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I don't hate the call but I still lean towards folding.

I think river is a check as tom said. With no blockers to QQ or JJ, and since you have the both the Ac and Kd I think he had a lot less draws that he calls with here. I guess it's up to V if he's calling with JJ or QQ, because that's almost certainly what he has.

I don't have an answer, but wouldn't the proper play be for V to raise OTF if he had a set? Because of how many terrible turn cards there are?

I personally think just judging from Vs sub 100bb stack you should fold. I can't imagine he does this with anything worse than a FH. If he's actually just 100% terrible, he could have like A9/K9/J9/T9. But his line is fairly passive, and then he 2x overbet shoves.

Agree with brokenstar. Is he really double floating here with a naked king? Way too many draws on this board for me to ever want to consider folding this river.

Fish is strong when he min raises. I very rarely see fish minraise without something close to the nuts.

Is there any way you can switch to 2nl? Or do you have graphs showing that you smashed the stake so you moved up?

I'm a US player, and I found I played ignition way worse even though the games are "easier", just because of the money. $5 isn't a lot, but if you run that up to $20 in a session that can be a 20% increase in your bankroll, and losing it is super disheartening. I just found that it's much easier to play 2nl, because I don't have to worry about a downswing ruining my chances to play good poker. I'm a college student and don't currently work, so bombig $200 is a lot.

With that sizing on the river I'm really tempted to call, but I think V shows up with every combo of QJ, A4, K4s maybe if he limps suited kings, all straights and most flushes. So I think this ends up being a X/F OTR.

How come you didn't 4b this pre? Should be the second easiest 4b of your life.

Cry and fold river. Raise flop next time to charge his drawing hands. He's a fish and wants to gamble and you lost a lot of money by not raising.

Agreed. Call and reevaluate turn.

Agreed

Fold OTT. He has all sets, QKs, maybe 87s. Idk what he would be bluff raising here.

Would it be check/call flop, bet turn, and check back river? Or do you think betting the river in this spot is the most +EV decision?

Well, the plus side to all of this is it really opened my eyes to how terrible I am lmao. I never thought I was THAT bad, better than your average fish. I guess I really need to focus on studying more, and doing it properly.

I mainly stay away from theory, and just watch live play and pause throughout the video and make decisions, then see if they made the same decisions as me, and if not, hearing why they made that decision. Steve Paul and Paul Atwal both do a very good job at talking through their decisions, only issue is a lot of it doesn't apply at the micros. Mainly bluffing after missed draws, and a lot of plays made to balance a range. I think my biggest issue is lack of volume. I've probably only played something like 15k total hands. I've read through a bunch of modern poker books, watched tons of theory videos that I can understand, looked into math, browsed poker forums daily for the last year just going through HH, I just haven't really sat down and committed to putting in volume and studying at the same time. Trying to change that now. I think in the mental game of poker he related poker to driving, you can read all the books you want on driving, and study all the laws, but until you actually go out and drive, you won't know what it's like. No clue why I went on this tangent, but I don't feel like deleting it now that it's typed out lol. Definitely going to check out that dudes channel though, because RIO lacks a lot of micro videos. Paul Atwal is really the only pro who has micro limit videos.

That's the gameplan. Planning on spending a few days every week not playing at all, and just going over hands and reading theory/watching videos here while taking notes. Like I said in an earlier post, I just started taking learning the game more seriously.

Lol whoops. I just always thought donk betting meant betting first into a pot OOP.

I should have rephrased how I said that. I've been working on paying more attention to stealing/defending more on button steals. Obviously I didn't shoot up in skill overnight, but I think being more aware of a potential issue has helped me work on what I need to improve. I was only playing something like 9% of hands from the BB which I think is a huge issue. It could be due to the small sample size, but I think that being more aware that I've been overfolding to steals has made me play at least a little bit better/aware from the BB/SB.

How do you feel about X/R OTF? And would you say donking is the best bet here? I usually refrain from donk betting, so I don't really know when to do it.

I've been working on defending blinds more, and stealing, and it's brought my win rates up. Still down, but my red line isn't crashing as hard anymore. And I know the sample is small, but I remember hearing you can spot major leaks in 2kish hands, so I didn't know if that was the situation here. Thanks for the indeptj reply!

How deep was he? 25BB? I don't have much experience in MTTs, but if he is only shoving AKo+ and any PP we only have 37% equity with AK . And if he is only shoving 88+ and AKo+ it's 41% equity. Obviously if you were short stacked, say 15BB I think it's a snap call, but being so deep, it's just not worth it. Still a chance I'm wrong though, because like I said I don't have much MTT experience.

I think shoving AKo with 35BB left is a mistake. I think if you're short <15BB it's on okay shove, but you're flipping too much, when you can just raise, and maybe call verse a jam from a short stack.

lol variance is killer. Ran into this exact same spot just now, but I think I played it more optimally. It was runner/runner though for both jacks so it made decisions a bit easier. Still got slammed by quads.

Checking is fine OOP. If hero was IP and be checked, that would be an issue.