$2 NL HE 6-max: Was it a mistake to call on the pre-flop?

Poker Hand #HD2924721468: Hold'em No Limit ($0.01/$0.02) - 2026/06/24 08:44:37
Table 'NLHWhite45' 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: ed17449 ($2 in chips)
Seat 2: Hero ($1.98 in chips)
Seat 3: 932d05cf ($2 in chips)
Seat 5: b6fbe9ad ($1.46 in chips)
Seat 6: 8e5af7d1 ($4.69 in chips)
ed17449: posts small blind $0.01
Hero: posts big blind $0.02
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to ed17449
Dealt to Hero [Kd Qh]
Dealt to 932d05cf
Dealt to b6fbe9ad
Dealt to 8e5af7d1
932d05cf: folds
b6fbe9ad: raises $0.04 to $0.06
8e5af7d1: folds
ed17449: raises $0.13 to $0.19
Hero: calls $0.17
b6fbe9ad: calls $0.13
*** FLOP *** [7s As 9s]
ed17449: bets $0.29
Hero: folds
b6fbe9ad: calls $0.29
*** TURN *** [7s As 9s] [Jh]
ed17449: bets $0.87
b6fbe9ad: raises $0.11 to $0.98 and is all-in
ed17449: calls $0.11
b6fbe9ad: shows [Ah Th] (a pair of Aces)
ed17449: shows [Jc Jd] (three of a kind, Jacks)
*** RIVER *** [7s As 9s Jh] [7d]
*** SHOWDOWN ***
ed17449 collected $2.94 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $3.11 | Rake $0.15 | Jackpot $0.02 | Bingo $0 | Fortune $0 | Tax $0
Board [7s As 9s Jh 7d]
Seat 1: ed17449 (small blind) showed [Jc Jd] and won ($2.94) with a full house, Jacks full of Sevens
Seat 2: Hero (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 3: 932d05cf folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: b6fbe9ad showed [Ah Th] and lost with two pair, Aces and Sevens
Seat 6: 8e5af7d1 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)

OK first of all this is confusing because your first image does not relate to the posted hand history below it.

Now, as for the hand history.

1. Your stack is not 100bb. You should top it up. Or don't but you are going to be brutally hunted by players who will label you as a fish.

2. I think the call is probably a blunder. You are between two players who are displaying aggression. You have an offsuit broadway connector. There are way better spots to play from that don't expose you to being re-raised by the initial raiser, which will put you in a difficult spot.

KQo is not a good hand to call if there's two players raising already.

Thank you guys. Seems like I posted the wrong image. I usually buy in for 100 BB but in that image I missclicked cause I had free tickets. Definitely feels like folding should have been the move if we're talking about the hand history, should've trusted my gut.

Yeah KQo is definitely not strong enough to cold call a 3-bet pretty much ever. Even if the 3-bettor is in maniac, you are still behind to junky AX hands, you are out of position, and you are not closing the action. The original raiser can put in a 4-bet, and its a disaster to put in 8,5 BB more pre and then not even see a flop. Even AQ is usually a fold here, or perhaps with reads a cold 4-bet.

puzzlefish said:

OK first of all this is confusing because your first image does not relate to the posted hand history below it.

Now, as for the hand history.

1. Your stack is not 100bb. You should top it up. Or don't but you are going to be brutally hunted by players who will label you as a fish.

2. I think the call is probably a blunder. You are between two players who are displaying aggression. You have an offsuit broadway connector. There are way better spots to play from that don't expose you to being re-raised by the initial raiser, which will put you in a difficult spot.

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He's 1bb short of a full stack... but he's also just posted the BB. Do you think it'll make a difference if he's sitting with 1.98 as opposed to 2.00?

Did you have ATs, according to your hand?

Poker Orifice said:

He's 1bb short of a full stack... but he's also just posted the BB. Do you think it'll make a difference if he's sitting with 1.98 as opposed to 2.00?

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It won't this time, but he has shown that he doesn't top up in the attached image from his other hand. I should have formatted my post better.

puzzlefish said:

It won't this time, but he has shown that he doesn't top up in the attached image from his other hand. I should have formatted my post better.

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Yeah we definitely do not want to be sitting as a cash table with less than 25BB, as OP did on the picture. On most sites its pretty easy to enable auto top-up, so that its a one-time decision to always start a cash game hand with a full stack.

puzzlefish said:

It won't this time, but he has shown that he doesn't top up in the attached image from his other hand. I should have formatted my post better.

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I didn't even look at the picture. Correct you are.