Analyse my hand please

Pokertime1234567

Hi

Firstly, am I okay to post requests to analyse my hands. If not, I will desist from now on.

I find that after a couple of hours of play I have neither gained nor lost any money. What advice can be provided to help me to start making some gains?

Second question about my hand. I am fairly new to poker and so have taken the advice from others on this forum and have moved down to NL 10c/25c until I get better.

My hand is below, pocket Aces. Did I play this right?

$25 USD NL Texas Hold'em
(Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 8: S8 ( $5 USD )
Seat 1: S1 ( $5.10 USD )
Seat 10: S10 ( $47.17 USD )
Seat 2: Me ( $15.03 USD )
Seat 5: S5 ( $5.13 USD )
Seat 9: S9 ( $21.36 USD )
Seat 3: S3 ( $4.55 USD )
Seat 7: S7 ( $4.85 USD )
Seat 6: S6 ( $23.14 USD )
S3 posts small blind [$0.10 USD].
S5 posts big blind [$0.25 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Me [ Ah Ac ]
S6 folds
S7 folds
S8 folds
S9 folds
XX has joined the table.
S10 folds
S1 folds
Me calls [$0.25 USD]
S3 folds
S5 checks
** Dealing Flop ** [ 2h, Kh, 5d ]
S5 checks
Me checks
** Dealing Turn ** [ Jc ]
S5 checks
Me checks
** Dealing River ** [ 4s ]
S5 checks
Me bets [$0.25 USD]
S5 folds
Me does not show cards.
Me wins $0.82 USD

Thanks

Paul

compuease

Ummm, no? You made the minimum and exposed yourself to losing your stack... What would have happened if your opponent made "2 pair" or something better and re-raised you all in on the river? Would you have called? See what I mean. At this level, raise pre-flop to what ever you think will get 1 or 2 callers. If by some chance you get no callers, then it just wasn't meant to be, or you raised too much.

Pokertime1234567 wrote: »

I find that after a couple of hours of play I have neither gained nor lost any money. What advice can be provided to help me to start making some gains?
Paul

Don't force it, poker is one long session, you may not get anywhere for a while, then all of a sudden, bang you make a big gain... Especially in a cash game. That's the nice thing about a cash game, since the blinds don't go up you can afford to be patient and pick your spots... Without more definitive info that's about the best advice I can give.

STR82ACE

Lesson 1: Limping with pocket aces bad! NEVER NEVER limp! If you're going to enter a pot, you should always raise 3x or 4x bb, especially with aces.

Lesson 2: PLAY POKER! You check flop, check turn, then min bet river? You don't like money? You gave him every oppurtunity to suck out on you, and you got lucky he didn't.

You won the absolute least amount you possibly could. If you're looking to make gains, make bets. Its the only way to make money in poker. Being a calling station will only label you as someone to make money from, not someone to be feared.

Lesson 3: Asking for hand analysis should never be questioned. This IS a poker forum, although at times, it doesn't appear to be.

Lesson 4: If you're new to the game, I urge you to read some strategy articles and/or books and get involved more. It appears you're playing scared, and that can be smelt online by the sharks a mile away. Learn to be aggressive, study odds charts, and depending on your bankroll, start small. I have no issue with someone with minimum roll playing the lowest levels if they want to learn the game. If you're playing .1/.25 NL, I would hope your bankroll is at least a couple of hundred dollars, and even then that's not enough. Some will disagree here, but you want at least 20BI's to play the level you are playing, so at $25 buyin levels, you want $500 in your account MINIMUM.

Lesson 5: BANKROLL MANAGEMENT! Not near enough can be said about proper bankroll management. Learn it. Its not JUST how much money you have to play with, its about using it properly to play better.

Thus ends the lessons for today.

jdAA88

I completely agree with the posters above. From the looks of this hand, I think you need to move down to either .02/.05 NL or .05/.10 NL until you have a more solid pre-flop game. You need to read up on proper strategy and watching some training videos would help as well.

Beersteve

I don't think you could have played the hand any more wrongly.

First off, always raise with Aces. Reraise someone else's raise. With aces you have to make it expensive for those with marginal hands to call. If it you raise it significantly enough, you should know your opponents still in the hand have decent hole cards (depending of course on the style of player)
By not raising pre-flop, you allow players with marginal hands to limp in, and if the flop comes down 6c-8s-9s you are probably screwed as now someone will most likely have a straight and/or flush draw, because they limped in with 10-7s for example.

Ditto the other posters as to after flop/turn/river strategy.

ReefAquarium

Move down to .01/.02NL

Preflop.
Raise/reraise with TT+, AK+

after a raise and a reraise shove all in with KK, AA

pokrgod

Always raise with AA? I definitely wouldn't agree with that as a general rule. I've been playing a lot lately at Cascades in Langley and there are a ton of over-agressive players there. If UTG or early position against oponents like this, I've started to limp knowing there's a raise and possible re-raise out there before coming back to me. I'd say 99% of the time that happens. Great way to play and can still shove pre-flop when the action comes back to you (almost always with 1 or 2 callers). I agree totally that Aces shouldn't be played multi-way cheap for anyone but sometimes drawing some money into the pot isn't a bad idea either. It really depends on the players at your table. Once there's some money in the pot though, it's time to put some pressure on those opponents and not let them draw to their hands.