Starting from scratch?

[antolyalex]

Hey guys, for the first time in my poker life, I've started studying. I've been playing for 5 or 6 years, participating in tournaments (with no significant results and a negative chart) ranging from $0.55 to $530 (where I beat Lena900 on pokerstars, lol). Anyway, I want to start being a pro for the first time and study, and for that, I need your help. This is my first hand, and I have a question about it.

Hand #1: Daily $1 Deep Stacks (8-minute levels, 12.5% Antes)
https://gg.gl/644ti

1 Is a good call preflop?
2 Is a good call vs Cbet? (post-Flop)
3 What about the turn? (I make a good call vs shove)?

I'm currently studying The Mental Game of Poker and strategies for beating small stakes (poker tournaments), additionally pushing fold charts (12.5%), OP ranges from various positions, ranges to defend against 3B and 4B. (I don't use HUDs, ICM, PT4 or HM) I also don't know how to use solver tools.

Any advice you can give me?

 

[fundiver199]

Welcome to the forum. We have a special section for hand analysis, so please post specific hands there next time.

Preflop
This is definitely to loose. Personally I would even be hesitant to flat here with JTs, because there are so many players left to act behind, and the original raiser is quite short, which is not ideal for playing drawing hands. But if we look at GTO charts, we are probably supposed to at least partially flat with JTs and perhaps even J9s to give us board coverage and so on. However a suited 3-gapper is definitely to loose. You are not even supposed to play this hand from this position, if it folds to you. Studying some preflop charts is an easy way to clean up your game.

Flop
Obviously we dont call with a suited hand only to fold to a small flop bet, when we flop a flushdraw. But we do have a choise between calling and raising, and I prefer a raise here. If you call, pot will be 10k, and the original raiser only has 10k more in his stack, so against him there is only a pot sized bet left. Which mean, that against him you have an easy jam. It does complicate things slightly, that BB is also in the hand, and he has more chips. But its still only a 2 X size of the pot jam against him, and he is going to fold a lot facing that sort of action. So I prefer a jam here, but calling is definitely better than folding.

Turn
You improved to second pair, and now the original raiser bet really small. This looks weak, but at this point I dont think, a jam achieve much, because most of the time both player will call with better hands and fold worse. If someone has a hand like A5, they are likely not going to stack it off as a third pair, and if someone has a hand like KT, they are not going to fold top pair. So now I prefer to just call and look to play a river. As played your raise commit you to the pot, so when BB jam, you know, you are behind and drawing, but you still have to call.

 

[fundiver199]

Also I recommend our free 30 day course. It has several sections, that relate to this hand including preflop, playing draws, playing the turn and river, and the idea of pot control AKA showdown value.

 

[dreamer13]

In fact, there is nothing complicated in quickly learning to play poker from scratch and independently. All that is needed is a good source with structured information, where you can get all the necessary knowledge, at any stage of becoming a professional poker player.A stable mental state in poker is incredibly important. Emotions have no place in this game. If you want to succeed, work in this direction as well as you work on theory.

 

[antolyalex]

Also I recommend our free 30 day course. It has several sections, that relate to this hand including preflop, playing draws, playing the turn and river, and the idea of pot control AKA showdown value.

Do you know if this course is available in Spanish?

 

[fundiver199]

Do you know if this course is available in Spanish?

I dont think so.

 

[Geo90]

try this site, it helps a lot if you want to learn on your own, I found it useful https://railbird.gg/dashboard