Min raise had been enough on a couple of earlier orbits, plus I figure that 36s is a good hand to trap with if I hit the flop hard
this is just lol.
you're justifying a bad play by saying you might get lucky with it occasionally. save yourself money and stop minraising with junk.
do you also min raise with 72, T4, 23, 38 and justify it in the same way?
now read what you actually wrote.
Min raise had been enough on a couple of earlier orbits. so you raised with the intention of taking down the pot there and then or
plus I figure that 36s is a good hand to trap with if I hit the flop hard. neither of the things you were looking to happen when you raised happened so why are you still pissing money away in this pot? you made a mistake pf but at least you did it for a reason.
once the plan has failed don't compound it by throwing the rest of your stack awayI disagree, (when i say this i dont mean to have a pop or be at all disparaging to OP) but on Every level this hand, (the way you played/approached it) is so horrible you may as well shove the rest in and hope he mangles the hand worse thatn you and folds!
firsty please forget the min raise, it's weak and a horrible way of coming into a pot.
min raise had been good enoughfor what? it's not a tourney, you dont have to blind steal and with a holding like this you WANT as many people in the pot to help with the pot odds, you're the one gambling here and needs to connect (unless for example you're playing at a different level and say super agg on a weak table and are looking to isolate players pre from pos and c-bet them to death) but that's not the case here, this is micro level poker where you should ONLY being playing hands like this in UNRAISED pots from the blinds and maybe late if you've got limpers before you to help give the odds to play but that would still be dependent on what your post flop play is like and the table dynamic(though at this level table dynamic could be...crazy.......weak whatever you like but ultimately shit)!, if you're not so confident about playing flops then playing hands like this is gonna get you in a lot of trouble(and at this level it's sooooooooooooooooooooo unnecessary)
you dont really give any info on your oppo's but getting two customers here FORGET c-betting this flop, it's so draw heavy, you should check and see if you can get to the turn for free, facing any sort of reasonable sized bet you should be check folding(to a reasonable sized bet) here 100% of the time.
Please DONT chase dead money! just stick to playing premiums at these small stakes, you'll find doing anything else hugely -EV
couple of other things.........
maybe i can rep the A, or the flush, is betting the pot enoughtheres two different lines here and as a rule mate a bluff doesn't always have to involve you getting your shovel out and chucking huge piles of cash into a pot whilst screaming"ffs you idiot look how much i'm betting, please dont call"!

If you had the Ace on such a scary board pot control would be the primary line and betting the pot to build it to equate to more than your own stack is not what you want to be doing and although betting the pot to get maximum value for your flush if you had it is o.k your oppo is probably just looking at whatever shit he's got in his hand and isnt overly interested in what you're trying to "rep" combined with the fact he may also have a genuine hand here this was a horrible spot to fire again.
DO NOT attempt to bluff players at these levels, you dont need to, you wont be able to and can accept that now or crack on and learn it the hard/expensive way.
If you want to make money at micro levels mate, forget trying to range you oppos, playing position, and moving people off of pots, it's all about patients, patients, patients!
gl to you
