Beat in a live game and new here

Hello all. This is my first post on a poker forum and I was wondering what others thought of this hand I was playing at a live game at a casino that I frequent around town.

I had been in the game about two hours at this point and had been playing pretty tight. This was a $1-$2 NL 9 handed table. I was in middle position and had raised it up to $15 pre-flop with As Js. I had two callers and here came the flop. Kc 5s 7s. I check and a bet of $20 followed by a call. I decide to raise all in for $180 more to make it a $200 pot. One caller to the left of me for all of his chips which were about $120 and a fold. We flip our cards over and he shows me a Kd 2d. I was pretty surprised none the less that a pre-flop raise was called with such a marginal hand. What are your thougths? By the way, I lost the hand. A 10 came on the turn to give me a total of 16 outs but none came my way. And oh yah, I was down to $60 in chips but worked my way back up to a profit of $400 that night. So let e know guys!


Edit: Just to let you know, he snap called me also. Instantaneous.

Comments

  • your C/R is a pretty obvious flush draw. I'd probably call you with K2 here as well. You should cbet here since you have a big draw and were the pre-flop aggressor. Also it disguises your hand. It's pretty ahrd for K2 to re-raise here.

    Yeah villian's preflop play was God awful, but most players at live 1/2 have no idea what a raise means. they go to town with TP so often that you really have to improve your hand or have a better hand to ship here.
    My fav thing about 1/2 is that they think TP is the nuts. GL.
  • pretty big overbet on your part.... good call on his part (assuming he had a read on you). Not sure why you are pushing all your chips in the middle on a draw after playing tight for two hours?

    btw, never play w $60 in front of you.
  • The bet of $180 or so for a pot of $65 and I probably call there to figuring your drawing. You almost never have the K there.

    His call pre was loose, but I've saw worse. People like hands like this, suited cards with 1 being the K or A so they can draw to big flushes. They generally get into trouble though as the hands are easily dominated if they do hit top pair instead of the flush.

    Anyway, I lead flop represent that you aren't affraid of the top pair. K2 will probably call as it would be really hard to raise there (if they do, you can either fold or jam showing strength). If they only call, you can re-evaluate on the turn if you want to barrel down.

    I bet the other player had like A7 or something, maybe a flush draw counter-fitting at least one or two of your outs.
  • cool hand,

    what's your first language?
  • Your hand reads a big draw, you over bet soo much its like you dont want action, but getting a call by k2 is prob good, you have a good shot to make money, also you only had 15 outs, 9 spades, 3 aces, 3 queens, as Q spades is counted in your spade draw. If i were you I would either have made a cbet or call the flop and bet out almost any turn. I find that play has been very profitable for me, you take control of the hand and pot size there. 1/2 is generally really weak, I almost wont play it anymore as I tend to find you need to make a hand to make money as no one will fold.
  • I appreciate the input people. This will def help me to understand the game a little better. Another hand I lost with recently was Ac 9s in the big blind with a raise of 3x. It was a freeroll qualifier tourney with loose plays. The raiser was the big stack and I was second. Flop came 10c 9c 8c. A huge drawing hand with mid pair. I bet out 300 (blinds were 75-150 and my stack was 7800.) he raised me to 666. I reraise to 1800 and instantly am raised all in. At this moment I know I'm behind. I called and lost the hand to two pair 10's and 9's. My question is, in a loose game like this and with the opportunity to become the commanding chip leader against relatively inexperienced players was that the right decision? Should i have folded after I knew I was behind? atm I was thinking I had 14 outs and with the nut flush draw I was praying for a club. All the input is appreciated!
  • You have a big draw yes, but a lot of hands also hit this board, so knowing you prob arent gonna get a flop in a freeroll with a flop like this you might as well control the pot size by just calling his and seeing if you make your hand.
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