NL Day 2

[Grunch]

Glad you're enjoying NL, Jake.

I'm just going to expand on what others have said.

Hand 1. What would you have done if the turn was a non-board-pairing brick, but the action were unchanged? That is,turn comes J, you bet, opponent check-raises. Your action? This is an important question because this happens waaay more often than what actually happened in the hand. And you need to get this right. Take it from an old limit guy. This is a hand that you could be suceptible to getting wrong becasue of your limit background.

Hand 2. Re-raise PF, but not becasue of the value of your hand. Sure you may be ahead of this LAG's range. But the real reason why you re-raise is becasue of you bad postflop position. Re-raising gives you the chance to end the hand PF and gives you a little more FE postflop if he calls anyway by overrepresenting your hand a little. The obvious downfall to re-raising is that you're building a pot OOP with a marginal 1-pair hand, but this is a pretty marginal spot anyway. You gotta do what you gotta do.