Weeeeee!! Me luvs poker again. Played another 1k hands late last night, up 1.5 BI's. BR > 2.3k. Here are some things I know:

1. This month, I'm 5.5 ptBB/100 over 6k hands of 50nl 6m.
2. I'm playing well again (despite small sample, my game is actually getting better!).
3. I still REALLY suck at poker, and most of my suckiness relates to bigtime desire to gamble "with the right odds" in big pots. Problem is, when I tilt or even just get tired, I twist my reads around so I get "the right odds" to throw my bankroll away.
4. I am learning to think out poker problems on my own, to develop innovative approaches to my game, finding leaks and exploiting others.
5. I still need to post more HH's, 'cuz the downside of #4 is that I often wait too long to get other perspectives on my games and hands. People here at FTR think really differently about poker, and some of the contrasting ideas that used to simply confuse me now highlight new avenues of poker thoughts I can use to try to sort out better lines and different approaches when I do come across leaks.


Regarding #5, here's a HH where I ran into a tough problem. The SB is a 40/18 LAGG w/ 15% 3bet (mostly in the blinds) over 100 hands. The BTN is a decent TAGG w/ a 40% BTN steal% over 500 hands. So both of their ranges are well behind JJ. With position on the SB and his smaller stack size, I'd be willing to stack off w/ JJ. If the BTN were short, too, I'd just shove all-in. Any help preflop would be much appreciated, 'cuz I was confused as heck about what to try here.


$0.25/$0.5 No Limit Holdem
6 players
Converted at weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG ($45.10)
UTG 1 ($51.10)
CO ($107.00)
BTN ($136.70)
SB ($24.50)
Hero (BB) ($58.85)

Pre-flop: ($0.75, 6 players) Hero is BB
3 folds, BTN raises to $1.50, SB raises to $5, Hero raises to $12, BTN calls $10.50, SB calls $7

Flop: ($36, 3 players)
SB goes all-in $12.50, Hero calls $12.50, BTN folds

Turn: ($61, 2 players)

River: ($61, 2 players)

Final Pot: $61 - Results in white below.
Hero shows: Jd Js:
SB shows: Ah Jc