Hi everyone,

This is my first time posting so not sure if I'm doing this correctly but I'll try my best. I play at my local cardroom 3-5 days a week during the college semester. 1/3 is the only game that runs so there is a mix of good and bad players. There is usually a straddle on and the game is uncapped so it plays like a 2/5 game.

Anyways, I wanted to post all the hands I was in involved in at my last session I would love to get some feedback and discuss the hands with anyone interested, even if you disagree with my play. Without further ado..

Started w $200, 9 handed. Relatively deep stacks at table to start.

2nd hand in cutoff w 810h. Limped pot pre. QK6 flop two hearts.
Aggro reg to immediate right bets $16. I'm only caller. Blank offsuit turn. He bets $20 has me covered. I call in position. Turn is another offsuit king. He checks to me. I bet $35. He calls flips over a counterfeited Q6 I top off for another $100 after losing $70 that hand

I have pocket dueces in the big. Unknown villain in hijack makes it $8. I defend. Flop comes 10c10s7h. I check it over to him he bets $11 I call. Turn is Qs. I check he bets $16 I fold. Was hoping he gave up so I can pick off a river bluff potentially. Maybe just fold flop.

I have KcQs on the cutoff. I make it $10 get 3 callers. Flop comes K10x two spades. I bet $15 folds around

I have 99s in the low Jack. UTG+1 makes it $12. Both players to my right call. I call. Two other players call lol. Button makes it $100. Folds to me. I fold. Rec player shoves unknown aggro 3-better calls. Rec player has KJ and wins with a rivered King against A high. I would've flopped a set but think I made the right fold. I had $200.

I have A4d in hijack. Mid-position raises to $18, mid position calls. On to me. I folded since I'm only 10x deep effective. My SPR wouldn't have been high enough and spewey aggro player in blinds could have re-popped it. Not sure if I made the right fold

I have QQ in the low Jack. Solid reg raises to $26 in the small blind (straddled pot) It folded to me. I made it $80 leaving me around $200. It folds to Todd who shoves and has me covered. I called. He had AK off. I flopped top set but turn was a J making me sweat a 10. I held though.

Two hands later. I have AQ of spades in mid position. I make it 20 get two callers. One is aggro spewy player who is stuck like $400. Another is a dude who likes to bluff. Flop totally misses me. I check. Second guy check. Guy on button bets $23. I fold. A flopped pair of 8s wins it after some further action

I had AQo in the low Jack. Straddled pot. Todd calls the $6. Get 2 more callers. Guy to my right (Pete) makes it $36. I actually elect to let it go. I did this because if I call and someone behind be re-raises I dont want to risk my $400. Not sure about this spot. He ended up getting 2 callers and the flop came 10dJh3s. Todd checks Pete bets $75. Button calls Todd ships for $230. Pete folds other guy folds.

I had QQs in the low Jack. Straddled pot-two people called the straddle. I made it $26. Got 2 callers. J94 flop rainbow. I bet $45, aggro spewy guy called. Turn was Ad. I checked it over to him. He bet $85 leaving $35 behind. I thought it over and jammed because I had seen him not have it over and over again. He was stuck well over $500 I believe and was tilting. He folded lol.

I had K8s on the button. I call a raise to $18 from the spewy aggro player who is now taking loans from players at the table. 3 ways to a flop. Flop comes 8h7c6h rainbow. I bet $20 both players call. Turn is another 6. It checks around. River is a 5 putting 4 to a straight out there. No available flushes. Front door flush missed. It checks to the spewy aggro player on button who bets $85 into $115. Since his range is so bluff heavy here I elect to bluff catch and make the call here, putting him on air or maybe missed hearts a large portion of the time. He sighs and said he hadn't looked at his cards and shows Jack high. We scoop a nice one.

I had QQs 4 handed on the button. the cutoff, makes it $22. He has about $450~- I have $800 or so. I elect to just flat in position. I would normally 3-bet but to be completely honest, even though I knew I would be considerably ahead of his calling range and ahead of even his 4-betting range, I didn't want to get stacks in or be committed preflop. This us probably flawed logic but anyways. I flat and spewey aggro player flats from the small. 3 ways to a flop which comes pretty favorable. Q66rainbow. he bets $40 I call. Spewy aggro players bows out. Turn is 8s putting backdoor spades out there which is somewhat irrelevant. He bets $60 I call. He has about $350 left. River is an offsuit 5. He bets $110. I Hollywood for a little bit, try to contain my excitement with the second nuts and put him all in. He doesn't snap so Im obviously begging for a call now. I He tanks for 3 or so minutes. I don't say anything and try to remain stoic. He says how he hasn't seen me bluff which is almost entirely true (I attempted to bluff him earlier in the night). He says he thinks I have AA or KK which means he probably has AQ- he implied that he was behind of AA and KK. Anyways, he tosses in the call and we scoop a really nice one. The game ended shortly after when spewy aggro player finally got stacked for good. Finished up about $1k.

Would love to hear your thoughts on how I played and get feedback on the hands. Thanks!

Hand 1: What was pot size when you called? This is probably a fold on flop depending on # villains.

Hand 2: fold to flop bet OOP

Hand 3: standard/fine

Others: Just advice on posting hands, Don't post a slew of hands all at once, it's just too much to answer/comment on without everyone getting lost over each others comments. Shoot for posting 1 hand in depth at a time. If you have multiple hands you're wondering about just write them down and post them later 1 at a time. Good Luck Sir!

