My girlfriend is learning how to play poker. She's reading Hilgers book and playing microlimits at Doyles Room (and grinding put a bonus for me a cent at a time!).

She's new to the table and has no reads (PA hud doesn't work here either). I suck at limit so I was hoping some of the resident limit pros would show some mercy and give some feedback.

[Aug 1 19:45:24] : Heroine has
[Aug 1 19:45:27] : critah folded.
[Aug 1 19:45:29] : ico303 folded.
[Aug 1 19:45:32] : litedog6 called <.05
[Aug 1 19:45:34] : snoopydog called <.05
[Aug 1 19:45:36] : fergusq called <.05
[Aug 1 19:45:39] : Heroine called <.05 and raised <.05
[Aug 1 19:45:43] : sb22 folded.
[Aug 1 19:45:43] : lisa37ohio folded.
[Aug 1 19:45:43] : mathmatiks called <.05 and raised <.05
[Aug 1 19:45:49] : litedog6 folded.
[Aug 1 19:45:53] : snoopydog called <.10
[Aug 1 19:45:55] : fergusq called <.10
[Aug 1 19:45:57] : Heroine called <.05
[Aug 1 19:45:57] : Dealing flop.
[Aug 1 19:45:57] : Board cards
[Aug 1 19:46:01] : mathmatiks bet <.05
[Aug 1 19:46:03] : snoopydog called <.05
[Aug 1 19:46:04] : fergusq called <.05
[Aug 1 19:46:10] : Heroine called <.05 and raised <.05
[Aug 1 19:46:13] : mathmatiks called <.05 and raised <.05
[Aug 1 19:46:17] : snoopydog called <.10
[Aug 1 19:46:19] : fergusq called <.10
[Aug 1 19:46:21] : Heroine called <.05
[Aug 1 19:46:21] : Dealing turn.
[Aug 1 19:46:21] : Board cards
[Aug 1 19:46:23] : mathmatiks bet <.10
[Aug 1 19:46:34] : snoopydog called <.10
[Aug 1 19:46:34] : fergusq called <.10
[Aug 1 19:46:37] : Heroine folded.

Pa Hud works there now... check their beta's.

Cap PF, especially at these limits.

Cap Flop, especially at these limits.

I think we are now (on the turn) getting odds to call this down. An non heart Jack or another K may win this for us, and the pot is huge, so I think folding is a mistake here. Will I ever Blame anybody for folding here? No, but I think it is a mistake.

Thanks for the tip about PA Hud.


Here's three reasons why more people should reply to this:

1. My girlfriend is a nurse. She saves peoples lives, helping her develop her game is definetely positive karma, right?

2. She's very good to me, which means that I'm in a good mood most of the time which reduces the suffering of people who I interact with (that's you!). It's still not pleasant most of the time but a lot less bad than it could be.

3. I couldn't figure out a single hand that would three-bet OOP preflop that she could beat on the turn. AA, KK, QQ, AK with , even KQ beats her. However, the guy who's betting (mathmatiks) showed . He also bet the blank river, got called, and *won*. So on a board with possible straight, flush and three face cards, top pair no kicker took the pot after all that action.