get a feel for reading the flop texture and seeing if I can correctly see what nut hands are possible, trying to work out what worse hands will call me if I raise etc... I also want to see how well I can take bad beats, coolers etc... to see if it affects my play.
My question here is one of a risk\ruin nature. I was playing last night 6max 2NL and a player joined the table short stacked (90c) - within about 10 hands he had already gone all-in pre flop about 6 times. He wasn't hiding his cards, so we could see he was playing any two cards (1 picture card offsuit with a low rag). Everybody was folding to him and he was stealing any dead money that was in the pot.
I took him on twice - first with pocket 8s than a bit later with pocket 6s and lost both times. Both I consider to be bad beats (I even hit a set on the flop with my 6s) - afterwards I ran the hands through HM2 and on the turn I was 85% and 97% fav to win respectively, but come the river I lost both times.
Was I right to get involved in these hands? Would it have been better just to swap tables and avoid the possibility of getting busted out twice? Were low pocket pairs just not good enough in this scenario (he won by pairing up jacks on the first hand and getting trip aces on the second)?
Thanks.