Poker Stars $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em - 8 players
2+2 Hand Converter Powered By DeucesCracked

BB: $10.25
Hero (UTG): $50.80
UTG+1: $50.00
MP1: $9.25
MP2: $83.15
CO: $42.50
BTN: $56.15
SB: $120.80

Pre Flop: Hero is UTG with K K
Hero raises to $2, 4 folds, BTN calls $2, SB calls $1.75, 1 fold

Flop: ($6.50) 7 5 5 (3 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $5.50, BTN calls $5.50, SB folds

Turn: ($17.50) J (2 players)
Hero bets $14, BTN raises to $38, Hero raises to $43.30 all in, BTN calls $5.30

River: ($104.10) 9 (2 players - 1 is all in)


villain 27/5/0,9....is this always trips/boat!? or just a cooler...


hand 2
Poker Stars $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em - 8 players
2+2 Hand Converter Powered By DeucesCracked

CO: $27.55
BTN: $52.30
SB: $32.50
BB: $94.25
UTG: $49.00
Hero (UTG+1): $49.00
MP1: $105.30
MP2: $58.00

Pre Flop: Hero is UTG+1 with Q Q
1 fold, Hero raises to $2, 1 fold, MP2 calls $2, 3 folds, BB calls $1.50

Flop: ($6.25) 4 7 6 (3 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $5, MP2 calls $5, BB folds

Turn: ($16.25) 2 (2 players)
Hero bets $10, MP2 raises to $25, Hero raises to $40, MP2 raises to $51 all in, Hero calls $2 all in

River: ($100.25) 9 (2 players - 2 are all in)

turn raise means my overpair is no good? villain 18/9/1.2....

hand 3

Poker Stars $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em - 8 players
2+2 Hand Converter Powered By DeucesCracked

BTN: $63.45
SB: $9.50
BB: $48.30
UTG: $27.90
UTG+1: $70.00
Hero (MP1): $59.70
MP2: $49.25
CO: $57.05

Pre Flop: Hero is MP1 with K K
2 folds, Hero raises to $2, 2 folds, BTN calls $2, 1 fold, BB calls $1.50

Flop: ($6.25) 7 3 5 (3 players)
BB bets $2.50, Hero raises to $7.50, BTN folds, BB calls $5

Turn: ($21.25) 6 (2 players)
BB bets $10, Hero calls $10

River: ($41.25) 9 (2 players)
BB bets $17, Hero calls $17

in review I dont like my calldown, but villains stats....28/20/2.2...

any thoughts appreciated :-)
m

Hand # 1-Looks ok. You may want to consider checking turn. You are either way ahead or way behind, so I don't see too many river cards hurting you. By checking, you get Villian to open up his range and get an extra bet here or on river from the hands that would of folded to your turn bet.

Hand #2-I just fold to raise. With his AF, and that raise size, I don't see you being ahead too often.

Hand # 3-Raise more on flop. On turn, I'm more inclined to fold because of his stats not call. Also, he is in BB.

When you have these overpair hands, don't just stack off blindly, think about villians range and your relative strength compared to that range, then act accordingly.

hand 1: ughh.. yes. you should fold here. given villains stats... for sure.
i mean, look at his agg. factor postflop. (.9)??? wtfff??? combined with his looseness preflop 27%.. this is trip 5's like a bajillion percent of the time IMO.. but i can understand stacking off here. im guessing he turned trip JJ on you? or had A5?

hand 2: villain flopped a set. on you. as a general rule.. people with like 18 VPIP and lower.. people who play reasonably tight.. etc. a "call on flop, small raise on turn" is a SET a LARGEEEE amount of the time. its a tough fold... but yeah. i smell set

hand 3: no analyzation required... you know you overcalled on both streets :\


understandably overpairs are difficult to play when u get agg. show back at you. :X

those are my evaluations for the hands though

ye i agree with wats been said before. another point: while u keep getting stacked with high pocket hands consider raising larger PF (mayb $4) to make sure ur heads up on flop and also cut down opponents' implied odds, bcoz as long as ur happy going allin with overcards everytime then they can be justified calling with all kinds of crap for $2

thx for input!