I am not sure that I played these correctly. I am trying to cut down on calling/raising when I am probably behind, but I think I may have taken it too far and am returning to my tight weak roots.

1)http://www.pokerhand.org/?600146

I was correct in betting the flop right? I had a small overpair, but it was a multiway pot. Should I have bet something like $3.50 instead of $5 so I could just take it down right there? In hindsight, I guess I should have reraised him given the board. He probably had a pair of nines, and thought that the flop missed me. I didn't want to stick in a lot of chips with just a pair of tens.

2)http://www.pokerhand.org/?600157

I think I played this one ok, the flop call was to keep the pot small. I think he was probably raising with a flush draw that he made on the turn, or he may have made the straight. I called the turn bet because I had the king of diamonds, and it was a smallish bet. Do you think I should have called the river here?

hand 1:
I bet about 6-7$ on that flop and fold to a raise

hand 2:
bet like 5.50$ on that flop, and fold to a raise.

Hand #1

Your bet's fine. Nothing you beat's calling any more and nothing that beats you can raise it. I'd take any raise to $11+ seriously and dump it. I wouldn't want to, and heads-up, I might go to the felt as the pusher with A9 let alone tens. But multi-way, you're hand's dead.

nld, sir.

Hand #2

On the flop, take the same line as you did in Hand #1, but bet a little more like $5.50 or $6. I'd take the check-min. raise seriously, though. From the line you took, it's a good call in potential because you don't make a ton of hands on the turn, but you do have backdoor re-draws and the 2 Kings along with the possibility that you have the best hand.

The turn's an easy call. The river's tough. All you can beat is AJ and QT that'd make any sense. Getting 4:1, I'd call. Harrington's 10% blufing quotient, the little that you DO beat, and seeing his cards are the value here. I wouldn't rule out TT or 99. Your play justifies AK or AT with the dblgutshot ( ). Call. It sends a cheap message that you don't see monsters under every bed, if anything.

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