stoomart

It does, well said.

I think bet sizing is one of my weaker skills, but wouldn't you generally want your semibluffs and value bets to look the same? Does it depend on the street?

Seems like he has 2 pair, low set, BD flush, or a small straight, I wouldn't call with 1 pair. You gave up on the river, no reason to lose more chips on this hand.

I'd cbet pot and fold to shove (likely set or top 2pair), bet 1/2 pot ott if you pick up a decent straight draw or FD, otherwise check/fold.

I agree it's a donkbet if used regularly, but can be an excellent weapon when you drill the flop, specifically when in early position with a preflop aggressor in last position or directly to your left. Definitely not a "standard line" though.

I don't see much value in check-raising the flop with a small limped pot, I usually only do that if I can get my whole stack in on the flop. Definitely if you had made a 1/2-full pot bet pre-flop with lots of callers, which is why I won't play limped pots with a nutty hand.

The only other option here is expecting a big bet, I would do a small min-1/3 pot bet with the hopes of slowing things down to catch a cheap 6 OTT or to find the sets/higher wraps. This play can only succeed if you play the same line when you flop big hands OOP and shove over a raiser. Either way you would be folding any raise here, so you got out the cheapest possible way.

I don't like the 3bet preflop from SB; better to call the raise, call BB 3bet, fold to 4bet. This is a check-raising hand OOP when you hit instead of a leading hand, especially on this board...you will win small pots and lose the big ones. Definitely a bad shove on the flop for reasons @miami002 gave above, and with giving away so much information about your hand preflop.

You have a 1 outter to the nuts with 10s, definitely check with not hitting one of your sets and a K being out there with two pre-flop bet callers in position.

I'd suggest reading a couple books to get the fundamentals (playing coordinated cards, throwing away non-nut draws, made hand protection, throwing away dominated made hands, etc) while you are getting familiar with the game. You will learn why the fundamentals are important (usually the hard way). Edit: Poker is a more like psychiatry or war because of the human opponent element, whereas surgery is like working on a car or flying an airplane.

This "checklist" becomes instinctual and isn't something you literally refer to.

I don't think this works for any kind of poker...there are just too many variables to take into account (players, position, stack sizes, action, momentum, cards, etc). Developing a good 'feel' for the game is required to be good, which comes through study and practice.

If you really like this hand on the flop (I think it's a clear fold), your best move is to bet 1/3-1/2 pot into the PFR if you think they will slow down and see a cheap turn, but definitely fold to a raise. Note: this works best if you play your big hands the same way, only coming back with a pot reraise/shove.

BN let you do the betting for them and got it all in with the nuts OTT, can't ask for a better situation, except to also have the nut heart draw.

With bottom two pair, you should really see this flop as only drawing to a backdoor nut flush, a very weak heart draw, and RR quad 7s/5s. 1/3-1/2 pot bet/call on the turn for a cheap river, then check/call the river bet with the 3rd best hand.

Start with Rolf Slotboom's book; excellent short/medium/big stack play analysis with all the fundamentals tucked in: http://a.co/5RBWZqy

I think it's a bad bluff because you are beat by several hands that would play this way and call you (AhsKK, QQ, JJ, Q9, J9, Ahs9).

2 pair is too weak to be check-raising into possible sets and flush/wrap draws. I would cbet the flop 1/3-1/2 pot (calling any raise), check/fold to any completed draws on the turn, otherwise bet pot if no draws get there; make them pay dearly to see the river.

This bluff usually only works with backdoor flush runouts, which can be very profitable if you have enough pot equity (top set) to call made-straight bettors; you got very lucky here.

You want to see the flop cheap with any suited A, so raising pre-flop is the problem here. I will call any pre-flop raise with suited As whenever I can close the betting.

Flat call preflop is fine, but I think waiting until the turn to bet your middle set was a mistake; SB had a decent non-nut flush draw and likely would have laid it down after two barrels.

Not for $9, they likely hit the nut straight, cheap enough to look them up.

That makes sense. I'm used to playing mostly MTT PLO, which is generally tighter play. Almost done going through Slotboom's book to get the hang of playing shortstack cash games.

You have showdown value, just check it and move on to the next hand. You are only beating 2 pair and lower sets now (best case); a small bet will seem weak, opening the possibility of getting bluffed, whereas a larger bet will get called by a mediocre player with bottom straight or top set...clear check.