Alright everyone here are a few hands i played of 1/2 the other night. Little backstory, ive recently starting taking my game more seriously (tracking stats, "studying", etc..) and just had a pretty rough session. Would love some criticism / feedback on a few hands.

Hand 1: 1/2, 250eff and vil covers.

Couple limps around table before Vil 1 in SB makes it 15, we 3b from the BB to 40 with KK. he calls.

Only been at the table for about half hour but so far villain has been driving the action steadily. VERY actiony. has also asked the floor about the 2/5 table. take is as you may.

FLOP: 9 7 3, 2 diamonds

OPP checks and we CBet $35. Decided on a slightly smaller size to keep alot of his hands in. However, he raises to 85.

What would you guys do? Will post the rest of the hand after a few replies.

All in. Bigger pre and I guess it kinda matters if you have the k of diamonds but ehh

Be careful of labeling/judging villains after only half hour of play. This isn't long enough to get accurate impression.

Yeah, slightly bigger pre to 45. This seems nitpicky but your raise to 25 more gives him ~10:1 set mining odds vs ~8:1 (both bad odds for him to set mine tho).

Flop: We're committed to the hand here. With SPR heads up of less than 3 tank and announce allin. If he got lucky then that's poker....

Pretty straight forward, allin. I would bet a bit higher on the flop, but if you wanted to induce it, you got it and now you have to go with this hand.

So a standard 3 bet size here would be a tad bigger but this is fine. I would cbet a little more but you definitely don’t have to bomb it. At this stack depth and being OOP I would jam. We aren’t getting away from our hand so no real benefit to flatting, there is some small chance he gets away from TT/JJ but that might have happened anyway if we flat.

Thanks for the replies everyone. I did in fact jam and he tank folded 10s. Just wanted to make sure i didnt overplay the hand.

Him folding 10s is a good reason to think of ranges instead of your exact hand. And exactly why we need to incorporate some semi bluffs here as well.

I don’t think most people are folding 10’s here at this stack depth.

If you have the kd you can slowplay. If not, all in.

This is why you should be sizing your bets so that he should have had no money left after his flop raise.

Imagine if you did this instead:

Preflop, you raise to 50 instead of 40. If he calls you, the pot is 100ish and you have 200 left to bet.

Now on the flop, let's say you bet 65. If he raises you at this point, he'd probably just go all in. And if he calls you, then the pot would be 230ish with 135 left to bet for the turn, and you can go all in then.

Even with your $40 preflop sizing, the pot is around $80 with 210 left to bet. You can still go 65/145, and your flop sizing means that his raise would have been all in.

Basically your bet sizing allowed your opponent to save some money.

+1 to a larger 3b size