Anything wrong here? Is the flop action building a pot for some draws?

I'm not sure I played this correctly...

side note: Aseem, do you manually generate the pacific poker hands you play for the forum? This took a while...

Pacific Poker 1/2 Hold'em (10 handed)

Preflop: thecamelot is MP2 with T:diamond: , T:heart:.
UTG calls, 2 folds, BB calls, UTG calls

Flop: (14.5 SB) 5:heart:, T:spade:, 8:heart: (7 players)
BB checks, UTG checks, MP bets, UTG calls, MP calls.

Turn: (14.25 BB) K:heart: (3 players)
UTG checks, MP checks, thecamelot bets.

River: (16.25 BB) 7:heart: (2 players)
UTG checks, thecamelot bets, UTG calls.

Final Pot: 18.25 BB

Pre Flop is good. You've only got one real limper. Tens are definately a raising hand, there is dead money in there. You have to raise.

You are only ever making it correct for gutshots to call post flop, every other draw will be getting good odds regardless. Don't let this concern you.

Capping the flop is perfect.

Betting the turn is compulsary.

Check behind on the river.

River bet seems fine to me. He has the 4th nuts, and he was checked to. Did you miss he has the T ?

Like your A6s hand, this was played perfectly from start to finish.

My bad - I did sorry.

River bet is good - nh

6th nuts though :wink:

You would have heard from nuts 1 and 2 on the turn.

Yeah they would be in your throat by then!

:oops:

No ones capping this preflop to make the sb, bb and mp call 2 cold?

After the flop looks really good.

Good point, especially after the MP (UTG+2?) post-reraise behind a limper.

His 3-bet is weird

I thought about it.

I don't think it's adviseable. They'll probably come along for the ride anyway, and while capping may be slightly for value, we are still probably going to have to hit a set to win this.

Capping is undersirable because it cuts down on our implied odds in too ways:
1) We put in an extra bet, so that means we need to make up more postflop.
2) Capping will undoubtedly slow down the action on the later streets (unless of course, we're badly beaten).

Also, capping makes it very difficult to protect our hand later if we have an overpair on the flop and river.

Oops... A bit of a mistake in the preflop action... I had to manually convert this hand and I guess a bit of a different hand got in there... There was no 3-bet (so capping is not possible here).

I will edit the main post to reflect that.

So the river bet is OK? I think I'm bet/calling here...

River bet is fine. You should call if you're raised against most opponents.

I am very susceptible to river check/raises, and for my stakes I don't think that's a particularly bad thing.

I operate under the assumption that if I'm being check/called, I'm way ahead, especially with a set, and a bet has a ton of value because I WILL get called... if only I'm not up against a flush.

I hesitate for about .7 seconds on the river and wonder if he hit, then say "fuck you and your river check/raise if you hit a flush. You're just calling with a weak 2nd place hand and I win if you call this."

And then I bet.