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Fredlem

What did I do wrong?

Hand Analysis

Hello everyone, this just happened to me in a local TURBO tournament

I was at 2/3rds of the starting chip count just before the first break. I have J Q off suit and call the raise. The flop is: ? 5c Jh everyone checks down then I go all in, in late position thinking I could steal the pot. Wrong. Everyone folds apart from the guy right of me who calls with 5, ? and then he makes trip 5 on the river and I'm out.

I feel looking back on the hand if I made a pot sized bet after the flop maybe he wouldn't have called because MAYBE me going all in made him super greedy??

I just don't know.... any thoughts?

(I am a beginner sorry)

Posted Aug 19, 2019, 8:09 PM UTC

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tdfitch•

If I was you I’d try to fade the 5 on the river

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READMARXREADLENIN•

Doesn't sound like you really did anything wrong. A guy made a bad call and drew out, it happens.

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pjcortazzo204•

Sooo many people that this kind of thing is an inherent part of playing any kind of poker. Being a 3:1 favorite does not meant your are unbeatable. Bad beats and suck outs happen, and not that many players seem to understand its part of playing.

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READMARXREADLENIN•

I try to think of my big wins like end of year bonuses and my value derived from making smaller pots I win just a little bit bigger than they shoulda been as my actual pay so to speak. Worked out for me so far. Took my focus off my bad beats and edge cases and put it on refining good habits and strategy.

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pjcortazzo204•

I’m with you and agree. Just feel like most of the skill in the game is deriving when you’re the favorite in the hand and then getting your money in the pot when you are the favorite, along with other people’s chips.

Unless you’re bluffing, that’s obviously a different story.

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Bumblebee_assassin•

You got it in good, he got it in bad, he then got lucky. You did nothing wrong here, I'm also guessing you were about to get blinded out, you had to be short stacked, any memory of what the blinds were or how many you had left? Regardless it sounds to me like it was the right play

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arkayic•

You got it in good, so you were in a situation you should always want to be in.

Only one nitpick - I am assuming since this is a Turbo, you are not that deep and shoving here makes sense in relation to the pot. The reason I say this is because you say "I could steal the pot" which makes it sound like you're trying to get everyone to fold with what is likely the best hand at the point. You should be trying to get called by worse with a hand like this, which you did. Not really a criticism of play, more of mentality.

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Emi_Ibarazakiiipre•

If you know he's going to call with a 5, then you definitely want to move all in; You're a huge favorite.

If you want to keep playing poker, better be prepared to lose a lot of pots when you're the favorite, and even more when you're the underdog.

That's just poker.

Now, about whether or not you did something wrong, we'd need to know stack sizes/blinds and all that to know for sure, but the fact that the 5 hit on the river doesn't mean you did anything wrong.

You don't control the cards to come. Unless you paid the dealer to give you trip 5 but he mixed up the hands.

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SrDoubter•

like any tourney, when you go all in with cards to come, most times you are at risk of being eliminated.

you find a way to limit those positions from your tourney play and you are set.....cant lose a tourney if you are never at risk :)

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