PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (5 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx

UTG ($2.55)
MP ($4.70)
Button ($5.35)
SB ($3.75)
Hero ($9.55)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 7:diamond:, J:diamond:.
UTG calls $0.10, 1 fold, Button folds, SB folds, Hero calls $0.60.

Flop: ($2.20) J:heart:, 9:diamond:, J:club: (2 players)
Hero bets $2, UTG calls $1.55 (All-In).

Turn: ($5.75) Q:spade: (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: ($5.75) 7:spade: (2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: $5

This player had just lost a decent sized pot and seemed like he was tilting pretty bad. I figured at worst I was up against A/K, which I had two live cards against, but most likely I was up against random trash.

Wait so why are you raising from the bb with J7



and yes donkey play.

Why the pre-flop raise?

kcb, yeah, this is a pretty terrible play pre-flop. You're raising OOP against an unpredictable (tilting) player with a very weak hand.

Yeah that's what I figured

Oh well, at least I got lucky once.

That's fine. Luck happens... and believe me, nobody enjoys outdrawing people more than me.

There is no reason whatesoever to raise here though... but it looks like you know that and agree with it now.

Just check for free.

By the way, we are calling from the small blind and folding from absolutely everywhere else, right?

Yep.

Appears to me that if you hadn't raised the effect would have been the same, you would have still been counting up his chips. So why pay more to see the flop?

I was aiming to be Socratic-Method-ically asking kcb...

But I'm glad we agree (: