Andyreas
Moderator
Moderator
Only looking at the river,
There's a one liner to a straight and a flush draw.
Since your opponent played aggressively, it's probably he had AJ or AQ since he bet the flop.
So an Ace is very probable with a 3-bet and you're beaten by a straight.
So easy fold for me.
I'd also have folded PF to a 3-bet.
There's a one liner to a straight and a flush draw.
Since your opponent played aggressively, it's probably he had AJ or AQ since he bet the flop.
So an Ace is very probable with a 3-bet and you're beaten by a straight.
So easy fold for me.
I'd also have folded PF to a 3-bet.
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VladB850
Visionary
Bronze Level
It would have been an easy fold for me on the river. But I think that I would have folded preflop.
But assuming that I would had the chance to see that 10 on the turn I would had tried to force him out from that hand with a half of the pot bet, or something around that sum.
But assuming that I would had the chance to see that 10 on the turn I would had tried to force him out from that hand with a half of the pot bet, or something around that sum.
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fundiver199
Legend
Loyaler
Preflop
With 5 players left to act behind you, JTo is a little marginal. I would normally open JTs from this position, but for offsuit hands the bottom of my opening range is usually QJo or maybe QTo, if the ante is very big. More important though I would never open limp, so if you want to play this hand, please raise it yourself. Having limped I would not fold to a small isolation raise like this though.
Flop
As played the flop is a mandatory check-call, when you flopped second pair.
Turn
You improved to two pair, but there are still many hands in his range, that beat you, so this is another check-call spot. He check back though, which you should be happy about.
River
This was literally the worst card in the deck, since any A or 9 now have a straight, and to add insult to injury a flush is also possible. It is definitely to thin to bet for value, since most of the hands, that might hero call, are better two pair or sets. And I also think, its fine to fold, when he bet. Its important to get past the basic level 1 thinking in poker, which is "I have two pair", and think about your hand in relation to the opponents range. And on this board there are a lot of hands, that beat JT. Its especially likely, he has an ace, since he raised preflop over your limp. If people have hands like 76s or 55, they will often limp behind, whereas AX is more often raised.
Conclusion
You played postflop very well, but limp-calling preflop is not a good strategy, and you are playing slightly to many hands.
With 5 players left to act behind you, JTo is a little marginal. I would normally open JTs from this position, but for offsuit hands the bottom of my opening range is usually QJo or maybe QTo, if the ante is very big. More important though I would never open limp, so if you want to play this hand, please raise it yourself. Having limped I would not fold to a small isolation raise like this though.
Flop
As played the flop is a mandatory check-call, when you flopped second pair.
Turn
You improved to two pair, but there are still many hands in his range, that beat you, so this is another check-call spot. He check back though, which you should be happy about.
River
This was literally the worst card in the deck, since any A or 9 now have a straight, and to add insult to injury a flush is also possible. It is definitely to thin to bet for value, since most of the hands, that might hero call, are better two pair or sets. And I also think, its fine to fold, when he bet. Its important to get past the basic level 1 thinking in poker, which is "I have two pair", and think about your hand in relation to the opponents range. And on this board there are a lot of hands, that beat JT. Its especially likely, he has an ace, since he raised preflop over your limp. If people have hands like 76s or 55, they will often limp behind, whereas AX is more often raised.
Conclusion
You played postflop very well, but limp-calling preflop is not a good strategy, and you are playing slightly to many hands.
neptunas888
Visionary
Bronze Level
Should have played all-in on the turn! Because there are so many draws on the turn, flush draws, straight draws with one card missing. As a result, as I understand it, the opponent closed a straight with an ace. Whether you did the right thing depends on the overall hand, starting preflop.
KevinRBTV
Rock Star
Bronze Level
Thanks a lot! I would like to invest more Time in Poker Theory and Hand statistics I think this would improve my game a lot.
My Problem is my bad english often I don't understand what something means and than I just go on playing and make the same stupid mistakes as always 🙈🤪
Often in my head I know they beat me but I still call!
Today in 300 Dollar freeroll I had KK
Flop was paired I called everything 🙈😑
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fundiver199
Legend
Loyaler
As for the idea of check-jamming the river, maybe thats something, you can do in a high stakes game using the fact, you had a flush blocker in your hand to turn two pair into a bluff. However in freerolls and even up to fairly high stakes online, people are not folding the nut straight to a check-jam, and that would be the main hand, you would be trying to get him off. I would even go as far as to classify it as FPS (Fancy Play Syndrom).
Matt_Burns88
Legend
Bronze Level
If I'm honest, I don't see a lot of good here. I'm not a fan of open limping apart from the SB and I'm not open raising JTo until the BTN. Once you limp and villain raises, you just need to fold. Calling is not profitable.
On the flop you hit your J, but are you in love with your hand? Not really, but you're kind of forced to call with 2nd pair with backdoor straight draw and backdoor flush draw.
On the turn you hit your 2 pair, but this is not a great card for you as the obvious straight with the AK gets there, which villain is often going to c-bet with. When he checks, you can probably discount this, but then the river is the
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...which is probably the worst card in the deck for you, as he now only needs the A for the high end straight or the 9 for the idiot end of the straight, plus it completes the flush draw, which he could certainly have played this way. This is a really easy fold. It's a rough run out for sure, but going back to pre-flop, if you'd just folded, you would have saved yourself an easy 25k chips.
I'd be interested to know what you think villains range is by the river here and which hands you beat and which hands you're beating.
On the flop you hit your J, but are you in love with your hand? Not really, but you're kind of forced to call with 2nd pair with backdoor straight draw and backdoor flush draw.
On the turn you hit your 2 pair, but this is not a great card for you as the obvious straight with the AK gets there, which villain is often going to c-bet with. When he checks, you can probably discount this, but then the river is the
......which is probably the worst card in the deck for you, as he now only needs the A for the high end straight or the 9 for the idiot end of the straight, plus it completes the flush draw, which he could certainly have played this way. This is a really easy fold. It's a rough run out for sure, but going back to pre-flop, if you'd just folded, you would have saved yourself an easy 25k chips.
I'd be interested to know what you think villains range is by the river here and which hands you beat and which hands you're beating.
eetenor
Legend
Loyaler
a good study point for you is to build ranges for your Villains-
Equilab is a free program that helps you to easily build and see and study ranges
As you build ranges you ask yourself on every street what hands that I am a head of does Villain take this line
