€4 NL HE STT: My two pairs got rivered after I was pot-committed

Game #2366885522: Table €4 SNG 5 Seat - 15.00/30.00 - No Limit Hold'Em - Total prize €19 - 19:38:37 2026/03/02
*** Seated players ***
Seat 1: swimmike (1665)
Seat 2: DrHeiter (1455)
Seat 3: inicolae (1002)
Seat 4: Coke69 (1893)
Seat 5: dragoshatz (1485)
*** Blinds and button ***
inicolae has the button
Coke69 posts small blind 15
dragoshatz posts big blind 30
*** Hole cards ***
Dealt to Coke69 [Qd Jc]
Dealt in dragoshatz
Dealt to swimmike [Tc 9s]
Dealt in DrHeiter
Dealt in inicolae
*** Preflop ***
swimmike calls 30
DrHeiter folds
inicolae folds
Coke49 raises 45 to 60
dragoshatz calls 30
swimmike calls 30
*** Flop *** [9d 5c Td]
Coke69 bets 30
dragoshatz folds
swimmike raises 210 to 210
Coke69 calls 180
*** Turn *** [9d 5c Td] [Qs]
Coke69 bets 300
swimmike raises 1200 to 1200
Coke69 calls 900
*** River *** [9d 5c Td] [Qs] [5d]
Coke69 bets 423, and is all-in
swimmike calls 195, and is all-in
Uncalled bet returned to Coke69: 228
*** Showdown ***
swimmike shows [Tc 9s], Two pairs, Tens up
Coke69 shows [Qd Jc], Two pairs, Queens up
Coke69 wins 3390
swimmike finished the tournament in 5th place
*** Summary ***
Total pot 3390
Seat 1: swimmike: bet 1665 and won 0, net result: -1665
Seat 4: Coke69: bet 1893 and won 3618, net result: 1725
Seat 5: dragoshatz: bet 60 and won 0, net result: -60

I was well ahead with my two pairs, and when the turn went wet, I made a pot-sized bet to try to stop the villain from outdrawing me. He continued, then he got a useful card at the river. When should I have stopped playing my two pairs? Should I have called instead of raising the turn?

Good luck next time to you too)

Next time please try to use the hand converter, as your hand history is very difficult to read and lacks information like the size of the pot.


Preflop
Seems like you were in HJ, and then T9o is a fold. If you had T9s, you can play the hand, and then you should come in for a raise not a limp. As played you of course need to call the extra 30 chips and see a flop.

Flop
Pot much be around 200, and SB now makes a C-bet for 30 (min-bet), which is very fishy. You should obviously raise this, and your sizing is good.

Turn
Now SB leads again, even though he got raised on the flop, which is a donk bet. You are again correct to raise, but you should have jammed rather than left yourself with a tiny amount of chips behind for the river. There is not a single hand, that will call another 900, that will not also call a jam for 1.095.

River
Now the board pair, which mean, you lose to a 5 or a Q. But at this point the hand is just silly, because you should have been all-in on the turn, so this should never have happened.

Results
Just a standard bad beat. Your mistakes were to limp preflop with a hand, you should have folded, and to not get the last 195 chips in on the turn.

fundiver199 said:

Next time please try to use the hand converter, as your hand history is very difficult to read and lacks information like the size of the pot.

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The hand converter didn't work.

miklcct said:

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Ok. Maybe hand histories from that site is not compatible with the converter.

fundiver199 said:

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Preflop
Seems like you were in HJ, and then T9o is a fold. If you had T9s, you can play the hand, and then you should come in for a raise not a limp. As played you of course need to call the extra 30 chips and see a flop.

Flop
Pot much be around 200, and SB now makes a C-bet for 30 (min-bet), which is very fishy. You should obviously raise this, and your sizing is good.

Turn
Now SB leads again, even though he got raised on the flop, which is a donk bet. You are again correct to raise, but you should have jammed rather than left yourself with a tiny amount of chips behind for the river. There is not a single hand, that will call another 900, that will not also call a jam for 1.095.

River
Now the board pair, which mean, you lose to a 5 or a Q. But at this point the hand is just silly, because you should have been all-in on the turn, so this should never have happened.

Results
Just a standard bad beat. Your mistakes were to limp preflop with a hand, you should have folded, and to not get the last 195 chips in on the turn.

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I agree with fundiver the issue with this hand is your foundation- we fold hands like this preflop to avoid spots like this. We want to be thinking about being dominated after we make a hand. Our V are going to have better Tx and better 9x and over pairs in their ranges as well as- as we saw here -QJ KJ that hit this board well.
Better hands to play in a limp strategy are 65 76 54 as your V have fewer combos that dominate and seldom flop strong draws.