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[Scott3705]

6 handed NL .25/.5UTG calls (very tight player, but tight/weak almost)Folded to be on the button with 10 10. I raise to 2.00SB Calls (he had really just sat down)UTG raises to 7.50. ( my read is he has a bigger pocket pair than me)But i call. just wanting to see what happens.SB Calls.FLop AK10 rainbow. Good for me cause I flopped a set but the board is kinda scarey for me given my earlier read....UTG bets $2.What do you guys do here?I probalby played it very weak, but I just called.SB callsNext card 8UTG bets$2. I call again. ( thought about raising here cause I thought he might have had queens, but I was also concerned with the SB limping along and calling everything). Like i said... i think i played this too weak. River 8CHECKED to me? I actually figure I have the best hand now? and made a stupid bet on the river of like 1/2 the pot. They both fold???? ( Bet was stupid cause i'm only getting called by hands that have me beat except for maybe if the SB had limped and flopped the str8.)

[Vade]

That's an exceedingly weak flop betThat probably signals some strength, but I'd still raise him back.If he truly has a higher pair, he's only ahead of you 50% of the time, you have to buy some information, especially with that other hand in therePop back on the turn alsoI like your river bet, it's not a dumb bet, because you're ahead here the majority of the time, with only KK and AA as problems

[Scott3705]

Vade said:

That's an exceedingly weak flop betThat probably signals some strength, but I'd still raise him back.If he truly has a higher pair, he's only ahead of you 50% of the time, you have to buy some information, especially with that other hand in therePop back on the turn alsoI like your river bet, it's not a dumb bet, because you're ahead here the majority of the time, with only KK and AA as problems

I was thinking about raising him back, but the only reason I didn't was because the pot was so big already. Something like 26, so I would have had to put in atleast 15 just for information. My first instinct at the flop was just to try to get to a showdown as cheap as possible. with the way it played out... the only hand that I could have put him on with the preflop raise was QQ. And QQ probably isn't gonna call. So I still think my river bet is awful. Maybe he calls with AK, but why check it on the river?

[Vade]

Eddie's right, straights that were made on the flop will call you here often

[Scott3705]

I figure a str8 would call me, but thought a str8 would have bet the river in the first place since I was the last to act and the SB was the guy who I thought could have been slowplaying a made str8 since the flop. With the little action that was coming, I didn't think that he would be scared to fire a bet into the pot. (Maybe he would have been). I was just saying that a str8 would have been the only hand that would have called me on the river with the bet I put out.