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[pokernoobie]

new guy joins the table i have no information about the way he plays Seat 1 is the buttonTotal number of players : 10 Seat 1: snickers69 ( $20.95 )Seat 2: snordog ( $82.55 )Seat 4: NolensVolens ( $26.05 )Seat 5: JugosdeValle ( $24.1 )Seat 6: Goduco ( $70.8 )Seat 7: TimCalahan ( $27.55 )Seat 9: ozecove ( $26.5 )Seat 10: dh8514 ( $14.25 )Seat 3: statico ( $21.5 )Seat 8: TinyManhood ( $10.25 )statico posts small blind [$0.25].NolensVolens posts big blind [$0.5].** Dealing down cards **Dealt to dh8514 [ Qs Jc ]JugosdeValle folds.Goduco folds.TimCalahan calls [$0.5].TinyManhood folds.ozecove folds.dh8514 calls [$0.5].snickers69 calls [$0.5].statico calls [$0.25].NolensVolens checks.** Dealing Flop ** [ 2d, 7h, Js ]statico checks.NolensVolens checks.TimCalahan bets [$2].dh8514 raises [$4].snickers69 folds.statico folds.NolensVolens folds.TimCalahan raises [$13].dh8514 is all-In [$9.75]** Dealing Turn ** [ 6h ]** Dealing River ** [ Kc ]TimCalahan shows [ 8d, 8c ] a pair of eights.dh8514 shows [ Qs, Jc ] a pair of jacks.TimCalahan wins $1.25 from side pot #1 with a pair of eights.dh8514 wins $28.5 from the main pot with a pair ofwas it a bad play by me for calling preflop in the first place??

[wrto4556]

:shock: No read, huh?I would have layed it down...and once I got the read that he is LAG, i'de start calling him down. Just seems like he had 2-pair or a set. Plus, your kicker is relatively weak.PS>I am better at limit. You may get different advice.PSS>Don't post the results.PSSS>Use this converter http://www.selachian...hhconverter.cgi

[akishore]

that WAS pretty weird to call an all-in with top pair, weak kicker, with no read on the bettor. that was also a very odd raise, $2 on top of $2? never minimum raise in the future, and i mean it. never. always raise to quadruple the bet or raise about the size of the pot (after your imaginary call).e.g. pot is $20, he bets $5. i will make it somewhere in between $25 to go and $35 to go.aseemp.s. in case i forgot to tell you, never minimum raise.

[Wilderness]

wrto4556 said:

:shock: No read, huh?I would have layed it down...and once I got the read that he is LAG, i'de start calling him down. Just seems like he had 2-pair or a set. Plus, your kicker is relatively weak.

You are right, I think he should lay it down as well. You have no information about his play at this point, so you can only go on what you know from this hand. What you know is this:- He limped from early position- He bet out after the flop when he was in mid position with a couple people still to act- After youre re-raise, he put you all inConsidering those things, what could he have? Well, he limped from early position, so he could easily have something like AJo or JJ, both of which would explain his re-raise putting you all-in. His bet after the flop could have been with Jx, just trying to take down the pot, but after he re-raises you then you've got to figure you are very likely behind at this point and lay it down. Yeah, turns out he was drawing to 2 outs, but there's no way you could be reasonably sure of that, and in fact you will be behind much more often than not when this kind of situation comes up.