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Originally Posted by djdiggydiggy
So, I'm curious why you are complaining about people calling your raises when you price your raises so small. I'm not sure if you understand the spots where you need to just scoop what is out there or are fielding additional callers. Your strategy is kinda stuck in a weird spot, and your actions and viewpoint are quite contradictory.
Your betting makes no sense at all because you are sitting on a 12k stack with the original raiser already putting a bet roughly equal to 10% of your stack in. Your decision not to push in for your three bet is the big mistake here. If he calls off for 12k with 3-7 preflop, that's fine and a terrible beat, but when he calls off with trips 7s against you after you got married to your hand and open shoved the flop, you made the mistake.
I am enjoying the trip report, but your poker fundamentals really need a bit of addressing if you really expect to be more of a winning player. You keep knocking other people's play, but you are giving them some of the opportunities to put those beats on you because of the way you play.
If I shove I'm just not going to get called that often. However if I make it smaller and shove flop I give him a chance to flop a top pair type hand or see a safe flop with his mid-pair and go broke. Saying I made a mistake because he flopped trips is ridiculous. Blinds were 150-300 (with 50 ante) and villain made it 1100. There was one caller and I made it 3400. So at this point there is 3400+1100+1100+150+500=6250 in the pot and its 2300 for him to call. So ignoring the possibility of the other player re raising, he is getting 2.7:1 on a call. Even if he gets my whole stack 100% of the time he outflops me, he's getting an additional 9000:2300 or about 4:1 for a total of 6.7:1 with implied odds.
Now since your fundamentals are so good I'm sure I don't have to remind you that even a smaller pocket pair isn't getting the correct odds to try to flop a set, so there is no way that 73, even suited, is getting the right odds to flop two pair/trips/flush/straight.
Lastly, when did I complain that he called my raise? I said I was laughing at how he could call with 73. I want that call all day.