As Qd

I'm in MP

I have $100
MP2 had $100

I raise to $3 preflop

MP2 calls
LP calls
SB calls

Flop: 6s 4s 3s pot=$12

Ok, nut flush draw and outs to overcards

SB checks
I bet $7
MP2 raises to $14 (very aggro player....always raises)
LP calls
SB folds

Turn: 2d
I check
MP2 bets $20
LP calls All-in
Hero ?

At this point pot was about $73 and I had $20 to call

I didn't know if MP2 had a made straight or something. I thought about reraising all-in since MP2 had about $50 left after betting $20. Maybe I could win it right there and if not I had a lot of outs.

I called


River: 2c

I check
MP2 checks


After the hand was done. I thought about it some more. LP's flat calls twice should have given me warning bells. And it does when I'm actually paying attention !!

Here is my history with these Pokerroom games.

I need some advice.

First day of .50/1 NL and I figured that to really beat these games takes more than ABC poker.

So for the first 5 days, I played LAG and played a lot of hands and a lot of two suited hands and made a lot of bluffs. A lot of bluffs. Maybe 40 % of my bets were bluffs and showing bluffs.

I would lose large sums of money sometimes but then I'd make large sums and make more than I was losing. It was strange but it was working. It was working so I kept doing it.

I was doing dumb things like I'd have 66 on a flop of

Q 5 9

I'd bet out $6 in SB after calling a preflop raise

Preflop raiser would raise me back to $12 and I'd raise it to $20 and he'd call

Then check turn and fire a $20 bet on river and take it down.

That's basically against ABC poker where it's "No set no bet with small pockets"

So I racked up $900 in that first week but in the 2nd week I reverted back to my tight aggressive self and I haven't made a dime since.

But I'm also getting really unlucky but I wonder if I was onto something ?

I'm just trying to win again. I'm down $70 again tonight.

OK, folding that A-Q from the first post would be ridiculous. You were easily getting the right odds to draw to the nut flush with implied odds.

If the all-in player had the straight flush, then bad luck I guess, but I don't see how you could possibly know that from the action. Furthermore, if you do hit your spade, you can still win money on the side pot from the other player, (who appears to have been on a spade draw as well.)

Finally, raising makes no sense whatsoever as there's already an all-in player, and you'd make very little by stealing the pot, and also cut down your equity significantly if you knock out someone with a spade that would have called you if you hit your flush on the river.

As for your second post, I agree that it plays to be unpredictable in NL cash games. What would be ideal is if you played your tight ABC game enough that people were convinced that was how you played poker, but then you go and make some creative steals about 3 or 4 times an hour. Being aggressive helps a lot in terms of getting payed off when you do hit your hand as well.

Thanks Iggy. So I played it right ? Good. That player that bet $20 on the turn had 77 and no spades !! The player was a female, though so there you go.