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Originally Posted by DalTXColtsFan
This hand is more of a "help me with a mental block" hand than a "did I play the hand correctly?' hand.
Villain in this hand seems like an LP, but a less incompetent one than usual - he coldcalls too much preflop but doesn't seem to make ridiculous plays postflop. He's HJ and I'm BTN in this hand.
4 limpers including HJ. I'm on the BTN with QTo. Too weak to raise, too strong to fold so I call. SB completes, BB checks.
7 players, 7sb. Flop is Q84r. UTG bets, 2 callers and I raise. Blinds fold, UTG and callers call. My plan, obviously, is to get to showdown as cheaply as possible if my hand doesn't improve. If my hand doesn't improve taking the free card on the turn is a no-brainer, and I'm probably calling one bet on the river especially if I close the action.
4 players, 7BB, turn is T putting four suits on the board. Check, check, villain bets and I raise. Checkers fold, villain looks at me astonished and says, "What the hell are you raising???? What the hell do you have?????" I just smile and he calls.
2 players, 11BB, river is a K. Villain looks at me and says, "all right, I check!"
This is an absolute, total, no-brainer bet-call. There are SO many worse hands to get value from here, but for some reason the K spooked me. I checked behind. This is a mental block, I've studied the game and I know it's very very hard for the villain to have me beat and there are a LOT of worse hands he'll call with to get value from in that huge pot. The villain even gave me a tell - yes, it could have been a reverse tell (maybe that's what spooked me) but at 4/8 tables villains are usually honest and transparent with their emotions.
Maybe I should have posted this in the psychology forum - why in the world am I still getting spooked in such easy, inoccuous spots???
Preflop is debatable. This hand is even worse value at these stakes due to rake and more strong hands in limper ranges.
Flop, your plan should be to get value. Why do you play this hand preflop if you aren't going to bet it down on a clean runout? Yes, most likely cards will come that are dangerous, but you should be betting the river on running 3's for example.
I'm actually a little nervous when a low stakes villain starts talking and dark checking. That could mean some surprisingly strong hands. One hand it definitely doesn't mean is J9. So I'd bet this river. It doesn't really improve anything i'd expect a live 4/8 drooler to have except like KQ.
Advice to you DTXCF: post hands without interstitial thoughts. Your concerns about game flow / live reads / etc are just confounding variables if anything. And if you're so easily thrown at the table, I may recommend wearing headphones while in a hand.