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🟥 Bad Beat or Misplay? 🂡

River killed the pot or you leveled yourself into a hero call? Let’s break hands down together. Post the full line, run the math, and decide if it was a true bad beat or a misplay.

🎯 What to Share

• Stakes & stacks: blinds, effective stacks in bb.
• Positions: who opened, who called, who 3-bet.
• Hole cards and board street by street.
• Actions with sizes: bets in bb or % pot on each street.
• Reads: tendencies, recent showdowns, timing tells.

🧮 Quick River Check

• Pot odds: required equity = call / (pot + call). If villain bets 60% pot, you need about 37.5%.
• Range compare: list value hands, bluffs, and blocker effects. Ask if worse value calls and if missed draws exist.
• Combo sanity: count realistic combos, not all theoretical ones.

🧪 Handy Template

Game: NL25, 100 bb eff
Preflop: CO opens 2.2 bb, BTN calls, Hero BB calls A J suited. Pot 7.1 bb
Flop: J 7 3 — Hero checks, CO 3.5 bb, BTN folds, Hero calls. Pot 14.1 bb
Turn: 8 — Hero checks, CO 9.5 bb, Hero calls. Pot 33.1 bb
River: Q — Hero checks, CO 22 bb (66% pot). Decision?

✅ How We’ll Judge It

• Line logic: did your earlier streets set up a tough river?
• Sizing: were bets sized to deny equity and get value from worse?
• Exploit vs GTO: did you adapt to pool tendencies or fold the solver’s thin spots?

Drop your hand with positions and sizings. We will tag it as bad beat or misplay and suggest a cleaner line.

Enter Cash Lobby

💬 Post your hand below and tell us your thought process on the river. Then sit down and apply the fixes at NL2–NL10.

[Jappy]

If villain jams that big oop on river Im folding aj

[Bright13]

 Blockers are meh and that sizing screams nutted line or shove vs missed draws

[Thu Aung]

1 hour ago, Bright13 said:

 Blockers are meh and that sizing screams nutted line or shove vs missed draws

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[0xRaj]

If you had AQs or JJ maybe call, but AJ no

[Maris_Bosco]

Just now, 0xRaj said:

If you had AQs or JJ maybe call, but AJ no

It save the stack for better spots

[Virat]

13 hours ago, 0xRaj said:

If you had AQs or JJ maybe call, but AJ no

At least that 

[Magic]

14 hours ago, Maris_Bosco said:

It save the stack for better spots

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[Lu Lu]

Misplay for me 100%, pool barely bluffs that river 

[СуперМен]

57 minutes ago, Lu Lu said:

Misplay for me 100%, pool barely bluffs that river 

Agreed turn sizing is warning asf, that 2/3 on the river def QJ or KQ

[Felo_Bui]

Tbh real mistake is preflop here

[Torres]

20 hours ago, СуперМен said:

Agreed turn sizing is warning asf, that 2/3 on the river def QJ or KQ

That a huge sing 

[Stan]

19 hours ago, Felo_Bui said:

Tbh real mistake is preflop here

Preflop is always a mistake unless you have AA or KK

[Felo_Bui]

21 minutes ago, Stan said:

Preflop is always a mistake unless you have AA or KK

I think the same, preflop in general is something that doesn’t payoff a lot, but sometimes you have to do it 

[Султан]

4 hours ago, Felo_Bui said:

I think the same, preflop in general is something that doesn’t payoff a lot, but sometimes you have to do it 

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[beeeef]

AJo OOP multiway is such a headache

Just squeeze and print.. you fold out garbage and isolate BTN

On 11/29/2025 at 4:46 PM, Felo_Bui said:

Tbh real mistake is preflop here

 

[NoRiskNoWin]

11 minutes ago, beeeef said:

AJo OOP multiway is such a headache

Just squeeze and print.. you fold out garbage and isolate BTN

 

Exactly, when you flat you invite this gross spots push till 12bb and let it play ☝️