PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.25 BB (9 handed)
UTG+1 ($58.95)
MP1 ($24.05)
Sploob ($17.50)
MP3 ($29.10)
CO ($8.85)
Button ($4.50)
SB ($8.25)
BB ($30.05)
UTG ($8.75)
Preflop: Sploob is MP2 with
![The Five of Clubs [5c]](https://pofex.com/images/smilies/5c.gif)
![The Six of Clubs [6c]](https://pofex.com/images/smilies/6c.gif)
1 fold, UTG+1 calls $0.25, 1 fold, Sploob calls $0.25, 1 fold, CO calls $0.25, 1 fold, SB raises to $0.5, 1 fold, UTG+1 calls $0.25, Sploob calls $0.25, CO calls $0.25.
Flop: ($2.25)
![The Jack of Hearts [Jh]](https://pofex.com/images/smilies/Jh.gif)
![The Ace of Clubs [Ac]](https://pofex.com/images/smilies/Ac.gif)
![The King of Clubs [Kc]](https://pofex.com/images/smilies/Kc.gif)
SB bets $1, UTG+1 folds, Sploob calls $1, CO folds.
Turn: ($4.25)
![The King of Hearts [Kh]](https://pofex.com/images/smilies/Kh.gif)
SB checks, Sploob checks.
River: ($4.25)
![The Ten of Clubs [Tc]](https://pofex.com/images/smilies/Tc.gif)
SB bets $6.75 (All-In), Sploob calls $6.75.
Final Pot: $17.75
Results in white below:
SB has Ks Kd (four of a kind, kings).
Sploob has 5c 6c (flush, ace high).
Outcome: SB wins $17.75.
OK, putting on my professor's hat, I'm trying to spot where I went wrong. Please give me your thoughts...
1) Pre-Flop - I was in MP with the little suited connectors, and fancied a shot. I would fold if the flop didn’t fit. When SB mini-raised should I of folded? 7-1 odds, why not I thought?
2) Post-Flop – Right, scary flop that the SB chased off everyone else. And I called for the flush draw, 3.25-1 immediate odds. But I felt SB only had Ax/Kx/QJ and definitely no spades, so I thought if I caught my flush, I’d win. But I’m not good at calculating effective odds, was it the correct call against someone with 2 pair, Trips?
3) Turn – The killer card, K, and SB coolly checks it. Of course I checked too, since I haven’t made my flush. I thought he had Trip Ks at most. Thinking now, I should of worried about him making a boat at least.
4) River – The flush card comes, and I don’t stop and think long enough, so I call his all-in bet. I just quickly thought he only had trips or a straight.
So……..when would you semi-pro’s have laid it down? Pre-Flop, Flop? There would have been no way of betting/raising that I could have done to have pushed him off the pot. Should I count myself lucky he only had $8 to start with.