$2 NL HE 6-max:

miklcct

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Hero at UTG, hole 10c9c

Hero opened with 6¢, MP called, CO folded, BTN called, SB called, BB called

Flop Ac2cTs, SB checked, BB bet 23¢, Hero raised to 49¢, BTN folded, CO all-in to $2.32, SB folded, BB called all-in to $2.10

Pot was now $5.21 and hero's stack was 77¢, call or not?
 
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I think call it off now as you are undoubtedly behind but have a good price to draw and catch up (though your flush draw will be drawing dead sometimes), but few things to learn form this hand..

1. It's best to buy in for a full stack when playing cash games. So make sure your stack never falls below $2.
If you can't do this then you are probably not bank rolled to play cash yet (I'd recommend 50 Buy Ins, so you need at least $100 in your account).
2. Don't open raise UTG T9s in 2NL. (GTO Nerds come at me:devilish:)
The games are too loose, you are likely to get multiple callers with a very so-so hand out of position (short stack too makes it worse, you are never getting implied odds i.e. make a giant hand occasionally and stack someone for 200bb+)
You have ended up in a spot you just shouldn't be in by a poor decision pre-flop.
3. What where you trying to achieve by 'clicking it back' on the flop?
You think this guy is going to fold after betting the flop into 4 people?
What do you think he has that bets that he can then fold?
You still have the CO and BTN yet to act behind you and could do anything at this point.
Your bets should be for value (where worse hands call) or bluff (better hands fold) - know which of these you are aiming for when you bet.
4. Take notes on villains.
See what BB bets with and what they both end up getting it in with. You will be losing this pot more the majority of times, so at least get some notes for your money!

(I hope you realise if you hit with your hand you will not win the full pot here? Only an additional 77c each from the other two in the hand as a the ,main pot, they will contest the rest in a side pot)
 
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I have $10 in my account, what game should I play?
 
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Hero at UTG, hole 10c9c

Hero opened with 6¢, MP called, CO folded, BTN called, SB called, BB called

Flop Ac2cTs, SB checked, BB bet 23¢, Hero raised to 49¢, BTN folded, CO all-in to $2.32, SB folded, BB called all-in to $2.10

Pot was now $5.21 and hero's stack was 77¢, call or not?
The answer to your question is what your V's ranges are? If you take the time now to build ranges and do so for many other spots your decision tree in game will be greatly enhanced.

An excellent free tool for range building is EQUILAB. The tool has grids with all the hands and you can just click on hands to highlight what they might have or not--then you can even see your equity vs those 2 ranges


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This is an example of the CO range where I adjusted for club hands as well as all AX I did not include TT or 22 but would if I were actually looking at equities. You can see the suit selection button you click on that, it semi automates the process very quick, just great to use.

This is an incredible study tool. You can also input the flop after you have built ranges and run the equities to know how much equity T9cc has against this range and the BB range which you would also build.

:unsure::geek:
 
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