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    Default I suck at poker

    20nl 6-max

    - spoonitnow sitting in seat 1 with $22.60
    - silver1210 sitting in seat 2 with $20.35
    - of_chance sitting in seat 3 with $54.50
    - girtss sitting in seat 4 with $14.83 [Dealer]
    - ywnc78 sitting in seat 5 with $22.87 [Sitting out]
    - Ishii sitting in seat 6 with $50.85

    Ishii posted the small blind - $0.10
    spoonitnow posted the big blind - $0.20
    ** Dealing card to spoonitnow: A Q
    silver1210 called - $0.20
    of_chance folded
    girtss folded
    Ishii called - $0.20
    spoonitnow bet - $1.10
    silver1210 called - $1.10
    Ishii folded

    ** Dealing the flop: 2 9 Q (Pot: $2.40)
    spoonitnow bet - $1.50
    silver1210 called - $1.50

    ** Dealing the turn: 3 (Pot: $5.40)
    spoonitnow bet - $3.30
    silver1210 called - $3.30

    ** Dealing the river: A (Pot: $12.00)
    spoonitnow ...

    Villian has about $14 behind and I have villian covered, but a few things.

    1. I think I'm totally fucking up with my flop and turn betting, in terms of it not being hard enough. Is potting the flop and 2/3rding the turn more appropriate here?

    2. On the river, is a check/call best, or should I value bet? The hand feels like a smaller queen or maybe JT, but there's the freak chance for a made flush. I don't feel like by making top two on this river that I can get away from a set or a flush, though I think most of the time a set would of raised the turn. Seems like a check/call loses the least when I'm behind to a set (they probably won't stack off here), and possibly gets JT to try to bluff the flush.

    Bleh I suck at poker.
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    Id bet $2 on the flop and closer to $4 on the turn, but your bets aren't really bad.

    Any reads on your opponent? what sort of hands would he be calling down with? As played against most opponents I would push, but this may be a mistake on my part.
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    Since flop is so raggy it's WA/WB, hence bet isn't terrible. However, with bigger raises river would be easy push as villain would have less than PSB left.

    As played, I check/call, I'm not sure what worse hands you get value from (unless you know he's an idiot, then obv push).
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    Is value betting like 5$ really gay here? We cant go much higher because I think it would scare villain away here. If he has the Q, the ace is a huge scare card for him, if you check, he checks? If he has J10 if you bet he folds, if you check he...bets or checks (read needed here).

    That said I choose option 1 = gay 5$ bet because it says something like "I have a Q but am afraid of the aces as well" so he might call.
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    Villian actually called down with middle pair and made runner runner flush, but me wondering if I should check/call river wasn't really being results oriented. The idea spawned from me originally wondering if my betting on flop/turn was ok.

    Thanks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Alexos
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    Is value betting like 5$ really gay here?
    i suppose it is if spoonitnow is giving me a handjob while he makes that bet.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Renton
    Quote Originally Posted by Alexos
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    Is value betting like 5$ really gay here?
    i suppose it is if spoonitnow is giving me a handjob while he makes that bet.
    Kinda funny that I'm probably the only guy on here that's taken it in the ass yet you get all the gay jokes.
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