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JJ in UTG

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Poker Stars, $0.02/$0.04 Limit Hold'em Cash, 10 Players
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Preflop: Hero is UTG+2 with J J
2 folds, Hero raises, MP1 folds, MP2 3-bets, 5 folds, Hero calls

Flop: (7.5 SB) T 9 3 (2 players)
Hero bets, MP2 raises, Hero calls

Turn: (5.7 BB) A (2 players)
Hero checks, MP2 bets, Hero calls

River: (7.7 BB) 9 (2 players)
Hero checks, MP2 bets, Hero calls

Results:

Spoiler

9.7 BB pot (0.2 BB rake)
Final Board: T 9 3 A 9
Hero mucked J J and lost (-4.5 BB net)
MP2 showed K A and won 9.5 BB (5 BB net)

Villain was 20/5 from 126 hands


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firsttsunami
Joined: 23.01.2006

what you should trying to avoid is:

when you don'T have the initiative , you should not donk out on this flop. initiative means that you've put in the last bet preflop but since mp2 did reraise and you did just call, you don't have the initiative and without the initiative you generally check the flop as you'D also check the flop with KQ AJ AK AQ. hands you don't wanna be donking with. when you start donking pairs and checking AK AQ and some overcards, your play becomes really transparent. so the only reasonable play is: 100% check flop and check/call with overcards and checkraise with hands like AT+.

Preflop it's basically a cap but its necessary to sometimes show up strong overpairs when you did just call a reraise preflop.

as played you are committed to bring your hand to the showdown. reraising the flop is not a good idea. people on lowlimits sometimes raise with just AJ AQ AK on the flop (though its pointless) but given his 3bet preflop and the fact that he's supposed to rather raise a pocketpair, you don't beat any reasonable pocketpair he could have reraised with preflop. 99 and TT got a set and against QQ - AA you just wanna be calling down too, investing as less money as necessary.

Ax sucks on the Turn since Ax has improved and you don't beat that much but against a fairly unknown guy who could have raised the flop with maybe some worse hands like KJs KQs i dont know - i don't see a chance to get off your hand.

but as mentioned above: You have to initiative => You do your continuation bet

you don't have the initiative => You check 100%


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