curious about whether or not thought process / line looks good. Loose defend from the blind against HJ open

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NL Holdem $0.05(BB)
SB ($6.59) [VPIP: 16.3% | PFR: 10.9% | AGG: 23.1% | 3-Bet: 2.3% | Hands: 93]
HERO ($9.88) [VPIP: 29.9% | PFR: 18.9% | AGG: 28.8% | 3-Bet: 7.6% | Hands: 29974]
UTG ($2.7) [VPIP: 9.1% | PFR: 9.1% | AGG: 50% | 3-Bet: 0% | Hands: 22]
HJ ($3.63) [VPIP: 38.2% | PFR: 20% | AGG: 41% | 3-Bet: 11.1% | Hands: 56]
CO ($6.53) [VPIP: 30.4% | PFR: 21.7% | AGG: 46.7% | 3-Bet: 25% | Hands: 24]
BTN ($5.96) [VPIP: 45.7% | PFR: 31% | AGG: 20% | 3-Bet: 2.9% | Hands: 124]

Dealt to Hero: 7 6

UTG Folds, HJ Raises To $0.15, CO Folds, BTN Folds, SB Folds, HERO Calls $0.10

Hero SPR on Flop: [10.88 effective]
Flop ($0.32): 2 5 3
HERO Checks, HJ Bets $0.21 (Rem. Stack: 3.27), HERO Raises To $0.64 (Rem. Stack: 9.09), HJ Calls $0.43 (Rem. Stack: 2.84)

Turn ($1.60): 2 5 3 4
HERO Bets $1.23 (Rem. Stack: 7.86), HJ Raises To $2.84 (allin), HERO Calls $1.61 (Rem. Stack: 6.25)

River ($7.28): 2 5 3 4 A



ok, so, yes I did cold deck villain, but my point of posting this is not to show my zomg sick 5nl cooler. I was planning on barreling a lot of turns in this texture. I do have backdoor diamonds, but I think that a lot of his ace high floats should probably contain a diamond, so I discounted the relevance of this somewhat. I was going to barrel a lot of middling offsuit turns, like an eight or a nine looks good, obviously broadways are bad for my percieved range as they don't coordinate with the texture, and improve villain's range. A board pair is probably also going to be a continue for me, especially a 5, as I can have 2 pairs that fill, top pair that is c/r for value against a dominated ace. How is my c/r sizing? also, I would probably size down on turn if barreling, my sizing is a little bit big perhaps, but I figured that we were in the exact situation that we were in, and wanted to commit villain. does like .95 look better for a turn barrel on a favorable card for my range? Also, is my defend too loose? I think this is the absolute bottom of my defending range, but villain is in HJ, and is running some pretty bad LAGgy stats.

Thoughts?

Fold preflop. I don't even defend 76o from BTN open let alone HJ. As played check-raise is good, continuing on Diamond,8,9,4,7,6,and Ace turns. Probably overbet turn is more profitable since we put All high pocket pairs in a really tough spot and obviously stack Ax on this turn. I don't like Villains cbet on this board texture, nh.

Loose? It's awful.

Downright atrocious defend pre

Flop is ok as played but the turn sizing is really awkward

I welcome the flames. I am a terribad 5nl player trying to figure out wtf is going on.

The weakest offsuit hand I'd defend vs. an MP 3x raise is KQ. KJ is borderline and I fold it.

confirmed that I cannot find a single defending range online HJ vs BB that includes 76o lol. I am trying to get out of these spew situations, and I know that it is a fairly sizable mistake. I am really trying to work on my preflop game, and that's not even an error, it's not even playable considering position, initiative, raw equity vs even a trashy opening range etc etc. I am weak on my preflop game, but I am trying to improve it.

Fold pre. You could call this vs a wide button 2x open though. 3x and an earlier position it's a very bad call.

At least you're putting effort into getting better by researching.

A poster named simplelessons recently posted a few threads based on preflop play though it's more about opening hands but it may help a bit. Simple's started threads.

I'm sure a lot of what you're looking for is found in Beginners Questions sticky at the top of the forum.

duly noted. Thankyou! I will check all of that out.