Gentlemen, if you've been following nickycakes' posts, you will know that he is following the "beginner's strategy" from Lem0n36's course. It's clear to me that what he's asking here is whether this is a correct fold according to the basic principles of that strategy, and the answer to that question is "yes".
I understand that in this particular situation, there are some reasons why we might want to call, which is why I said that Berezovaya was game theoretically correct, but advice like "Since you have a backdoor, at least one call is required" is not going to be at all helpful. Backdoors aren't even mentioned in the strategy nickycakes is following, and if he starts calling raises whenever he has a backdoor, he's going to lose a lot of money (relative to his limit). For Berezovaya's comment to be helpful, you would need to add a huge explanation about balancing our b/c range, avoiding being exploitable, assigning ranges to unknown villains and what we propose to do on the turn. And that still wouldn't be helpful, because none of those (apart from how to play the turn) are things nickycakes need to understand to beat NL5.
Any way, CPallo has the right of it. Limp-call-minraise is a strong line: villain almost never has "junk" and only occasionally has a draw or worse TP (both of which would usually be played passively). If you're going to be snobbish about NL5, you probably shouldn't be commenting on an NL5 thread. That is how the villains play and we should have the corresponding game plan.
The following comment from Lem0n36 seems relevant (second comment, second page of the course thread), both as to how the strategy works and as to sensible refinements to make as we improve:
Originally posted by LemOn36
Yes, no limit beginner strategy has 100% cbet, bet/fold strategy and it's good against people that
- call too wide preflop
- fold too much on flop with their wide range, and then are reluctant to fold on turn+river
- don't pay attention to what you are doing
Characteristics that are typical for the smallest limits - you don't have to double barrel, or check raise on turns, you simply bet and keep betting your strong hands and strong draws, bet flop and check fold your thrash hands including midpairs. It's not optimal, but it's a strategy that will yield the most success against most opponents at NL2/NL5 while keeping simplicity.
As you get better and are more familiar with complex situations, that cbet% will drop, as you
- Check fold boards with weak hands that hit opponents range strongly
- Stop cbetting mid strength hands pretty much completely as you'll start learning what to do against a bet
- Develop a multi-street range based gameplan where you try to protect all your lines, make use of range advantage, play with range disadvantage and aim not to be exploited and exploit your opponents.
I think at NL10 optimal cbet% vs the population should be around 60%-65% on average - people still will fold too much, but you should start to
- give up hands with no backdoor draws on boards good for your opponents, especially out of position
- Use bet flop check call turn line with a lot of medium strenght hands that can't get 3 streets (like TPNK, 2nd pair) vs people that float you. (to check fold river, most NL10 regs are way too passive there) etc.
- Start using delayed cbet in position + check back with showdown value hands etc.
