$2 NLHE 6-max: NLH02 How would you have played this hand differently?

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$0.02 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 75 BB (VPIP: 29.35, PFR: 14.84, 3Bet Preflop: 5.60, hands: 3,836)
SB: 100 BB (VPIP: 30.15, PFR: 16.31, 3Bet Preflop: 5.70, Hands: 4,120)
BB: 100 BB (VPIP: 28.71, PFR: 17.00, 3Bet Preflop: 6.49, Hands: 4,106)
UTG: 206 BB (VPIP: 27.70, PFR: 15.96, 3Bet Preflop: 6.90, Hands: 3,462)
Hero (MP): 173.5 BB
CO: 311 BB (VPIP: 25.64, PFR: 15.53, 3Bet Preflop: 5.92, Hands: 3,886)

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 9:heart: 9:club:

fold, Hero raises to 4 BB, fold, BTN raises to 13.5 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 9.5 BB

Flop: (28.5 BB, 2 players) 5:diamond: 5:club: 2:diamond:
Hero checks, BTN bets 27.5 BB, Hero calls 27.5 BB

Turn: (83.5 BB, 2 players) 6:heart:
Hero checks, BTN checks

River: (83.5 BB, 2 players) 5:heart:
Hero bets 39.5 BB, BTN calls 34 BB and is all-in

Hero shows 9:heart: 9:club: (Full House, Fives full of Nines)
(Pre 81%, Flop 86%, Turn 5%)
BTN shows 6:club: 6:diamond: (Full House, Sixes full of Fives)
(Pre 19%, Flop 14%, Turn 95%)
Hero wins 5.5 BB
BTN wins 144 BB

I'm glad I had more than him or I would have gotten stacked. I guess I shouldhave known that just a pair wasn't good enough on the river....im such a fish.....

🙁

what would you have done differently? Thanks in advance!
 
Him betting pot on the flop is polarizing with very little stack behind, at first I thought he was trying to push you away from the hand and it's exactly that. So, you fold flop or you commit the rest of your stack (because the effective stacks are 75bb).

He is obviously bad so a shove over his flop bet isn't a bad move imo, he'S now priced in to call with two broadway's.. Prefer shoving to calling (if I decide to go for it) as the money goes in anyway and you wouldn't hate a fold too.

You have to take the stack to pot ratio into consideration. The deeper we are, the more this spot sucks being out of position. But here it's just commit or not right now based on what you have on villain, and being short stack tells me not to put him on TT+ only here.

Anyway, he probably calls here and it's a suckout 🙂
 
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1) Don't post the results.
2) Why did you call preflop. His 3-bet percentage isn't crazy, you're OOP, and over half the flops you'll have to check/fold.
3) Why'd you shove the river? The 5 doesn't improve your hand.
 
calling 3b pre, meh. If it was CO vs BTN I'd call 99. MP vs BTN is close to folding/calling with leaning towards a fold.

AP I think we just jam this flop. Calling is meh and once we do it we are basically never folding. AP on river is pretty meh too. We can't fold if he shoves though and will he call with worse?
 
I'm sorry,didntknow there was a rule about the results.

thanks again!
 
No real rule, I think.

But "confirmation bias" can influence analysis.

Are those # of hands statistics accurate? Usually the lowest level of the micros have a lot of new players, at least where I play.

I have nothing to add to the ideas above. Fold pre; as played, shove flop.
 
The 99 open in EP is bold, but when Villain bets 20% of his stack your stack to pot ratio is very low. Its not big enough to set mind and very vulnerable to high cards on the flop. IMHO, its a fold, but my second choice is a push.

As played I don't understand the check call. Villain only has 34BBs left after her 27.5BB bet. Again, IMHO, it is either push or fold. You have to decide what you are going to do on the turn and river. Only one of the 2 9s improves you hand. so if you aren't good now you liekly won't be good later.
 
Just as people told you so far, it should have been a shove on the flop, however I don't agree with them on the preflop.
If u decide to fold pocketpairs to a 3bet preflop every time, you will eventually fold too many similar hands, opening you to bluffs. Make your calling range a bit wider by calling with even worse cards, like some suited connectors.
In the end, as played, shove on the flop or at least check on the river and hope for a showdown..
 
John A said:
nh... well played.
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heheh not sure if thats sarcasm because i thought i played it really bad but thanks anyway

thanks everyone! this site is great
 
For the most part, I agree with this summary. I think the open raise is good though unless there is a good reason to believe there will be a squeeze.

Did I miss the hero stats? Hero image comes into play here.

I would probably have folded preflop after the 3 bet, thinking I am behind to overs and a coin toss against any two Broadway. You might 4-bet if you thought he was capable of a light 3-bet. When you call the 3-bet, it caps your range. Calling could be the worst idea here, but psychologically easiest to do.

As played after you call the three bet preflop, you are committed if no overcards hit the flop (SPR is less than 2.2 with effective stack of $61.50). Gain fold equity by shoving on his flop bet. When you call, it allows him to draw with Ats+, KJs, etc. which I would say is in his preflop range. Also pushes out flush draw.
 
JayLoyal said:
heheh not sure if thats sarcasm because i thought i played it really bad but thanks anyway

thanks everyone! this site is great
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Nope, you played the hand exactly w/ the highest EV lines taken.
 
I would have shoved on the flop too. I don't know what else you were expecting to do with that flop, and if no over cards come, you're pretty much set to call no matter what, so to stop those possible over cards from coming, you have to shove!
 
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