You were on the SB. I hope that you didn't pay anything to see that flop. If it limped to you 3-way, 4-way then you would have pot odds to call with pretty much any two cards. In that case you could see a flop with that hand.
Flopping 2nd pair out of position you would check and hope for check around or at worst call a small bet. Although by the looks of your stack you should be check-folding.
Same thing for turn when hearts comes in.
Lovely river bust still risky with those hearts on the table, but you are ahead of fluke 2-pair.
So I take it that you won a smallish pot here? In that case I would say that you played just fine. However, if lots of money was being thrown down on multiple streets then it would generally say that you played it poorly and buttlucked the river.
Flopping 2nd pair out of position you would check and hope for check around or at worst call a small bet. Although by the looks of your stack you should be check-folding.
Same thing for turn when hearts comes in.
Lovely river bust still risky with those hearts on the table, but you are ahead of fluke 2-pair.
So I take it that you won a smallish pot here? In that case I would say that you played just fine. However, if lots of money was being thrown down on multiple streets then it would generally say that you played it poorly and buttlucked the river.
As others have said, we need more than just a screenshot for proper hand analysis. Its not even clear to me, if you actually played the hand, or if the screenshot is some kind of rabbit hunt. I can however see the size of the blinds, which were 60/120, and I can see the stack sizes. And based on that information I would not play junk from SB.
The player in BB had 5 times as many chips as you, so you can not push him around, and for that reason you should just walk him, unless you have a decent hand. If the stacks had been reversed, so that you had 5 times as many chips as BB, and especially if it was on the final table or near the bubble, then you can play any two cards, if it folds to you in SB, and basically be a "chip bully" to BB. But I would still not enter the pot with 62o with any action in front of me.
The player in BB had 5 times as many chips as you, so you can not push him around, and for that reason you should just walk him, unless you have a decent hand. If the stacks had been reversed, so that you had 5 times as many chips as BB, and especially if it was on the final table or near the bubble, then you can play any two cards, if it folds to you in SB, and basically be a "chip bully" to BB. But I would still not enter the pot with 62o with any action in front of me.
While its true, we get better pot odds, when there are more players in the hand, we also have less equity, and in this situation there is less overlay from the ante, which would be the main reason to even consider playing junk from SB. Its also more difficult to play out of position against multible opponents than against just one, so we will realise less of our true equity.Semprini said:
Against just the BB, we can stab with air, and we can also stab with a hand like second pair or check-call. But against multible opponents we pretty much have to give up with a hand like 62o, unless we flop two pair or better. In order to complete from SB against limpers we need to have something more playable like a suited or connected hand, that can flop some draws, or a hand with high cards, that can flop a decent top pair.
And this is why, completing with a hand like 62o (against limpers) is not profitable, because we only flop 2 pair or better like 5% of the time or something. And even then its a very low two pair, so someone else could end up making a better two pair, and its easy for us to get counterfeited by a paired board. And if we flop trips, we could be outkicked. Junk hands offer a lot of reverse implied odds, even when they flop "big", and thats part of the reason to avoid them.Semprini said: