your NLH game looks like it needs some work.

First of all, and this is recurring in the hands you posted. Raise more PF. General rule, is 4x the big blind +1bb for each limper. Additionally, I add an extra 1bb if I'm raising out of the blinds. Therefore, on the AA hand you should raise to $1.40 instead of .80.

THe AKs hand is a just call on the turn. You have almost no fold equity on your push and your Ace high is rarely the best made hand. Therefore, you should just call the min-raise. And check fold if you miss and open push on the river if you hit the flush, straight, Ace or King.

On the KK hand you should never check-fold the turn. Its not that likely that the villain hit the Ace. I like how you played that hand.

Your AJ hand I really don't like raising that hand from the blind especially FR. If you're going to rasie it like Spank said you need to raise bigger PF. But AJ OOP is a trouble hand, I really wou;dn't mid a check PF. Take a stab at the flop if one player shoves and another calls I'm done with the hand there. This is one of those marginal spots I mentioned to you about trying to avoid.

That flop could hit a lot of limp hands and again most important here is you're OOP. hands like AJ AT KQ KJ look nice but playing them OOP is tricky. Remember it's not tournament poker where you only get dealt "x" amount of good hands in a short period of time and need to push them when you get them.

You're raising what might very well be the best hand PF, however NL is a post flop game. So you should ask yourself if this is a hand you're willing to play when you're first to act with players behind you. If you want to play it HU you need to get a bigger rasie in to do so, which in turn requires you to ask the question. Do I want to play a potentially big pot OOP?

Spank covered a lot of other good points, although with the KK hand with the A on the turn I'm not sure. A lot of micro stakes players will play any A and take them to the river.

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I think I didn't explain well enough that I agree . I don't think the check fold is good either. I like something like a 1/2 pot bet there since there's no big draws out and agree 100% about the rest of your comment.

Gotcha.

Things to work on for the remainder of the month:

Pre-flop bet sizing. 4x+1x per limper (5x from the blinds).

My follow up question would be: what the hell do I do if I have something semi-marginal like 99 or AQ in the co or lp and there are 6 limpers to me? Do I make it 10x and hope that a CB takes it down if I whiff? limp along with them and play for two pair/set value?

Play with AX (at this point I am only playing AK-AJ) out of position, particularly against multiple opponents.

Thank you, and thanks for the sweat. What MVP is so eloquently referring to is this:


Which really gave a bump to an otherwise short (and iffy) poker weekend.

Came to the ft short, played tight till we got down to 5, had both big stacks on my right and just stayed aggressive.

Very nice bump to the roll.

Roll = $1,035

Congrats.