Join Date: Jul 2019
Posts: 1
Hi all,
This is my first post so please lmk anything I should fix.
1/3 - Caribbean Poker Saturday afternoon - My first real hand I played, 9 handed, bought in for $300
Preflop:
utg limps, utg+1 raises to 17 (stack ~250), I call with pocket 7s in the cutoff, utg calls
Flop: (pot size is ~54)
5 6 Q rainbow
utg+1 bets 22
I call, utg folds
(This is a flop preflop raiser would almost always bet on since it's so dry, so I think it's fine to call with 2nd pair and some backdoor equity)
Turn: (pot is ~94)
7
utg+1 bets 33
I raised to 100, and he folds. turns over AQ!
This is something I don't really understand. I've only recently started playing live poker in casinos, but everyone seems to play super tight. I don't see 3 bets very often at all and when people raise they almost always have the nuts. When I played on a poker app with some friends, or if I played live home games with other friends, everyone seemed to call very loose.
Should I be adapting to people being tight by playing more loose and bluffing more? But this goes against a lot of online advice I heard about beating the low stakes 1/3 games. Was my choice to raise correct? Did I raise too much? I don't think it's that this guy is just super tight because he definitely did a lot of loose plays later in the game.
Just a newb trying to undersand.