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Message: [QUOTE="fundiver199, post: 6798816, member: 397965"] Preflop This should mostly be a call, and if you are going to mix in a 3-bet, sizing needs to be much larger. With this sizing you are just bloating the pot, when you are out of position with a hand, thats very difficult to play, unless you flop a set. Flop 77 does benefit quite a bit from protection, so I think, its ok to C-bet this flop. Turn Now you have to slow down and check though. If you are going to bet 77, its for value, and what worse hands are going to call you, if you bet all 3 streets? Especially when you go this large and bet almost full pot. You are almost turning your hand into a bluff, and the hand is to strong for that. River You finally slowed down and checked, which is fine. Results So he had a slightly better pocket pair and you lost. This is not important though. The important is your thought process including the rationale for making a small 3-bet preflop and betting almost full pot on the turn. And also what you write in the post "I did not think, he had a J". Well why? He should be opening plenty of JX hands from BTN, so he can very easily have a J here. There are only 18 combos of 88-TT, but there are 38 combos of J9, JT, QJ, KJ and AJ, and there is no reason, why he would not play these hands the exact way, he did here, apart from checking back the river. This sounds like a very results oriented post, where you are basically thinking, that maybe you could have bluffed him on the river. But the goal in poker is not to take a hand with showdown value and turn it into a bluff against a slightly better hand. The river action of check-check is fine and standard for both players, but you made serious mistakes earlier in the hand. Just ask yourself this question: If he had turned over 66 or A5, would you then also think, you should have bet the river? [/QUOTE]

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