I turned over to the darkside a little bit today and fired up some 4NL.

Villain is 25/15 over 20. No notes.


Merge - $0.04 NL - Holdem - 8 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

UTG+1: $1.90
MP: $4.05
MP+1: $2.78
Hero (CO): $4.45
BTN: $3.72
SB: $4.89
BB: $4.15
UTG: $1.69

SB posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.04

Pre Flop: ($0.06) Hero has J Q

fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to $0.12, BTN raises to $0.42, fold, fold, Hero calls $0.30



I make the call here because I'm 2:1 and I've got decent implied odds with my hand. Please correct me if newb LHE player is newb and I'm wrong.



Flop: ($0.90, 2 players) 5 K A
Hero checks, BTN bets $0.45...



I'm just about a 50/50 favorite here, drawing to the nut flush/nut straight. Do I wants all the money in the pot now? I anticipate that x/calling here is too obvious that I'm on any kind of draw, if a diamond spikes I may not get any more monies in. If this were limitz HE I'd be x/raising, but doing so here means lots of monies.

Please destroy my play!

fold pre

c/c flop since it hits his 3bet range so hard

^+1

Calling 3bets oop in NL is not a good position to be in. In my experience you'll rarely find anyone making a profit calling 3bets out of position just cause you start off with such disadvantages. You've a marginal hand (if it wasn't marginal you'd be raising), you don't have position & you don't have initiative. Outside of very specific spots you shouldn't be calling 3bets oop.

On the flop calling is fine as 0eq says, it hits his 3b range hard so you'd just be getting it in as a coinflip with close to no fold equity.

This is micro stakes NL, they're not usually thinking about what you've got, most of the time they haz two cards & are happy with that. And even when they are thinking they can't always find a fold.