OK, so I'm determined to become a HUSNG winning player.So far I'm doing well and the only opponent is myself. I tend to make bad calls, bluffs and 'hero calls'.BUT, day after day I'm improving my game and with this ocasion I want to thanks husng community. I got 2 hands.1st:PokerStars Hand #88036981405: Tournament #632221080, $1.40+$0.10 USD Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2012/10/22 5:26:58 ETTable '632221080 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the buttonSeat 1: notusednick (1460 in chips) Seat 2: idrinkiwin (1540 in chips) notusednick: posts small blind 10idrinkiwin: posts big blind 20*** HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to idrinkiwin [Kd Ad]notusednick: raises 30 to 50idrinkiwin: raises 110 to 160notusednick: calls 110*** FLOP *** [6s Qh 8d]idrinkiwin: checks notusednick: bets 160idrinkiwin: calls 160*** TURN *** [6s Qh 8d] [2d]idrinkiwin: checks notusednick: bets 300idrinkiwin: calls 300*** RIVER *** [6s Qh 8d 2d] [4s]idrinkiwin: bets 420notusednick: folds 2nd: (I was playing against a very LAG player) PokerStars Hand #88058722230: Tournament #632436932, $1.40+$0.10 USD Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level II (15/30) - 2012/10/22 14:31:40 ETTable '632436932 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the buttonSeat 1: idrinkiwin (845 in chips) Seat 2: Voigtibär (2155 in chips) idrinkiwin: posts small blind 15Voigtibär: posts big blind 30*** HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to idrinkiwin [Qc Qs]idrinkiwin: raises 30 to 60Voigtibär: raises 120 to 180idrinkiwin: raises 665 to 845 and is all-inVoigtibär: folds Did I do right in both situations ?
The second hand is easy so let's do that first. That is the correct play generally unless he 3 bet bluffs light then you can call and let him hit something. You're still pretty deep by husng standards so if you shove here you need to know he 3 bets with a decent value range that he gets it in. If this is mostly a bluff and he flats his value range than you should call here. At the 1.50 level you should shove here 99% of the time. In the first hand, You need to c bet this board. You raised preflop and therefore you need to bet first to act, not check. You need to say I have the Q or better here, and therefore you (the other guy) needs to fold unless you can beat me. He has to give you a fair bit of respect if he doesn't have a Q or better because you raised preflop and he can't have any reads on you yet.If you bet here and he calls, unless you pick up some equity on the turn you will be check folding. I would look at check calling a diamond draw since I don't think he can fold anything he called the flop with. If you got an A or K I would bet it.As played, I would have given up on the flop at the 10/20 blind level with no reads. Even if you do call this with the intention to take it away on a later street or hit an A or K, you can't call this turn bet. You have A high against someone who should a Q or better here most of the time. There are no draws. He is representing a Q or a premium pocket pair (more likely AQ, KQ, QJ since he flatted, the reason he doesn't care what you have is because he is looking at his own two cards so he will keep betting with top pair). You have no reason to believe he bluffs on dry boards like this and therefore you cannot continue.
tyvm for your answer sir. Furthermore, how I can beat a LAG player ? or a rock ?
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At the 1.50 level there arn't really any good LAGs, mostly just people raising stupid crap. If someone keeps 3 betting me preflop a lot and I know they are doing it because they are just a spaz pressing buttons I just start shoving a wider value range (even if we are deepish, I wouldn't shove 75bbs since I wouldn't have this kind of read on him, but I would shove 20 - 30bbs). However, if someone actually is 3 betting for a reason, not because they are just doing it with any two cards they think look pretty (I have stacked off with people and they flip over trash like J4s etc), but they are 3 betting you a lot, you can 4 bet if you get a strong hand or call with a wider value range than you normally would. These are kind of complex concepts if you're new since you won't have a great idea of what constitutes a standard value range and how you widen that range against someone. That's really the purpose of a training site like this though. You also need to make adjustments preflop by not raising any two cards and raising a slightly tighter headsup range (but it's still a huge range of cards, even like 75% depending on the amount of 3 bets). You can also adjust by limping your same raising range then calling a small minraise to what would have been your normal raise size anyway. If they start 4xing or 5xing your limps it kind of sucks though, so you have to see how they adjust to you doing that. Postflop vs a LAG is mostly about flopping a hand/equity and letting him bluff into you or value bet you with a worse hand. You basically flop top pair and almost never fold and you should be ok at the 1.50 level. You can rebluff them if they keep raising you on dry boards. I have hands where I 3 bet, he calls, I c bet a dry board like 882, he raises, I shove, he folds. In such an instance I might have like K high or Q high and really know equity. You have to be pretty sure about your read to do this too. If you're card dead you need to put some moves on them too but you need to pick good spots. Also against a LAG you need to get better at hand reading and recognising board textures. There is no way I can fold a pair on a drawy board to a LAG. I would need to know more about his river tendencies but I can easily call a decent sized bet on the river with middle or bottom pair if lots of draws miss and its a circumstance where it's too unlikely to have top pair. VS some rock passive fish you just open raise any two cards on the BTN, play tight in the BB (because he isn't raising much you get to walk a lot), and if you go in post flop c bet most boards since he will fold so much since he misses a lot. If he gets aggressive after being very passive you can pretty safely fold unless you have a very strong holding. If you call a raise from a rock you need to have the goods since when a rock starts being aggressive they have something very good and they are almost never folding.
tyvm sirI take notice right now and I feel so good that I have so many usefull answer. Do you have further advices about other types of player and my play? I have a 50$ BR atm.
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