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This show of strength will very likely win you the pot on the flop unless the raiser hits his hand or a good draw. By just calling you are showing weakness that allows the raiser to continue betting into you on the flop regardless of whether he hits or not and you are going to have a harder time playing your hand if overcards to your 9 hit as happened here.
As far as your stats go here are my opinions:
1. You are not defending your BB enough. If you are only facing a single person that has raised you should defend much more, if two or more people have entered a raised pot no shame in mucking most of the hands.
2. Your preflop agression in terms of you raising is much too low. Your VIP% is such that you are only playing very good cards so why not raise most of these as they are generally going to be the top hand out preflop.
3. A continuation of the above. Your postflop aggression is way too low again. You CANNOT for any period of time in my opinion beat Limit Holdem Games without being somewhat aggressive. Your lack of preflop aggression is letting people walk over you post flop and turning you into a calling station. Be the Agressor except when it benefits you not to do so.
4. You're not stealing enough from late position when first to act. There is NO HAND that you should limp in with when first to act in late position, if you play it, raise it.
All in all you have done well to only be down as much as you are. The key to turning that into a profit is to increase your agression on all streets when you are involved in a hand. Have people be looking at you to dictate the pace rather then being a calling station as that just won't bring home the bacon.
Keep posting your hands and I am sure the guys here will continue to give you some good advice on them. Good luck.
Statistics: Posted by piersmajestyk — Sat Aug 20, 2005 7:36 pm
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Since Villain was stupid enough to raise JTo in MP, I'll have to assume he would have called you all the way to the river with his pair of jacks regardless of your raising.
FLOP: Villain bets, you raise, he calls.
TURN: Villain checks, you bet, he calls.
You have a gutshot and flush draw on the turn (although only 9 high there's a chance he doesn't have any spades). I don't see why folding there would be a good idea.
And if I were him and you bet out on the river, I'd call you down. The A just doesn't match up with your play so far. Would you really just be calling the flop and turn bets if you had TPTK with AJ? I don't think so. It just doesn't add up.
About your stats...
I think you're playing too tight for .5/1 games (only 12%? How tight are these tables you're playing at?). But on the other hand, it looks like you're cold-calling too many raises (like here with 99). Even by only playing 12% of your hands, you should be showing more profit.
You are definitely not aggressive enough, especially on the flop. Most people are most aggressive on the flop, somewhat less aggressive on the turn, and somewhat less aggressive on the river. You have the exact opposite! For comparison... my AGFlop is 3.6, AGTurn is 3.1, and AGRiver is 2.7. I'm winning 11BB/100.
Wait.. am I seeing this correctly... you only PF-raised 2.5% of the time? You MUST raise more hands than that! For comparison, I raise 8%.
I highly recommend reading Small Stakes Hold'Em by Miller and Sklansky. If you've already read it, re-read the starting hands advice (from what positions you raise, call, re-raise with hands).
Statistics: Posted by EscapePlan9 — Sat Aug 20, 2005 7:22 pm
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HOLE CARDS
dealt to NWCougar
![[9s]](http://livepokerforum.com/images/smilies/9s.gif "The Nine of Spades")
![[9h]](http://livepokerforum.com/images/smilies/9h.gif "The Nine of Hearts")
EP: folds, EP: folds, MP: folds, Villian: raises $1, NWCougar: calls $1, Button: folds, SB: folds, BB: folds
FLOP
![[7s]](http://livepokerforum.com/images/smilies/7s.gif "The Seven of Spades")
![[5h]](http://livepokerforum.com/images/smilies/5h.gif "The Five of Hearts")
![[Js]](http://livepokerforum.com/images/smilies/Js.gif "The Jack of Spades")
Villian: bets $0.50, NWCougar: calls $0.50
TURN [6s]
Villian: bets $1, NWCougar: calls $1
RIVER [Ac]
Villian: checks, NWCougar: checks
SHOW DOWN
Villian: shows
![[Jh]](http://livepokerforum.com/images/smilies/Jh.gif "The Jack of Hearts")
![[Ts]](http://livepokerforum.com/images/smilies/Ts.gif "The Ten of Spades")
(A Pair of Jacks, Ace high)NWCougar: mucks hand
Villian collected $5.50 from Main pot
Changes (what I think I should have done differently): Reraise on the flop to get more info, Fold the turn, Raise the river scare card.
Now here are my stats:
Amount Won = (54.14), it was about (250.00) at 5k hands
BB/100 = (0.61)
VP$IP = 12.28%
Folded SB to steal = 73.53%
Folded BB to steal = 81.54%
Att. to steal blinds = 5.4%
WTSD = 32.63%
Won $ at SD = 58%
Raised Pre-Flop = 2.51%
Folded river to bet = 40.55%
AF: ----Flop = .97
---------Turn = 1.34
---------River = 1.47
---------Total (pre-flop unchecked) = 1.18
Biggest losing final hands =
---High Card (296.20)
---One Pair (453.69)
Position Stats
Position --- VP$IP --- PFR% --- BB Won/Hand
-- Bn --- 13.07 --- 2.83 --- .04
-- 1 --- 11.67 --- 2.10 --- .05
-- 2 --- 11.38 --- 2.30 --- .04
-- 3 --- 11.86 --- 2.39 --- .05
-- 4 --- 11.47 --- 2.27 --- .08
-- 5--- 13.25 --- 4.12 --- .08
-- 6 --- 11.25 --- 2.47 --- .02
-- 7 --- 10.06 --- 1.4 --- .09
-- BB --- 8.55 --- 2.55 --- (0.25)
-- SB --- 18.72 --- 2.07 --- (0.14)
Statistics: Posted by NWCougar — Sat Aug 20, 2005 6:54 pm
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