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So, after living in London for 9 months and doing nothing all that constructive, I've moved to Val d'Isere in the French Alps for the winter. I've got myself a job driving airport transfers and should be moving into my permanent accommodation in the next few days. We're getting a metric ton of snow right now which is amazing for this time of year, if any of Europeans were considering a holiday, now should be cheapish and the snow is phenomenal.

I went to Vegas for the first time in early November on a family holiday and LOVED it. Got to play for about an hour and a half at $1/$3. Sitting down at a table with $300 was a big deal for me, having previously only played micros online and live tournaments for around £5 to £20. I walked away with £401 so I was quite pleased.

After discovering I couldn't just boot up my usual Stars account over here in France, I've jumped through the various hoops to get an account activated on pokerstars.fr and am ready to start anew with 100euros. Will be interesting to play in this reduced player pool of frenchies. Im aiming to improve my game a lot, will be trying to play as much as possible between driving and skiing, and posting hands ive struggled with. Wish me luck!

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Submitted by : DhakhaR

Table #15924362 - STT #9859222
Starting Hand #779971074
Start time of hand : 27 Apr 2009 00:27:13
Last Hand #779970414
Game Type: HOLD'EM
Limit Type: NO LIMIT
Table Type: TOURNAMENT
Money Type: TOURNAMENT CHIPS
Blinds are now $100/$200
Button is at seat 1
Seat 1: DhakhaR - $4,925
Seat 6: Tat2me - $4,075
Moving Button to seat 6
Tat2me posts small blind ($100)
DhakhaR posts big blind ($200)
Shuffling Deck
Dealing Cards

Holecards(Odds)
Dealing to DhakhaR
DhakhaR: lol Q3 bs Q2
Tat2me says good luck
DhakhaR: vs*
Tat2me raises to $400
DhakhaR says good luck
DhakhaR calls $400

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $800)

   
DhakhaR checks
Tat2me bets $800
DhakhaR calls $800

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $2,400.00)

   
DhakhaR checks
Tat2me bets $2,875 (all-in)
DhakhaR calls $2,875
DhakhaR shows
Tat2me shows

River (Pot : $2,404.00)

   
Tat2me has Flush, King high
Tat2me wins $8,150 with : Flush, King high
DhakhaR: LOL
Seat 1: DhakhaR - $850
Seat 6: Tat2me - $8,150
Tat2me cheers
DhakhaR: wtf
End Of Hand #779971074

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Ok so basically this situation seems to crop up quite alot nowadays for me, both IP and OOP (although its more taxing when OOP for obvious reasons).

im grinding out some micro-stakes $0.02/0.04 6max. i will be dealt a hand like KQs and will raise PF OOP or ill raise IP to get rid of the idiots limping in with J7o. (These PF raises may be a leak in some peoples eyes, im unsure).

flop will come 25Q and ill bet pot with one caller. turn will be a blank (10 for arguments sake), ill bet pot villain calls again.

at this point i dont know what to do. IMO the river card is irrelevant as the villain has called twice so must already like his hand. im ruling out draws either because of a non drawy board or because of the 2 pot sized calls. my problem is that when i am IP and the villain checks to me for a 3rd time often i will check behind, scared of the fact that he has c/ced twice and called the raise PF. additionally a 3rd PSB at this point is basically an all in which makes me uncomfortable given i dont know where i am.

However the problem comes in that sometimes i am beaten by two pair or whatever, but equally as often they show up with some bullshitty hand like Q8 and i could have extracted the full value.

i guess my problem is that people are such idiots at microstakes that i cant figure out what theyre on as a call is a call to them, irrelevant of bet sizing, position etc etc. i would feel much more comfortable in this spot at a live game etc.

i know this is slightly whiney and theres no actual hand example (which is why its in Blogs, not Low Stakes) but could anyone offer some advice on this. would it be +EV to get that final value bet in?

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