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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Here's my explanation.
Last night I was playing 9-18 at Commerce Casino. I was up a rack or so ($300) playing super-tight aggressive for a few hours, when the following happened.
I limp in with A-4 suited (bad, I know, but I'd been getting no cards; I got 3 pocket pairs, all lower than 8-8, in 5 hours). Pot is raised by Mr. super aggressive who was up a few racks. Lots of limpers, I call.
FLop comes Q-6-4, rainbow. Checked to the raiser, he bets, I call. Down to 3 players. Turn comes a 6. Checked to the raiser. He bets. I check-raise. He calls. Other guy folds
River comes a 10. I bet, he calls. With pocket 5s.
Three hands later, I pick up A-K under the gun. Aggressive guy raises. I three-bet, and somebody else caps it. Flop comes K-J-6, again rainbow. I bet, aggressive raises. I three bet, he caps. Four players in the hand.
Turn comes a 2. I check to Mr. Aggressive. He bets, I call, as does everyone else. Huge pot now.
River comes a Q. Check, Aggressive bets, I call. He shows A-10.
Boom, there goes my $300 in profit in two hands. We both left the table soon after, in very different frames of mind.
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In low-limit, you should only be staying in hands you are reasonably certain you are going to win, and you should be betting them hard. 9-18 should yield pots in the $3-$500 range, and it's to the level where most players will only keep calling the bets of others on the turn and the river when they have good hands. On the last hand, you three-bet before the flop, then check the turn AND the river, only to call him. That telegraphs weakness to me. Big time. And a pair of kings, even with an ace kicker, sucks in a ten-handed game. Especially, with three inside to the straight sitting on the board.
I would say that you can play higher limit if you can afford it, because it gives you a chance to actually use betting to push people around a little when you are in good position, but I think that you need to practice more. Especially practice reading people more and understanding what they are doing and what they might have. You should not move beyond $3-$6 until you play all the time there, are comfortable, and will generally be winning most of the pots you are staying in until the end on.
