$2 NL HE 6-max: Hero in Small Blind with Pocket Jacks

[beazer76]

Game

Hold'em

Game Format

No Limit

Stakes

$.01/$.02

Table Format

6-max (6 seats)

Currency

$

Hello Cardschat , im Beazer, learning poker and beginner poker player.

How would you play this hand NL2?

Thanks from beazer.

Thanks for the posts on previous hands I've posted yesterday and last week.


NL Holdem 0.02(BB)
HJ ($3.39) [VPIP: 28.1% | PFR: 20.7% | AGG: 27.1% | Hands: 142]
CO ($2.56) [VPIP: 23% | PFR: 19.4% | AGG: 31.1% | Hands: 263]
BTN ($2) [VPIP: 23.9% | PFR: 21.1% | AGG: 29% | Hands: 115]
HERO ($2) [VPIP: 16.4% | PFR: 12.5% | AGG: 35.9% | Hands: 5460]
BB ($8.84) [VPIP: 34% | PFR: 18% | AGG: 32.1% | Hands: 54]
UTG ($0.74) [VPIP: 13.3% | PFR: 6.7% | AGG: 10% | Hands: 47]

Dealt to Hero: Js Jc

UTG Folds, HJ Folds, CO Raises To $0.06, BTN Folds,
HERO Raises To $0.18,
BB Raises To $0.60, CO Folds,
HERO Raises To $1.02,
BB Raises To $8.84 (allin),
HERO Calls $0.98 (allin)

Flop ($10.90): 5c Ad 3d

Turn ($10.90): 5c Ad 3d 2h

River ($10.90): 5c Ad 3d 2h 2d

BB shows: Kh Ks

BB wins: $3.86

 

[Aballinamion]

Hello Cardschat , im Beazer, learning poker and beginner poker player.

How would you play this hand NL2?

Thanks from beazer.

Thanks for the posts on previous hands I've posted yesterday and last week.


NL Holdem 0.02(BB)
HJ ($3.39) [VPIP: 28.1% | PFR: 20.7% | AGG: 27.1% | Hands: 142]
CO ($2.56) [VPIP: 23% | PFR: 19.4% | AGG: 31.1% | Hands: 263]
BTN ($2) [VPIP: 23.9% | PFR: 21.1% | AGG: 29% | Hands: 115]
HERO ($2) [VPIP: 16.4% | PFR: 12.5% | AGG: 35.9% | Hands: 5460]
BB ($8.84) [VPIP: 34% | PFR: 18% | AGG: 32.1% | Hands: 54]
UTG ($0.74) [VPIP: 13.3% | PFR: 6.7% | AGG: 10% | Hands: 47]

Dealt to Hero: Js Jc

UTG Folds, HJ Folds, CO Raises To $0.06, BTN Folds,
HERO Raises To $0.18,
BB Raises To $0.60, CO Folds,
HERO Raises To $1.02,
BB Raises To $8.84 (allin),
HERO Calls $0.98 (allin)

Flop ($10.90): 5c Ad 3d

Turn ($10.90): 5c Ad 3d 2h

River ($10.90): 5c Ad 3d 2h 2d

BB shows: Kh Ks

BB wins: $3.86

Our 3-bet preflop is good. However, when the player in the BB 4-bets to 3.3x versus our 3-bet (villain is putting 30 BB preflop in order to win 9 BB when we/hero fold), we must fold right away.
Players at the micros don’t own a 4-bet range for bluff, 95% of times you see a 4-bet is for pure value.
Okay that we own JJ and this hand plays fine, but in the best case we are flipping versus some Ax, which is clearly not the case.
Call a 4-bet when villain raises your 3-bet to 2x, 2.2x, 2.5x maximum. More than that only go to 4-bet pots when you have KK+ and AKs.
Where we should’ve been folding, you made a 5-bet and I must tell you this is not a tournament game! Players aren’t going with air preflop most of times.
As I said before, at the micros, most of players don’t own a 3-bet and 4-bet range for bluff, so be smart and learn to fold these good hands when villain is screaming that it has a monster.
Villain screams it has a hand that has us beat when it 4-bets to 3.3x! Learn how to read bet sizing and the meaning of them and you will get out of a lot of bad spots.
Most of weak players at the micros think that both 3-bet and 4-bet should be of 3x, and this is not. When we 4-bet to 3x or higher, we are committing 30% of our stack, i.e, when we 4-bet to 3.3x we are certainly jamming, going all-in.
Once we put 30% of our stack at stake we aren’t folding to anything, we are going no matter what.
This is why we use a 4-bet sizing of 2x or 2.2x, thus we don’t commit our stack preflop and sometimes we can fold to a 5-bet jam, e.g, when we are in a deep stack pot, facing a NIT, we 4-bet to 2.2x holding AKo and NIT/villain 5-bets/jams to 3.2x. We are certainly folding.

 

[Andyreas]

Hi,

I don't play a lot of cash-games but what I've seen in the micros so far is that if anyone 4-bets, they usually have it.

So I'd put him on a range of QQ+ or AKs and you'd have to fold here.

With your 5-bet, you're already commited to the pot but definitely can be sure to be behind when he 6-bet jams.

Overall, always a bummer to bump into a higher PP but I think you could have gotten away from it. 🤔

Anyway a tough spot for sure and I also learned how to fold the high pocket pairs the hard way. 🤣