Both hands were last night on the $25 NL tables at Paradise. (BTW: low-limits Paradise is VERY different from Prima. People raise a lot and they go all-in a lot. No passivity at all. Wait for big hands and get paid off -- you will get paid off. People cannot wait to re-raise all-in with their QQ overpair after you check-raise them with your set.)
Hand (a): Get AA OTB. UTG raises to 5x, folds to me, I raise all-in. Called by SB, called again by original better. It's AA vs KK vs QQ, and the QQ sucks out a river Q to take down a $73 pot.
Hand (b): Get
![[Kc]](https://pofex.com/images/smilies/Kc.gif "The King of Clubs")
[Js] in LP and limp in. Flop is QTx with two clubs. Someone bets the pot, I decide to flat call for some reason, we're heads-up. Turn brings the third club but not my straight. He bets small, I sense weakness and fear of the clubs so I raise (more than a minraise), he thinks and calls. River brings an offsuit 9 giving me the straight. He checks to me. I think, and think, and think. I decide he's almost certainly not on a flush. But I think he might fold if he doesn't have the flush and re-raise me all-in if he does, so I wimp out and check behind. He shows QT for top two on the flop. He definitely would have called off a few more dollars. He might have called off the rest of his stack, in fact -- Paradise is full of big bluffers.
So here's why I think I'm improving. After I was done playing, I obsessed over hand (b), and NOT about hand (a). I'm becoming less results oriented, and more about making the right plays.
