Cryptos NL$25 6max.

I am dealt 33 UTG+1. I limp and the guy to right limps. BB checks.

FLOP. $0.75. 4 - 2 - 3. Two hearts. BB checks and I check (WTF!? the guy to my right was really agro and just when I was going to bet $0.75 I saw his AF was 6, so...) LP bets $0.5, BB calls and I raise to $3.25. Both call.

TUrn. Jh. MEH. BB checks, I check and LP checks.

River. 4h. BB checks and I bet $30.5 all in. LP has about $27 and BB $10.

When two players calledthat raise i assume at least one has the FD about 90% of the times. When the hit the river I thought it was a very good spot to overbet becase is going broke there like 95% of the times and at least 60% of the times.

How did I play it? I think the check raise on flop is questionable because that board is just too drawy.

What else?

I ussually raise preflop, and the bet the flop. As for played to the river, Its the most EV play to just stick it all in.

To be honest if a competent player makes that over bet push on the river I am going to be folding my flush, and very often, especially if they haven't been making all in bets a lot already... Then again I am a sane player who multi-tables and uses ACEHUD, most of these donkey boys at NL25, especially 6max, are just action junkies and you may get a call from !

Lead out on the flop though, 3 way pot, looks like the kind of board that will have connected to drawing hands, so make them pay.... check raising kinda kives away your hand strength.

Oh, and I hope no one made a straight flush.

Nobody did, yenool. But the guy in LP had 42. Tough.

1.) There's no rule that you have to play poker to build a roll to play the next highest "level." I played $25NL through $100NL with 100+ buy-in's just looking for the best games. I was in college. The money was replacable, but I wanted to keep my money for booze, blow, and bitches, SFobv, so I didn't want to put myself at risk. I just liked playing between my schoolwork and going out. A year an a half ago, I started my business and again, I didn't want to deal with outside risks and I wanted to work on my limit game so I could play a local 30/60 mixed game. I played 5/10 through 20/40 with 1000+ bets just to make as much of the game subconscious as possible.

It's a game. If you're a winning player, play within your means in whatever game you want to play. There's no rule that says if you have $100k, you're not allowed to play $100 games. You can never play for too little money. Have fun, play your best, and don't put more on the table than your resources can handle. If your resources can handle it, but you're not confident that you can feel comfortable with that sort of money, play for less. The game's the game. The players are the variables and people suck everywhere.

2.) In passive games, you should never be almost never be open-limping, IMO. The "they won't fold anyway" or "Whatever they're calling a raise with, they're overlimping and I want to hit my hand before pumping naything in the pot" doesn't fly with me. You'll be surprised how you're hand reading skills improve because you'll know how people react to you in a lot of different situations. I'm not saying that you should be a hi-volume LAG as from my experiences, I've had to change a lot over the last couple of months from the way I played for about 2 years. Be selective, but stay away from being on the call in big-bet poker. From your posts, I see that you know the game too well to be wishy-washy.

3.) Pleeeeeeeeease lead this flop in an unraised pot. Be proactive. Don't be the spoiled child at the table who wants their big pots handed to them. You have to make those pots big when you have big hands. Big hands can lose. Minimize the losses by extracting your value before people change their minds. When the fire finally gets lit under your ass, they fold or trump enough to leave a significant amount of money on the table.

Deep stacked, check/raising flops is too much of an action-killer. Leading/3-betting puts more in the middle than check/raising. You see it all the time at the tables and on this forum. Payoff wizards pay you off. Good players with hands that'll give you action'll give you action. When shit happens, it happens. That's poker.

4.) As played, turn and river are perfect.

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