weird hand

[Fnord]

Raising here is terrible.

Meh, I've only seen villain play a big pot thus far with a lock hand, and he seems passive so if he's going to continue I probably get to see both cards. If I hit the low part of my double-gutter it's obviously worthless if he has a 9, but it certainly adds to the showdown value of my hand. Plus I don't want those multitabling nits who have position on me to be playing back at me. Ok so my equity against his range sucks, but lets just ignore that for now.

It's a draw heavy board that didn't look like it hit you. You have so little fold equity on this flop. I'm all for playing air, but you got to know when it's going to cost a lot of money to follow through. This isn't limit where you can just toss bets out on every street and fold him out cheap on the river when he doesn't get there. I think a key to taking a pot from a missed draw is keeping it small and then putting in that last bet.

It's perfectly ok to blind steal on a couple tighish looking players, then wimp out when everything goes wrong and the pot is still pretty small. Trying to win every pot you enter with a raise costs too much money and is exploitable.

Catching perfect is fun. Nice value bet, although I wonder about $112 behind when the pot is $128 if called. Do you really want to play for stacks here?

That was the plan at the time. What's your turn line here? I was actually going to bump it up more and stick the rest in on most rivers.

Not sure. Just an observation on pot size. Pot manipulation is still a growth area for me.

Jd Td.

I had a bad feeling the way this went down and was more pessimistic on your chances, re-read my post and edited it. I was thinking split and JT without 2 clubs just didn't fit the action well enough.