I try to analyze a hand a played recently and pinpoint my biggest mistakes. Any thoughts on this are highly appreciated.



the image does not show that the last player had Q7 of clubs, so the villains ended up splitting the pot.

I reckon a big mistake was not raising pre flop.

I ran the hand thru the solver using the ranges from GTO wizard (HJ vs BTN) hero is BTN and found this results, added some notes to the play by play. Please let me know if I'm missing something or are mistaken on some of the conclusions

https://imgur.com/a/rxN2qrq

Thanks in advance

> I reckon a big mistake was not raising pre flop.

I think actually it's fine ! We never open limp, but limping behind with speculative hand like this one is OK. I would raise only if nobody agressive is in the blind + the limpers are prone to limp/fold. Otherwise with their tendency to limp/call Ax hand, you might be in trouble postflop with your kicker 3. A3s makes straights and nut flushes, OK hand to see a cheap flop.

The turn is a really unfortunate card, you go from very strong hand on the flop to mediocre straight on the turn. Anyone with an A splits with you, anyone with a 6 has you drawing dead. I think betting again is OK-ish since they can call you with flush draws, double pairs, even pairs (who knows...), but I'm not excited anymore with the situation.

On the river you play the board, if you had 2 bananas instead of 2 cards it would be the same. Continuing to put money into the pot is like setting it on fire.

Please take this comment with a grain of salt, as playing $2NL 9Max - just trying to improve by review other people's hands. My comments likely terrible :P


Pre-flop: Would lean towards raising here, but don't hate the limp behind. With the raise I would be more comfortable in my action on the flop a higher % of the time, whereas if this kind of hit AXX or 236 I would struggle to know if to call a bet etc.

Flop: Would play the same

Turn: I would actually size my bet higher here, and fold to a raise. Feel like 4BB into 16.5BB pot isn't going to do anything, any random draws will be massively priced in - 7x cc etc

River: Personally I don't hate the initial call, think at this level that could be done to try and get the full pot when playing the board, however the C/R for me massive flag they have something good and I would fold there.


Did not see him having T7o after calling the flop.

Really like that solver! Very cool and useful.

Best of luck with the grind!

Thank you for the advise, why do you recon the solver advises to call 90% of the time then?

What solver are you looking at?

Any solves will be 1 player vs 1 player... as you can see in the hand history there was multiple limping and many players to the flop. Any solve is not going to be relevant here.

Idd, I am using desktop postflop. I had to make some compromises on the inputs to be able to run it, unsure as to how meaningful the result is, On my post there is a link to imgur which has the results of the solver, if you could take a quick look at those and tell me if you think the results are worth anything. I actually made this post hoping i would get some feedback on my solver results as any improvement on my ability to use solvers would help me in the long run

Using ranges taken from GTO wizard HJ vs BTN, bet sizes of 50% and 150%.

I'd raise preflop to about $0.10. Limping isn't terrible, but raising is better imo.

Flop looks good

Turn card is not good for you. Your goal should be to see a cheap showdown if possible, perhaps you can plan to extract a bit of value on the river if everyone checks. I would not bet turn. I would rather bet turn with 6x for value, flush draws and 87s as a bluff.

River, CO's bet is so small I guess you can call and probably expect to chop a decent amount, once you see that raise though you are probably beat since so many players saw the flop and it's somewhat rare for opponents to bluff at chopped pots.

The advice you gave resonates with me, everything makes sense. Thanks!