Hand 1, jesus you got ridic lucky. How he doesnt snap call you there i honestly dont know. What story are you telling him? However, nice read of scared money and i guess some ppl are dumb so WP there. FWIW ur repping nothing, AA/KK/AK dont play that fast to a check-raise usually at this stage, AQ-A10 you are uber likely to have raised with pre, no other combinations of hand and i doubt you play ace rag so superstrong against a checkraise. 22/air means good player prolly looks you up here.

Totally agree with this. Pretty horrendous that your oppenent folded in my opinion.

On the 44 hand, you say you call pre to hit a set, then when the flop comes you suddenly change your mind and decide to bluff quite blindly. Usually good to have a consistent line of thought, although obviously there are some situations where you need to change you mind, I'm not sure this was one of them.

I have a habit of getting my chips in really bad really often though.

Maybe because you ship 40BB in pre with AQ....

Just a weird coincidence...

Do you think with these stack sizes it's best to call the preflop raise? Then are you reasonably happy to get stacks in on most A high flops?

Maybe, but I would say you're ahead of both their ranges, so you should probably raise, and any raise will probably commit you if they go all in, so you may as well just go all in.

I have a habit of getting my chips in really bad really often though.

I probably would have just shoved preflop. I call flop.

Hi,

1) I call shove but am not especially confident we're ahead. He could easily have higher two pair now ace is out, but on the other hand he could easily just have Adxd, or some total crap.
       A comment on your flop bet: I don't like betting so much here. I think it in a limped pot it makes it pretty clear you have two pair.

2) I don't think raising here will get many folds. There are too many draws and people love draws. If you call and hit your straight I can't imagine you'll get much action unless someone is beating you. I mean, I probably call at the time because I'm a fish, but you should probably fold.

3) Meh, I'd probaly call, but I'm a fish

..Hero is tight passive..

Agreed.

In this type of spot villians range must surely be heavily weighted to stuff that's beating you, so you have 2 outs, or a biggish draw (flush + 1 or 2 overs?) which you might only have like 60% equity against.

One thing tho, you have like $150 left and there's like "Edit: $420" (Wrong - $270 (?)) in the pot so you're getting a nice price.

p.s. I'm not good in these spots, or good in general for that matter.

As a general point maybe I'd raise a little more preflop ($30?) since there are so many limpers and you're out of position. Probably wouldn't have made much difference in this particular hand.

Other than look it looks totally fine in my opinion.

I don't understand what is happening here.

Isn't this a super standard push?

I find spots like this pretty hard.

I think I could maybe find a fold on the river, I can't think of much that you beat that would bet this way. AxKd seems to be a legit part of his range on the flop and turn, but I really think a hand like that would check on the river. I guess another thing to think about on the river is whether you're calling to split or to win.

Hmm...I'd put his range on something like AxKd, AxQd, connected diamonds. I can't really see some one betting a set like this since it's only like 1/2-2/3rd of pot each time, I could be wrong here tho. Would some one with his Stats raise pre and call a re-raise with connected diamonds?

Meh, I have no idea. I think while I am playing I'd probably call this, and then afterwards when I think about it decide it's probably a fold on the river, or maybe sooner.

What doubleup said.

He might be re-raising light because he's one of those crazy 2p2 posters who are huge winners. But what are your options:
Re-raise all in, which will effectively make your hand a bluff, unless you put him on AK and want him to call with that.
Call - then you have to only play for set value - which I don't think you have odds for.
Fold - you lose a little.

Hi

I squeezed in long live £1/£2 session over the weekend (at gutshot, maybe that was where you were as well) and noticed a few things in particular which I consider mistakes / total nonsense, which even the better players were doing (and I do as well). These are more apparent in live games because you can hear people explain their awesome thought processes during / after hands.

One important thing to remember when thinking about live hand analysis is that probably half the table will be horrible horrible players so there is little point trying to analyse/critique their play because their thought process only makes sense to themselves or people with a similar mindset, just think about your play in relation to how you think they act.

Here are some:
Letting pot sizes get out of control with weak hands (and OOP) - So, in your example hand you said you wanted to keep the pot size small, yet you ended up playing for stacks. This is an issue. I would have check called that all the way. This would have cost you like £200 max rather than £400 or whatever, which obviously still isn't great, but I think in the long run this is a better play.

"I just wanted to take the pot down right there" & "Protecting my hand!" - Soooo many people say this and in my opinion it's just not the right way to think at all. You are either betting for value or you are bluffing.

Betting for information / Defining your hand - see above.

Not thinking ahead or having a plan - I saw often people having really huge dwell ups thinking about what to do (specifically in response to some one raising them) where from the previous action / pot size the player should have already had a plan about what to do. For instance, in hand 1 if you are betting that river, you just have to call that push, I'm glad you did call it, and hope you instacalled it. Hand 2, again I'm glad you pushed, because that must have plan after you checked the flop right? (on a side note I'd have just lead out that flop)

Betting too small in relation to the pot - I saw this happening way too often (obviously there are some times when it's good to bet like 1/4 of the pot or something). It's a bit tricky because the pots get so big since most people are such huge calling stations pre flop, but you just have to not be a pussy about it bet a decent size if you are going to bet at all.

Trying to get in on the action - You said "Been playing live cash the last couple of nights to disastrous effect. I lost a ton but im utterly astounded at how odd the play is". This bascailly translates to the players are horrible and you should be able to beat them but you didn't. This is a totally acceptable thing to think and it's almost certainly true. I also think it myself and it used to frustrate me when I lost significantly. One of the main reasons why I was losing was that I'd be watching all the insane action going down with people having showdowns for £1k+ pots with like bottom pair and I want to get involved myself, so I'd start calling like £30 preflop OOP with total rubbish garbage hands, and this is just a major leak, but it's hard to stop yourself. Just thought I'd mention this as something to think about in case you also do it.

That's quite a long post and it's supposed to be constructive, not critising.

Cliff notes: Hand 1 I would have check called all the way, as played call the raise. Hand2 shove.

Nah, I meant that hand was a prime example that people are willing to just call down with a very weak hand when you've shown rather a lot of strength.

It was kind of a mini rant because I just can't believe some of the rubbish people call with playing live, it makes me lose a lot of cash, although I guess it means I win more when I have a hand.

Calling clock isn't that uncommon is cash games? I play at the gutshot and it seems to happen several times per session.

A prime example of why never to bluff in a low limit live cash game. "OMG I HAVE ABOUT THE 20th NUTS I'M PROBABLY WINNING SO I'LL JUST CALL DOWN THE ENTIRE WAY"

As others have said, I'd also lead out on the flop.

he thinks for 4-5 minutes - Call clock here.

They're playing poker, not solitaire.

I think that clears it up.