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#1 trystero

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Posted 06 October 2008 - 05:01 PM

$25 nl 6 maxstacks are all the usual, I have max and villains cover or are close. SB has played kind of weak/tightish, probably like 30/10/1.5, but that's only an approximation - we've played probably 100 hands together.Hero is dealt [ 8 :diamond: 9 :club: ]three limpersSB completesHero checksFlop [8 :club: 9 :spade: T :heart: ]($1.25)SB bets $1Hero raises to $53 foldsSB raises to $14Hero foldsWhat do you do in this spot? I mean it looks like a standard fold. OTF you have to raise, correct, but then it seems like you're only receiving further action from better two-pair combos, sets, or straights. I guess it's just one of those hands where you have to punish passive draws / top pair and fold to serious resistance.

#2 mtdesmoines

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Posted 06 October 2008 - 07:02 PM

View Posttrystero, on Monday, October 6th, 2008, 5:01 PM, said:

$25 nl 6 maxstacks are all the usual, I have max and villains cover or are close. SB has played kind of weak/tightish, probably like 30/10/1.5, but that's only an approximation - we've played probably 100 hands together.Hero is dealt [ 8 :diamond: 9 :club: ]three limpersSB completesHero checksFlop [8 :club: 9 :spade: T :heart: ]($1.25)SB bets $1Hero raises to $53 foldsSB raises to $14Hero foldsWhat do you do in this spot? I mean it looks like a standard fold. OTF you have to raise, correct, but then it seems like you're only receiving further action from better two-pair combos, sets, or straights. I guess it's just one of those hands where you have to punish passive draws / top pair and fold to serious resistance.
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#3 krup24

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Posted 07 October 2008 - 04:48 AM

View Posttrystero, on Monday, October 6th, 2008, 9:01 PM, said:

$25 nl 6 maxstacks are all the usual, I have max and villains cover or are close. SB has played kind of weak/tightish, probably like 30/10/1.5, but that's only an approximation - we've played probably 100 hands together.Hero is dealt [ 8 :diamond: 9 :club: ]three limpersSB completesHero checksFlop [8 :club: 9 :spade: T :heart: ]($1.25)SB bets $1Hero raises to $53 foldsSB raises to $14Hero foldsWhat do you do in this spot? I mean it looks like a standard fold. OTF you have to raise, correct, but then it seems like you're only receiving further action from better two-pair combos, sets, or straights. I guess it's just one of those hands where you have to punish passive draws / top pair and fold to serious resistance.
when hands like this arise i tend to tell myself not to go broke in limped pots with coordinated boards vs a hand out of the blinds. folding still feels painful but it's really not. if you hold T9 it can be a bit more complicated.ipits
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#4 SGFULTON83

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Posted 07 October 2008 - 09:17 AM

Just say NO to bottom 2, in this situation anyway.

#5 MetalFingers

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Posted 07 October 2008 - 09:19 AM

Fold...this is a limped pot and 67, J7, JQ are all extremely possible options for villain here. Also, given villains re-raise to just under 3 times your flop raise, i feel like he is asking you to call with anything lucrative here. As mtdesmoines said as well: you need to know something about villain to play this hand and after playing about 100 hands together you should be forming a decent idea of what type of player you believe him to be.

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Posted 07 October 2008 - 12:38 PM

Edit: Nevermind.

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Posted 07 October 2008 - 12:40 PM

What would you do with TPMK or TPCK here? That's essentially what your bottom two is. If you're going to raise, yeah, it's a fold. Another option is a flat with position on the bettor. Yeah, you may get squeezed by one of the others, but that's okay. I just prefer to play my bottom two carefully here and wait for an equity jump on the turn to re-evaluate.
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