[NL50 6max] Advices on 2 hands

[Tsicafrou]

Hi,

I'm asking for your help about two different hands which are worrying me. I don't think they're well played but I'm interested in your opinion, you experimented short handed holdem players :-) .

Here they are :

<u>1st Hand :</u>

Cryptologic
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.25/$0.50
6 players
Converter (http://www.neildewhurst.com/hand-converter)

Stack sizes:
UTG: $57.30
Tsicafrou: $48.75
CO: $59.65
Button: $31.75
SB: $41.75
BB: $58.70

Pre-flop: (6 players) Tsicafrou is UTG+1 with K/images/graemlins/heart.gif K/images/graemlins/club.gif
UTG folds, <font color="#cc0000">Tsicafrou raises to $2</font>, CO folds, Button calls, SB calls, BB folds.

Flop: 5/images/graemlins/spade.gif 7/images/graemlins/heart.gif 4/images/graemlins/heart.gif ($6.5, 3 players)
SB checks, <font color="#cc0000">Tsicafrou bets $6</font>, Button calls, SB folds.

Turn: 9/images/graemlins/spade.gif ($18.5, 2 players)
<font color="#cc0000">Tsicafrou bets $24</font>





<u>2nd Hand :</u>

Cryptologic
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.25/$0.50
5 players
Converter (http://www.neildewhurst.com/hand-converter)

Stack sizes:
UTG: $17.05
CO: $23.35
Tsicafrou: $65.05
SB: $11.10
CO: $59.65
BB: $63.15

Pre-flop: (5 players) Tsicafrou is Button with 9/images/graemlins/diamond.gif 9/images/graemlins/heart.gif
UTG folds, CO calls, <font color="#cc0000">Tsicafrou raises to $2.5</font>, SB folds, BB calls, CO folds.

Flop: 5/images/graemlins/heart.gif 2/images/graemlins/diamond.gif 4/images/graemlins/diamond.gif ($5.75, 2 players)
BB checks, <font color="#cc0000">Tsicafrou bets $5</font>, <font color="#cc0000">BB raises to $12.5</font>, Tsicafrou calls.

Turn: 5/images/graemlins/spade.gif ($30.75, 2 players)
<font color="#cc0000">BB bets $20</font>, Tsicafrou calls.

River: T/images/graemlins/diamond.gif ($70.75, 2 players)
BB checks, Tsicafrou checks.



So, all your advices and critics are welcome !

Edit : Hand converter used

[Nemesis69]

Use handconverter tnx!

[whyherro]

1 st hand is standard, second hand im not sure, sometimes I drop it on the flop, almost always dropping it on the turn

[thijsr]

fold turn on 2nd hand, first hand is indeed standard

[Lostit]

Agreed with everyone on the second hand, drop it on the turn, no need to put that much money on the line with a mediocre hand.

The first hand, I'd like to see you bet less there and here's why. The button only had $31 to start with, so you put him all in with that bet. Is he likely to call with a draw? I doubt it. I think you just made a bet that forced him to play the hand correctly and thats -EV. Also that 9 only helped pocket 99's. Any other hand that it helped, was already ahead of you (86), so I don't fear that card at all. I'd like to see a bet more in the $14 range. See if he'll keep chasing, and also only leave him with $10 behind on the river, with a $50 pot on board. You're basically committing him and I think he's much more likely to put in money with an inferior hand this way.

[Worm75]

1st hand is standard. Would help if we knew stats for the 2nd hand. Readless I'm dumping it on the turn. With this check on the river I'm expecting JJ/TT here quite a bit, but no way you fold him with what you have left by betting river.

[LiveNow]

how is the first hand standard....he's overbetting the pot. Obv fold turn on 2.