DON'T POST RESULTS!

When you post the results, the discussion is stained by that "results oriented" thinking that comes with clicking a spoiler.

Whether or not you won or lost this hand is not important. Whether or not you would win or lose if you played this exact spot many, many times is what matters. Over many hands, you will win some and lose some, but it's the overall play that matters.

Please take to heart that posting results pulls the focus away from good play and into "perfect" play. Perfect play assumes we can see Villain's cards, and that's not poker. Perfect play is something we can talk about only after the hand is over, and it doesn't really help us to put that hand in the context of the many hands and boards that Villain may play in a very similar fashion.

Quote Originally Posted by matiusaa View Post
How would you play this hand? do you think I did something wrong?
We'll get into that in a bit. The most glaring thing you did wrong was say that your villain is unknown. We'll work on that first.


Quote Originally Posted by matiusaa View Post
opponent was unknown, no info on him
OK, so tell me about villains, in general, on this site, at these stakes, in this format.
What broad characteristics would you use to describe the player pool?

How do you tell a weak player, of whom you want to take advantage, from a strong player, of whom you should be wary?

Each of these things should tell you something about your villain:
His stack size
His position
His weak open PRE
His button-mashing bet-sizing POST
His x/r OTR

So what does each of these things tell you? If you don't have an answer for all of them, that's OK. Just start where you can.

Remember that poker is a game of outsmarting people. The cards are mostly a prop to distract the fish.

If you haven't ever really thought about Villains in this way, then tell me what your own range of hands might be to play in a similar fashion. I.e. a weak open from UTG, followed by a button-mashing C-bet, and a turn C-bet, then a x/r OTR.
Would you ever use such a betting line? What does it represent?