PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalance Small blind £0.10£0.10£44.79 Big blind £0.20£0.30£32.27 Your hole cardsKJ Fold robbie1992Raise £0.60£0.90£63.81Fold Call £0.50£1.40£44.29 Raise £2.00£3.40£30.27robbie1992Call £1.60£5.00£62.21 Fold Flop 6J10 Bet £5.00£10.00£25.27robbie1992Call £5.00£15.00£57.21Turn 5 Check robbie1992Check River 3 Check robbie1992Bet £5.20£20.20£52.01xCall £5.20£25.40£20.07robbie1992ShowKJ xShow x £24.13 £44.20
2 QUESITONS
1. is this a bad call pre, his TAG and i thought its a good spot to squeeze, im in position and ahead of alot of his squeezing range,
2. is it a value bet on the river, and if it is have i gone to small?
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Comments
Against a tight player, I think this is a fold pre-flop. Against a loose player I think it's better to 4-bet than fold. The things I'd want to know if I was going to call would be that this guy c-bets too often on all kinds of flops and then gives up on the turn, allowing me to take it down with a bet. Obviously playing fit-or-fold on the flop is going to be very bad - We can't, in most circumstances, make big pots with our one-pair hands and be winning and we obviously lose a bundle from all the times we miss and just fold to a c-bet.
The reference to squeezing should only be as a bluff. If we've seen him 3-bet a raise and a call before, it's not a squeeze if he had a big hand. We should want to have seen that he had weak hands when doing this for the read to be useful. We also need to think that he's doing this reasonbly often and not just giving himself an image that he can take advantage of.
You need to think about your own image: You've raised in early position and if your image is one of a tight player and if your opponent is a good, thinking player, you shouldn't be expecting him to squeeze light in this situation too often. If you'd raised the button and the small blind had called, that's a much more classic situation for him to squeeze from the big blind because both you and the small blind can have weak ranges.
(Actually it looks like you were five-handed and raised from the cut-off. It's hard to tell because you deleted all the aliases. Don't do that btw. It just makes things confusing. Give them pseudonyms instead.)
Having made the call, I like the way you played it post-flop. Would you be calling the turn if he barrelled it?
HMM yeah i suppose they wouldnt squeeze if they thought i was loose but this is 20 nl so theres alot of mistakes here isnt there. If i 4 bet here though and the flop comes how it does what do i do? arnt i just setting myself up to just lose pot control and feel uncomfortable in a bloated pot which i dont want to bluff aT?? ......i think against some opponents i call the barrell but not here his line looks very strong i think