Hey guys, this is my first post here so I wanted to say hi before anything! =) Im not sure if this kind of hand review goes into the Poker Theory subforum, tel me if its that way, please.

Getting to the spot, its a NL5 5max hand in Winamax (a European poker site for France, Spain, Portugal and Italy).

Villain (100BB, VP25, PR23, 150hands, common level regular) opens 2.4BB in CO. SB calls, hero (covers villain) calls in BB with 6h6c.

Flop (7.2BB) comes 6sQd2d. SB checks, hero checks, villain bets 2.4BB (1/3pot). SB folds, hero raises to 8BB(3.33x). Villain calls.

Turn(23.2BB) Qc. Hero bets 12BB (1/2pot) and villain calls.

This is where the hand starts getting interesting for me. Thinking about his range. I dont know if he would continue with all his Q, and the second coming reduces his combos, so I put him mainly in flush draws. Taking this into account, I want to keep him in just in case the river completes the flush so I can stack him. Usually I would bet here 3/4pot with a range of 66, 22, 62 polarized with bluffs like 34, 45, 35 and flush draws, but I chose to go for 1/2pot to give him enough odds to continue with the flush draw.

River(47.2BB) Ad. Hero bets 35BB (2/3pot) villain raises all in (77.6BB) and hero snap calls villain AcQh with a better full house.

Not gonna lie, once the diamond and the raise came, I was completely blind thinking about Vegas and the ****ing Mirage and didnt stop to think about how the Ace of diamond coming and the Queen in the flop blocked many of his flush combos, leaving him with something like K6-KJ, J9-JT, T8-T9, 98, 87, 76, 65. You could remove or add some combos depending on the player, that is my CO opening range for 6max and looks like a good approximation for me since we have the same stats.

I bet 2/3 to avoid getting checked back with medium flushes like the suited connectors expecting to be raise jammed with the better ones (Kx and maybe JT).

The thing is, he has 6 nut flushes in this range, the same number that AQ combos, and maybe he doesnt jam them once the board is paired, but GTO solver says the call was correct and I dont know what to think about it.

Extra question: Solver calls 100% of the time with 6d6h and 6d6c but only 50% of time with 6c6h. This doesnt make any sense to me since we block Kd6d, one of the combos we want him to jam.

Any help or tip (even not related to the question, but to sizings and so is appreciated).

Thanks guys

Your first mistake is using a solver for 5nl. Playing anything close to GTO at these stakes is less profitable than playing exploitatively. It's not bad to understand GTO but at 5nl you're going to want to over-fold in some spots and vice versa.

Considering it's 5nl, villain can show up with almost anything. Some villans will overplay Qx here because they have trips and don't care about the flush. Others will shove a flush and some will only shove AQ here. I can't see how it's anything than a cooler and a +ev call given the player pool.

It's good that you're thinking about combos but it's easy to get too bogged down in hands that are probably quite standard. I've always been a believer that playing thousands and thousands of hands at a certain stake is the best way to beat the stake (provided you're a thinking player and not just a drooler donking stacks off) then adding extra complexity to your strategy as you gain more experience.

I may be talking bollocks but I know a guy who lives by GTO for <$30 home games and spends more time studying than he does playing, which is completely pointless because his opponents are playing so far from GTO his theory doesn't even apply to the games he's playing.

You played the hand fine. This is an easy cooler at these stack depths.

Nice hand, both previous posts are correct

Thanks for your responses, guys.

Its not that Im trying to play full GTO. I always try to play MES but obviously im still learning (if not, I would not be in NL5). Im also a believer of the playing tons of hands. I have 200k by now (100k in NL2 and 100k in NL5) but my winrate dropped from 8BB/100 to 0.7 when jumping stakes, so Im trying to find ways to improve and detect some leaks.

In any case, thanks again for your feedback.