This is easy, right?

Ok, am I making the right play? I 've only played a about a hundred hands with SHMONYA but seen him raise this amount with JJ+, and SCs; Haven't seen AK or AA yet, but have seen $3 raise with AJ. Has a Tagg style thus far. Should I have checked on the river or pushed, or was this bet a good idea to save what chips i had left to go get a happy massagey from ling ling if i lost. I'm a rookie, so any advice would help.

AP: HOLDEM NO LIMIT $1

Button - DBLACK ($162)
SB - SHMONYA ($144)
BB - SABBY ($35)
UTG - FACEBLASTER ($126.85)
MP - DUCE68 ($35.45)
CO- THE1WIZARD ($277.70)



Preflop: FACEBLASTER is UTG with [4s 4d] -
SHMONYA Posts small blind $0.50. SABBY Posts big blind $.1 FaceBlaster Calls $1. 3 Folds. SHMONYA Raises $4.50 to $5. 1 Fold. FACEBLASTER Calls $4

Flop: ($10.50) [Qd 4c 6h] (2 Players)
SHMONYA Bets $8, FACEBLASTER Raises to $16, SHMONYA Calls $8

Turn: ($42.50) [Qd 4c 6h] [3s]
SHMONYA - Checks, FACEBLASTER Bets $20, SHMONYA Calls $20

River: ($82.50) [Qd 4c 6h 3s] [3d]
SHMONYA Checks, FACEBLASTER Bets $50, SHMONYA Calls $50

Raise more on the flop, bet more on the turn, get all-in as smoothly and quickly as you can without overbetting. Raise around 3x his flop bet, that changes the hand very much.

Also, if you are a rookie, why are you playing 100NL?

100 NL is easier to me at absolute, players are more predictable than at 50 and 25.

good reason to play 50 or 25

Originally Posted by sandstorm

Raise more on the flop, bet more on the turn, get all-in as smoothly and quickly as you can without overbetting. Raise around 3x his flop bet, that changes the hand very much.

Also, if you are a rookie, why are you playing 100NL?

I agree that not raising to 3x on the flop is probably the biggest problem with this hand. Though you risk him folding a certain percentage of the time with a larger raise (probably not very often, since he was willing to call a RR on a non coordinated board), like sandstorm said the turn and river bets can be sized bigger and therefore make it get yourself AI without having to overbet. Plus, a bet of $50 with only ~$30 behind looks strong, and might be tough for a hand weaker than 4-4-4 to call.

Your opponent must've had K-K or A-A. I don't think A-Q would call those turn and river bets unless they thought they had a strong read. If that is true, even with the way the hand was played you probably could've gone AI and gotten a call.