Classic violation of small hand small pot.
Party Poker
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.50/$1
6 players
Converter
Stack sizes:
UTG: $80.39
UTG+1: $153.64
CO: $196.70
Hero: $192.25
SB: $99
BB: $289.94
Pre-flop: (
6 players) Hero is Button with K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]
UTG calls,
2 folds, <font color="#cc0000">Hero raises to $5</font>, SB folds, BB calls, UTG calls.
Flop: 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 2[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (
$15.5, 3 players)
<font color="#cc0000">BB bets $20</font>, UTG folds, <font color="#cc0000">Hero raises to $50</font>, <font color="#cc0000">BB raises to $80</font>, Hero calls.
Turn: Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (
$175.5, 2 players)
BB checks, Hero checks.
River: 9[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (
$175.5, 2 players)
BB checks, Hero checks.
Results:
Final pot: $175.5
This is possibly one of the worst hands I've ever played, and couldn't believe what I was doing WHILE I was doing it. For some reason, I love pairs of jacks because I never think another person has AJ or better or something along that line.
Even worse, this villain was a TAG/nit!
I raised preflop because first limper was something like 80/20 and I wanted to isolate.
On the flop, I thought he was trying to steal it away, so I make a pretty donkish raise (as I'm giving good odds to a flush draw anyways). When he minraises me back, I'm thinking "Crap what the hell am I doing betting 50 here? And since he minraised, I felt I had to call (again, some sort of horrible decision, esp against this nitty villain).
I'm just lucky I got this free showdown.
<font color="blue"> Edit: On second notice, this guy was quite LAG preflop, but relatively tight and aggressive post flop. It's still a clear error. </font>