MLET Challenge: Creemore Springs

[Guruman]

ok, my thoughts:

wookie nailed in in that you've got a co's opening range crushed and should get as much value in as you can right now because you wont get paid as handsomely by a 2+2r postflop as you will by a standard fish.

Get your value in on the streets in which you possess it in general. Then use position and aggression to force folds when you miss. This is going to be especially true vs at least half of the table you're at.

So this hand should have gone

pf: raise, threetown, call.
flop: bet, call. (or possibly bet, raise, threeball, call)
turn: bet, call.
river: bet, fold.

preflop affects the entire dynamic of the hand, and in your case it affected you quite negatively.

given a preflop call, this is how the action should have gone:

preflop:raise, call
flop:check, bet, raise
turn:bet, call
river: bet, fold.

alternatively,

preflop: raise, call (i still hate it against all but the most hyperspewy types)
flop: check, bet, call.
turn: check, bet, raise, call.
river: bet, fold.

the sum of that is that your preflop play caused you to miss out on a possible 2 sb's postflop, non inclusive of the 1 sb preflop that you passed on initially. Also, given that you did just call preflop, your flop/turn line cost you 1 to 2 more sb.