1/3, Friday afternoon, 9-handed
A mix of players, but none have shown any technical expertise.

Villain A (30yo Hispanic female, 20/5, $240) limps UTG.
- She has not got out of line so far in about 1 hour of play.
Villain B (40yo white male, 40/20, $600) limps in MP.
Hero ($300) raises to $20 with KQss on button
Only Villain A calls.

Flop ($47): Q-5-4hh

Villain A checks, Hero bets $30, Villain check-raises to $80

What do you do?

I am bet/folding here as a default, wich is the bread and butter of any good LLSNL player. Obviously deviating from this default when/if my reads on villain and the table dictates it.

I agree, but I have totally lost confidence, being on an extended downswing (6BBs) that I cannot seem to play out of, lasting 3 months. I am "winning" sessions when I do the all-in equity math but I am continuing to get bad beats when I get it in with the money - in consecutive instances.

I understand,its very hard going through rough stretches. Just keep up with the basics as good as you can until confidence starts rising again. It will turn around,even though it seems like it never will when you are in the midst of it.

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Well, doomsday is still a long way off, and one should probably continue paying the rake.

But it certainly feels it will come eventually (and well before old age gets me).

Well if she’s semi-bluffing here, I reckon she’s demonstrating some “technical expertise “.

You can fold now or call and jam all brick turns if she checks turn. Have you made any big folds so far in this session?

There are fish that you are beating here but not enough in general to call against an unknown opponent.

Figuring out that sort of information is one of the reasons to pay attention to hands you are not in. Let somebody else pay to find out.

If the problem is that villains are consistently turning up with better hands then you thought the problem might be your giving them too wide a range. If your doing the math enough to know it's just bad luck then you just have to live through it. Randomization will equalize eventually.

I'm either/or preflop. Our raise managed to get this HU in position, so good. But it also created an SPR of about 4.5 where we should probably feel committed with TP, and yet I feel very very very uncomfortable with a KQ TP due to domination issues (hence why overlimping is fine, imo).

The flop is why preflop is borderline. Us having AQ and them possibly having worse KQ that they can easily think is good and can be overplayed would make this a semi-comfortable stack off (although facing a check/raise from a non out-of-line player is obviously always uncomfortable). But us having KQ and thus requiring them to be going nutso with just KJ is just that much more meh. It's a tough spot but perhaps one where we can ignore the small SPR and make a hero fold.

ETA: The other thing to consider is that it's possible we should just be PSBing this flop to commit anyways, and kinda be thankful that perhaps she has let us off the hook facing the smaller bet. I mean, if she just calls the flop bet and we bet just 70% PSB on the turn, that'll leave us with just < 1/2 PSB for the river (and by then the board will likely be getting more and more stoopider), so I'm not really sure if I understand our whole plan.

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