I need a good read to call, as folding is usually going to be the correct play here.

My reason: I had a very strong feeling that UTG player had either a draw or a lower pair than mine such as JJ or QQ. I say this because his shown down cards were all face cards.

UTG +1 was the more tricky player and his loose range hit the flop hard! (and thats what I honestly thought) I felt so strongly that he has exactly 9 10 and possibly a set.

But I kept telling myself these guys have to have some sort of draw or higher pair. And again! my mind was blurry due to playing for some amount of hours and just wasnt thinking things clearly.

With all that being said and over a long 2 minutes I was contemplating and I decided to make the call.

Turn was 3 10

UTG +1 player quickly turns over 9-10o for boat
UTG flashes JJ
And I muck my AA

This is an obvious fold here. Calling here would be turrrrribble. Don’t go losing a big pot just because you made a bet sizing mistake pre. This flop smashes the original callers range.

Pre: Way too small.
Flop: You made your small pot multiway. I would check back.

When action comes back to you this is a turbo fold. You probably have UTG beat with his JJ-QQ type hands, but UTG+1 is bluffing about never here.

As I stated in post #21 T9. Getting married to an over-pair, when you have a solid read, will remain a weak link in one's game for an unnecessary length of time unless we can develop the discipline to fold.

I remember a hand from a few years back: I have AA & on the turn, everyone had folded to my bet except this guy in his early 70s who was OOP. The turn paired the 4 of the flop that had a flush draw.

He gave the most blatantly obvious tell from a Rec: he acted unhappy that the 4 came, and then he checks. According to my notes, I had played with him for 3 hrs & he did not have the habit of giving off this visual tell. He doesn't have much left, maybe $125 or so & I decide he really didn't like the 4 & was drawing to the flush.

So.....I bet $65 so that I charge him for the draw & now he gives off the confirming tell: "Well, I guess this is my going home hand! I'm all-in."

I was so furious at myself for discarding the obvious visual tell, that I compounded it by ignoring the verbal tell, didn't spike an ace otr & he scoops.

That hand is in my novella of horribly played hands that I review from time to time. I had all the knowledge necessary to save myself $125 & threw it in the trash.

Im with you man. Discipline has to do with the mental game as well and thats what im working on. This hand was really a lesson to be learned and I was blind to the obvious assesment I was giving my opponent. An easy fold if I was thinking things much more clearer.

Easy fold. This is not a spot to stack-off for $250+ as your hand is face-up and 3-bet was so small that all sets and straights are in his range. Even if he’s doing this with JJ-KK which I highly doubt, that’s only 18 combos against 15 combos of sets, 78s and 9Ts. And honestly, JJ-KK combos should be highly discounted given you 3-bet pre so they’d be worried about your uncapped range.