Richard~

I 6 tabled low stakes cashgames today. Lost about two buyins, anyone playing these three hands differently?

First hand after getting all the tables up. I raise 56s from middle position and get two callers and great, I flop a small flush. Villain checks to me, I bet 3/4 pot something, call. turn goes check, bet, call. and then river check, bet, minraise, call. He turns over the QK of spades and I loose a fairly big pot right away.

A few minutes later I limp in with Q10s from the button with two limpers behind me. Flop comes Q107 and a player behind me pots it, I call in position. Turn comes [Q107][k] putting a flushdraw on the table, villain checks, I bet, and he raises me 2,5 times my bet. I think for a while and then makes the call since I can't see any reason for him to pot AJ on the flop although I'm a bit scared that he managed to outflop me with 7s or limp QK. Finally river comes [Q107K][10], he checks, I V-bet half the pot and get my last chips shipped back at me once again. I'm already pretty pot commited and even if I wasn't I had a hard time thinking I was beat. I make the call and he turns over K10 =/

Final hand I'm playing shorthanded. I'm in the small blind with aces. It's folded to me and I limp in. flop comes J1010 and it goes check, bet, call. Turn comes [J1010][10] and I'm thinking that if I run into quads now I'm gonna call it a day. I bet, he calls. River is a rag and I bet half the pot, he calls and turns over JJ Giving me a headache. I've never seen slowplayed aces vs slowplayed jacks in a 4 handed game before.

DrTyore

Your hand selection PF is quite poor

If you're going to play these hands, you have to play better post-flop. Sure, some of that is just cooler hands, but you'll save more money by avoiding some of those hands.

Mark

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Richard~

I've been trying to learn cashgames for the past week or so, normally I play only SnG's and mtt's. I'm up 12 buyins in a week so I must be doing something right but I really thought these hands played themselves postflop. Guess I'll study cashgame strategy some more

JohnnieH

Quit your bitching and learn to live with variance.

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Cerberus

Not sure I'd call this bitching as he wasn't really bellyaching about anything, just asking if anyone would have played them different. It would help to know the stakes, whether he had notes/reads on anyone, etc, but for the most part I'm inclined to say it's just poker. I don't have a problem with you playing hands like 56s or Q10 from position. You even played them to hit the flop and did. Only problem was the other guys hit the flop better. The 56s, I say good job not going broke on a weak flush like most do. The Q10, meh, that sucks but that hand is pretty much playing itself. The only one I didn't like was AA, but that particular instance with the bb having JJ, doesn't really matter what you bet, he's calling to see the flop since it's A-short handed and B-heads up. Good on ya for gaining the extra 10 buyins though