$2 NL HE 6-max: 4 handed limp pot

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NL2 hand i played today to release the power path ticket. Only have the screenshot because i was on mobile. 4 way limp, we flop toppair and lead halfpot on the flop into 3 players. Now BB just shoves 100BB+ with 2 players still to act (they both folded)
Would appreciate thoughts to my half pot flop bet and the decision after villain goes allin. Thanks.
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That looks pretty standard at 0.01/0.02 and probably a flush draw, two pairs, or set betting into you to try to get you to fold or pressure you into a high variance spot.
 
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That looks pretty standard at 0.01/0.02 and probably a flush draw, two pairs, or set betting into you to try to get you to fold or pressure you into a high variance spot.
Flush draw i would say highly unlikely since players in general like to call drawing hands. I only very rarely see people overbet daws like this on micros.

Agree on set or 2 pairs. I actually put him on exactly q4 in the bb.
 
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you should start chatting with AI for hand reviews and learning poker , I believe it's the best poker teacher :D
 
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Please write proper hand histories, rather than using a screenshot. (Do not use LLMs!)
What is llm? The hand history is there, sorry i was on the phone and this was everything i was able to capture.
 
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you should start chatting with AI for hand reviews and learning poker , I believe it's the best poker teacher :D
What do you use for that? I think i used once chatgpt to try out and was not really impressed by the poker content.
 
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What do you use for that? I think i used once chatgpt to try out and was not really impressed by the poker content.
What is llm? The hand history is there, sorry i was on the phone and this was everything i was able to capture.
Sorry, I should stop using the acronym. LLM = Large Language Model. ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Claude, etc.

People are starting to use them to format hand histories, and it's 🤮🤮🤮 They're also using it to write posts more than in any other forum I frequent. Whenever you see this style where different emojis are randomly sprinkled throughout the text and every other sentence has something randomly in bold face, and you have all these stupid lists with hand pointing emojis, those are LLM written. No human talks like that.

They're also terrible at poker, for now, they keep making elementary mistakes. But you shouldn't use them even if that wasn't the case.

Anyway, you can just go to Desktop and type up a properly formatted hand history based on the screenshot. There's a hand converter if you can export it from the page; if not (like in this case), it should have a standard format, something like

[description of player positions, stack sizes, and your hand]

[Preflop Action]

Flop (preferably with images, :5h4: etc.) and Pot size
{action on flop}

Turn and pot size (if the hand gets that far)
{action on Turn

River and pot size
{action on River, excluding your last action}

(I know I'm being pedantic, but most people should be spending way more time on writing and analyzing hands histories, so I think learning to write them well is actually very important if you want to improve. And there's a reason for sticking to a format; otherwise you generally forget information that actually matters, and it makes it easier to read.)

Anyway since I've already annoyed you this much now, I'll also take a look at the hand this time as formatted here.

Preflop: eh, limping behind is okay. If people do this a lot, you should start raising some non-premium hands though. Maybe not this one in particular. If you raise, make it big, about twice as much money as is in the pot.

Flop: I generally wouldn't lead here. The board doesn't hit your range, and your hand is pretty marginal. Usually you can play this passively and you'll get a good idea of where you stand.

If you do lead though, half pot is too much. It's 4 way, you can go smaller. Something between a quarter and a third pot.

After the raise it's an easy fold.
 
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Easy fold. And i wouldnt lead out 4ways here especially not with a hand thats half decent and wants to keep the pot small.
 
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I would also not lead here with a kicker this bad. Your hand is not good enough for 3 streets of value, and its best to get some information from seeing, what the other goofballs do, before you start to invest to much. Like if you check, and it then goes bet, raise, call, then you have an easy fold and dont lose anything at all. As played I dont see any reason to stick in 100BB with top pair bad kicker in a limped pot. Yes he could be doing this with a flushdraw, but even that has equity, and if he has two pair or a set - or even just a better kicker - you are more or less drawing dead.
 
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Thanks everyone for the tips. Next time i will check or with lesss opponents in the hand bet 1/3 Pot. Will also try go be less lazy and upload beter hh's 👍
 
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