Originally Posted by gobbledygeek
Hand1: Super easy overlimp preflop, especially since our raise didn't thin the field at all, which means all we're doing is setmining anyways (which we're now doing for a quite expensive $10 instead of a very cheap $2, plus we also gave donks a chance to fold hands they could have stacked off on had we let them see a flop and we hit). Putting any money into the pot postflop on this board in a 5way pot is lighting it on fire; check/fold every street.
Hand2: Super easy fold preflop. Our hand is crap and plays horribly multiway plus we're in bad position, plus it looks like we're shortstacked. With a bet and a call on the turn, this is a super easy fold; at the very least one of these guys has a better K, if not an A, if not a flush. Lol at your river read; again, super easy fold. This is an extremely poorly played hand.
Hand3: I'd normally say top up pre preflop if you're a good player (which you're not). I'd raise more preflop so that I could shove pretty much all flops (perhaps A high very multiway flops would be an exception). As played, with only just slightly more than a PSB left on a drawy board vs two opponents, I just shove the flop. If you're playing shortstacked, the goal is to get in as many chips as possible over as few streets as possible with TP type hands so that speculative hands (small pocket pairs, suited connectors, etc.) don't have any advantage.
Hand4: Even though I'm all for playing junk on the button, A5o is a bit too junky for me and can be tricky to play in the hands of a poor player (bad RIO); I fold preflop. Even though board is drawy, in this eleventeen way pot there's a decent chance other A is out there, so I would rather let a street check thru and almost bluffcatch here (probably betting the turn if checked thru again). As played, it really depends if villain is a payoff station monkey who think we could be the ones on the busted draw; it also really depends on where he called the flop bet (if he called with lottsa other people still to act after him, this really indicates an A or a busted flush draw more than it does an underpair that we could get value from).
Hand5: Confusing HH, but I fold to the preflop raise unless this is going to go very multiway. Once we call the preflop bet I guess we can't fold to the original bet; I'd consider calling the shortstackish shove depending on if villain can do this with a flush draw.
Hand6: Either raise more to thin the field or (my preference) just overlimp and nutflush / trips / two pair mine. Easy fold to the limp/raise.
Hand7: At loose tables, I think we'd just be better off folding AJo in EP. Even though flop bet is ******edly small, we have nothing with others left to act behind us, so easy fold. Ditto turn. I have no idea how a $55 bet into a $135 pot got two players to fold the river; we lucked out, plain and simple.
Hand8: Given reads, I don't hate this play, although I probably would have made it slightly more just to absolutely not encourage a multiway pot. If table is super loose, I might just fold preflop and move on.
Overall, some pretty horrible play, imo. But welcome to the forums! Next time, just post one hand per thread.
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