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[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 6339815, member: 427881"]
General question you need to ask yourself is why are you betting.  Are you going to force folds from stronger hands or get calls from weaker?  If not, don't bet.  The river illustrates this brutally.  You were only getting called by aces, kings, straights and full houses which is a disaster.

What did they have?  If it's not AK, QQ, QJs or KQs/KJs I'd be gobsmacked.  If they didn't have that you have them beat so what does the shove on the river achieve?

The 4Bet pre flop feels too big - I can only assume you wanted to force the fold. I'd be more in the 17-20BB range as if they shove over you it's a bit easier to get away from as you're not calling a re-raise shove with JJ (even if they're 4Bet shoving 6% of hands you're only 55% favourite to win so you're just gambling if getting in with JJ often).

JJ is seeing an overcard on nearly 50% of flops hence why the pre flop is too big - that said you've done it now and can't not CBet that flop.  You basically turned your hand face up and said you didn't have an Ace, whereas a 1/3 to 1/2 pot bet there probably folds out most non-ace hands.

The turn bet is far too small - what are you really folding out with that?  You could have probed the flop at that size or a little bigger and scared them off, but on the turn with an AKT all on the board it's likely they hit something.  You need to scare them off or not put any more chips in.

By the river you've made it a really easy decision for them - the shove means you only get called by hands that beat you, so why bother shoving?  You think he's calling with a ten?
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