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You do have reads, and talking about a poker hand without your reads is pointless.
If it's your first orbit at the table, then post your population reads.
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You do not have to post blinds the moment you sit down at a seat. It is your right to watch an orbit (or more) before you play a hand on any poker site I ever played on.
Stop playing against villains you know nothing about. Sit out and watch them for 5 minutes or so before you start playing against them.
Besides, you have reads from THIS hand you're actively in. You posted them. You guessed at ranges. Excellent!
That tells me that you are paying attention to the Villains.
So that's why I'm guessing that you're not putting enough weight onto having reads in the first place. Your number one goal at the table is to understand the specific villains you're up against so you can shred them like a boss.
Your number one goal when away from the tables is to understand yourself, your positional ranges, how your ranges hit various flop textures, how you bet in HU vs. multi-handed pots, etc.
It's not the only goal. Thinking about villains is always important, but you must understand what you're doing in order to understand what they're doing, IMO.
I'm picking on the first line of this post because the rest of the hand is pretty trivial and you played it fine. You don't raise to bluff your hand without a read that Villain can fold to your raise.
In general, don't try to bluff in multi-handed pots. You gotta bluff not either, but BOTH villains to get it through, and that's much less frequent. If one of them would fold 1/3 the time and the other 1/2 the time, then your bluff will only work against both of them 1/6 the time.
Also note that your implied odds in multi-handed pots goes up quite a bit. Being on a strong draw in a multi-handed pot is almost always +EV to call. The more villains that can pay you off when you hit the nuts, the better.
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