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patti United States. Sep 16 2011 05:35. Posts 550

I don't think I've improved in a really long time am a bit upset. It never really was for the money but to truly get better at this game. I play really tight and just beat on the fish. Shooting fish in a barrel. I vbet when I have the best hand, check when I'm unsure or feel like I can catch up and fold the worst of it. I play in position as much as possible.

I've tried to figure out this game myself and unfortunately have cone as far as I could. Graciously I ask for advice.

I am playing 1/2 attempting to open more hands and play trickier spots.

I isloate 3 limpers with KQo late to 17 with 200 starting stack. BB calls who I truly consider a good reg aa he is fearless and makes plenty of moves. He imo has a great feel to when his hand can get to sd, and turns a lot of hands into bluffs. As long as he isn't raised I see him tripple barrel a lot, I really like his game. Random fish limper calls

flop is QT7 with a flush draw. I cbet 35 into about 45 (looks like the bet is too small but live dynamic is a bit diff than online althougj I prob could bet more). Good reg calls and fish folds.

Turn is an 8 which also brings a flush. Villain leads for 60 into 120 ish with about 120 remaining.

My assumptions
- villain is good enough to bluff here and will follow through on river
-villain can hand read
-my range actually is tighter on such a drawy board, I'm not cbetting as much air as I normally cbet. I'm checking all my Tx here and cbetting Qx or better as well as all my 8 out draws, as well as suited Broadway 3 flushes (as in gutshot and backdoor draw)
-i believe villain to be checking Qx hands on the turn and leading pair Plus draws, flushes, straight draws. Basically nut/air.

Knowing this a call is obvious with a bluff catcher like Qx. Or any random pp I happened to cbet as a bluff. But how do you APPROACH how do u guage how many draws he has here? If it s a pi graph how do I know its 30 percent flush 70 percent air? Or 80 percent flush 20 percent air?

I felt so exploitable in this spit esp with live timing / physical tells and felt my hand to be face up. I know I can flat some flushes here too but I didn't feel like I looked like I ever have 1 here. As a side note ill say that I think most ppl here just raise their flushes to instinctively and that's why tricky reg does this. When flagged it is like a

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