Read thru all the hands/wow this looks like a great game ha

Some quick notes:

- next time post stack sizes on each street so we can see what kind of odds you are getting

- next time post stack size at start of each hand; stack size is probably the most important thing regarding any decision

- next time post HHs in individual threads; you're unlikely to get too many responses to a wall of HHs (I'm bored at work, so...)

- H1 (T8hh): Depending on pot size and how many there are to react after us, flop call is dicey but probably ok. Again would like to know pot size on turn but I'm guessing we're getting at least 3:1 so it's probably okish in position. Our line doesn't make a lotta sense so bluffing when the draws bust ain't a good line (as most people are in check/call mode in this spot); bluff when a scare card comes in that you can credibly rep, not when it doesn't.

- H2 (22): Absolutely remove the word/concept "defend" from your strategy. Preflop really depends on how good a player HJ is because in general calling raises HU OOP isn't going to be profitable; really the only thing we have going for us is it's an extremely cheap price. Flop is either/or depending on opponent and I also fold the turn (but long term we're spewing money calling raises HU OOP and then calling flop bets OOP to give up on the turn).

- H3 (KQo): I don't like going 4ways with this hand in a raised pot. I'd either overlimp or raise an amount that might have a chance at thinning the field ($10 may as well be a limp at any 1/3 NL table I've played at). I'm cool with the smallish cbet just hoping to take it down (I might bet a bit more on this drawy board). Whole hand is also dependent on stack size (the smaller we are the more we can raise largish and cbet largish to commit).

- H4 (99): I'm fine with it. Some will advocate a 3bet preflop.

- H5 (A4s): I also fold due to not multiway enough, too little immediate odds / IO, the chance of being repopped, and not necessarily going to end up in position.

- H6 (QQ): I play the same way. I'll be a high variance spot as against solid players their continuing range to the 3bet (especially if we have a nitty image) is AA/KK/AK, but I don't think there is much else we can do this short and with significant dead money in the pot.

- H7 (AQs): Next time don't post results as it will bias answers, and again stack sizes are imperative. I mostly limp/evaluate Axs (even the big ones) OOP but that's me. I think it's fine to check/fold 3ways OOP.

- H8 (AQ): Don't post names. I'm fine with folding AQo to a big raise preflop especially if the raiser is a tightish ABC player.

- H9 (QQ): Stack sizes are imperative and should mostly define your raise size unless you are super deep. Effective stack sizes also should play into your postflop sizing and whether you are committed. If everyone is pretty short as the guy we got to bluff, then we should likely be betting larger on the flop to setup a turn shove, but our way did get him to bluff off chips (but checking to give free cards when committed is also meh).

- H10 (K8s): You should be aware if people have looked at their cards. I fold preflop if I think people have looked at their cards. On this drawy board I probably lean towards betting the turn as the last money I put in the pot (perhaps bluffcatching blank rivers), although I don't hate checking to bluffcatch.

- H11 (QQ): I'm actually cool with flatting preflop this deep and in position and no significant dead money in the pot and the fact a flat will often get this HU anyways. However, if we know we're ahead of his continuing range and even 4betting range (which makes him a maniac, imo), then I'd rather 3bet large to play for stacks; against anyone else, a flat is fine, imo. I'm fine with flatting flop. I probably minraise the turn just to get more chips in (unlikely he'll fold a draw) and to make it easier to play for stacks on the river. River play is obvious.

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I just suggest you learn as much as you can about short stack strategy. An uncapped game the blinds almost don't matter and I assume the stacks will always be large.

Short stacked in an uncapped game get 99 in pre. 88+ AJo+ pile it pre

Thank you for all the feedback and your time gentleman. Didn't know I wasn't supposed to post all the hands at once.. oops

@crsseyed- It is a great game! Maincon to being able to play deepstacked in an action game with recreational players is that it attracts some sharks as well. There is no bigger game so they hop in to the same one. Also, the swings are bigger.

@gobbledygeek- Thanks for all of the insight! Must have taken you forever..
About HH1 I'm not sure if my logic is right but his hand looked a lot like a missed draw/ weak queen and the King should be hitting my continuation range pretty hard. I have a lot of Kx when I check/call flop and turn I think because raising (flop especially) I feel would enable my opp to play well (fold weaker hands, continue w stronger ones.) I think if I overbet the pot for example it works a very large percentage of the time but I made the price way too good for him to fold since the draws missed.

@donkatruck- Thanks- working on it. Also, need to work on deepstack play for the same reason I think.

@rileymadison2345- I think I have a big edge on the game so I try to avoid high variance plays but I def agree with you from a GTO perspective

Treat flop bets in very multiway limped pots with respect, imo. Treat double barrels with even more respect (even though I realize by the turn we're HU, but still). Not nearly as many as draw-barrelling opponents as you think in this spot. Also not in love with our overbet idea as (a) it has to work far more often to be profitable and (b) there's too good a chance he plays Kx like this (if I had been betting Kx this is how I'd play the river because it looks like my opponent is on a busted draw and I'm checking to induce on this "scary" card).

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@gobbledygeek- You're right. Appreciate the thoughts.