Hero: Sat down an hour ago and have around 200. Haven’t been involved at all yet which may be giving off the impression of being tight.

Villain 1: Heavyset guy with a beard. Sitting with around a 700 so he’s beating the game at the moment. Seems like he plays often enough to know some players I remember are regulars in the room.

1-2 NLHE 300 Max:

A couple of limps in front of me including villain and I open in MP+2 for 15. HJ calls the 15 and everyone else folds. Pot ($37) Flop comes:

Kd5s6c

Villain checks, I bet 20 and Villain calls. Pot (77) The turn is:

Kd5s6c9c

Villain checks again and I bet 50. Villain check raises to 150. Hero says aloud “I think you have X, but how many outs do I have?” (already knowing the answer)

Hero?


Been away for a while. I want to make it clear that I am looking for advice on how to mentally change my decision making at the table. I can do math just fine, but thats not getting in my way as much as letting the moment get on top of me. If I was watching myself play I think I’d have an easier time making the decision than if I was involved in the hand. Just cant get my brain to separate from the moment.








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Verbally saying what you think opponent has at the table is generally not a good idea, unless you are trying to get a reaction.

In this kind of spot you have to learn to immediately focus on the number of bluffs villain will have here, not which made hand you are losing to (in this spot we can fold if the bottom of his range is 2p)

This only becomes a somewhat hard decision if villain can 'accidentally bluff' with a worse k thinking it is good, or is turning various 1p & gutshot straightdraw into bluffs (along with something like 43)

As played, seems like a standardish fold given description of villain as a (good?) reg, turn sizing also seems too large (checking isn't a bad option either)

"I am looking for advice on how to mentally change my decision making at the table."

Might get some interesting replies in the Psychology forum under General Poker Strategy.

I probably check back the turn when the most obvious draw gets there. This is also a scary board for him with any pair lower than a K and we're more likely to get value from weaker pairs and bluffs on the river.

As played, with no other reads, fold. It looks like 2-pair+. We've done a credible job of representing exactly the hand we have yet he's still doing this.

If we'd started the hand with 120 or less we would happily commit on this turn.

Stop giving speeches; check back turn; as played, easy fold.

Fold turn as played. Check turn as played. Bet flop is fine.

When you say you're letting the moment get on top of you, what does that mean? I get that you're not processing the decision the way you want to, but in what way is that happening?