Played yesterday....2 big hands back to back
KsQs
-Raise call a 3 bet, pre. 3 way to the flop.
-Flop KcQh2d. Check call flop....three way to the turn.
-Turn 4d. Check. Player 2 bets. Player 3 raises. I push all in. Player 2 folds. Player 3 snap calls.
-River. 8d. Player 3 shows 9d3d. Lost 250bb.
Ac8c
-Call a raise pre flop. Heads up.
-Flop 8h7c2h. I Check call.
-Turn 2c. I lead. Player raises really big. I call.
-River Jh. I check. Opoonent checks. Opponent shows Jc3h. Lost 100bb.
Few hands later had 8h9h on a 7h10h2c board. Opponent goes all in for 100bb into a 20bb pot. I call. He had AA. I missed.
A mere -800euro for the session.
Cannot catch a break recently.
hand 1 -
Very weak call by guy in hand one.
Hard to see any Pot Odds that would justify it. Some people just love to make hero calls but even if he thinks you have nothing, which he could have believed based on you massively polarizing your hand to either a monster or a bluff with your Turn shove he still could not beat even a single Broadway card without his hand improving.
If he hit the 4 on the turn and even had 3rd pair with the ability to improve to the flush draw or two pair or trips if you had something, then I could see his call if he thought your polarized hand was a bluff. But again a quick run of the pot odds would be necessitated.
He played it like a fish.
Hand 2 -
I would likely shove the turn (need to know stack sizes, and how much already committed to be sure) with top pair and the nut flush draw. Most times you take the pot down right there and if have run into a bigger hand you have outs against all of them. If you hit your Ace you have Top 2 pair and beat everything but flopped sets. If he has a set you are drawing to the Nut Flush. But just calling with the top pair 8's leaves you vulnerable to him turning over 9/9 or hitting a random card as he did and sucking out on you.
that said if you had a sense he was ahead in the hand and had a hand he might not fold if you shove then pot control and waiting for draw is fine.
Hand 3 -
Are you heads up into the Flop and you called a 10BB preflop bet and with your money in the pot is now 20BB going into the Flop?
His 10BB bet is signalling he has a hand like QQ, KK or AA.
I love to call with suited connectors when I suspect my opponent has a monster. If I hit Trip's I know I will take all his money (so looking at implied odds matters there as if he has almost no money back after the big flop bet, I am not calling for what amounts to a flop race)
Ok you don't flop trip's but you hit a monster draw. He is not wrong to shove on you and you are not wrong to call. You would not be wrong to shove on him either had he raised the flop and you acted second. But you know you are behind and need to hit and you missed.
Tis poker, the poker gods are cruel and on days like that I can't help but think of this line from Spartacus by Batiatus...
