I have a question about how I played these hands and the main question if the size of my betting is correct

History: Winstar 1-2

Hero: 25 year old young guy. About a hour in only have played one hand where I raised 15 and got called by two then C-bet to two folds.

V1: Late 30s Asian, seemed tight. Folded a few hands to the villain to the left of him whenever V1 showed weakness.

V2: Late 30s, seen him limp a lot. Only big hand; I have seen him play is he bet 3 bullets to a A 10 J J K board and showed A5 to take the pot.

V3: Biggest stack at the table. Loose passive calling station. Seemed to know some of the regs at the table.

1st hand:

V1 raises 12 UTG, V2, and V3 call. I call with 5s5d out of the cutoff.

Flop: 5cQc7h

V1 bets out 15, both V2 and V3 call. I raise to 70.

Is this too much or too less or do you hate the raise?

2nd hand:
V1 bets utg 15, both V2 and V3 call, Hero looks down at KsKd. I raise to 60. Folds to V2 who raises All-In.

Was my 3-bet okay here or would you suggest more or less?



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Hand 1,

Bigger flop.

$90 to go, maybe bigger depending on stacks, maybe slightly less as well.

Hand 2,

Bigger 3b.

$70 seems good.

My fault. I forgot to add all Villains cover hero. Hero has 100 BB in the first hand and 150 BB in the second.

1st is a bit small. 12*4+15*3=93, you bet 70 into that, but it's only 55 for the first caller, getting almost 2:1 (55:163) so fd is fine to call, plus each additional caller gets better equity. I'd make it somewhere between 100-125.

2nd, nh, call that ship and instashow your hand

Hand 1: Multiway the board is not dry enough to slow play hand. $70 isn't quite enough when $15 gets 2 calls but $90-$100 looks good. With only $200 in your stack sometimes just shove and try to represent a big draw.

Hand 2: $60 is fine, you might go a bit bigger if you know villains are sticky but you don't need to. When V2 ships call. If V1 shipped you might have to think about it but V2 you have to call. I occasionally see slow played AA in this situation but it's too rare to worry about.

I think your sizing for the most part is OK. Sure you could go a little bigger in the first hand but WE. If I was at the table with you I'd be more concerned about your image. If you had only played 1 hand in the last hour, I would have taken notice. I would have to be at the tip top of my range to continue in a hand with you making it hard for you to realize your equity when you enter a pot.

What hand did you raise with in that 1st hour and c-bet that the other 2 villains folded?

But I digress. I forgot most 1-2 villains don't pay attention.

Both hands played well.

H1: We don't want to price them out. They have %18 chance to improve on there draws. Good job getting value. Sizing sets up trivial shove on turn. Well played.

H2: very well played. Snap call. Gonna see AA alot.



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Looks fine to me. You don't want to blow people out of pots when you have the goods.

Sizing seems fine in both spots. In hand 1 you don't want to fold out the flush draws, just make it expensive for them to call. Most importantly you want to set up a turn shove. Stack to pot ratio is an important number to keep in mind in these post flop sizing spots.

When we are facing the $15 flop bet the pot has approx. $90 in it and we have $190 in our stack. If you make it $70 and get called in one spot the pot now has $230 in it and we have $120 left behind, which is a perfect amount to turn shove.

Hand 1: OTF, I want to raise enough so that if I get only one caller, I have correct pot odds to call an all-in on the Turn if he makes his hand.

To estimate that amount at the table, I work with what I'll have left after I bet & try to use even numbers. So I start with $88, leaving me $100. I'll then need $350 in the pot after 1 caller & his shove OTT to break even.

$176 + 93 + 100 = $369 - $7 rake & 1 tip = $361.

So, I got lucky & the 1st amount [$88] was right on point.

The V with a flush draw has to call $73 more OTF * 4 = $298, so he gets the right price to call OTF, but misses 80% of the time & when he makes it OTT, I boat up 22.7% of the time.

If you believe your V will assume you'll be pot committed after raising the Flop & can count on the money you have behind as implied odds, you can even raise more, but $88 is the minimum.

Hand 2: I Think $60 is fine vs most Vs & I'm calling the all-in. You don't run into A's vs. Ks often & I continue to be amazed at what 1/2 players will go all-in with. It's like they don't want to bother with having to go to the cashier cage before leaving.