Here is one hand that I found interesting. I will ask the questions and then tell you what I did.

180 man sit and go on pokerstars. Midway through - blinds 50/100

Two limpers, I'm in sb with Ac10c.

I have 5000 in chips, one limper has 2000 and the other has 3000. The bb has about 5000 as well.

1. What would you do here?

I decided to make it 500. Only the second limper calls.

Flop is 844 with one club.

2. Would you bet this flop or check?

I bet out 700 and he calls, leaving himself with about 2000 behind. Turn is the 7 of clubs. I put him all in. This was a semi-bluff with flush and over-card outs to fall back on.

3. Do you think I have enough fold equity to make it a good play?
Perhaps it would be better to bet only 1000?

1. Raise is meh because you are pretty deep, but I would call here. Raising could make you to fall in love with A10s OOP, not what you want.

2. Since you did raise from the sb and thus presumeably are representing a pair, I think a stab at the pot is in order for that flop texture.

3. He called your bet on the flop, so he must have some type of made hand since there are no draws. The question is how strong is his hand... idk it just seems like a turn all in push screams of a semi-bluff.

I just complete from the SB and hope to hit a flop. I'm not too worried about being dominated so with a flopped ace I likely have the best hand. If I miss I'll obviously c/f as if I were holding 97o. I'm very passive from the SB without big hands though.

Now if you want to run the bluff postflop,

There's 1200 in the pot, so your 700 bet is ok. Villain open limped and called so a pocket pair that puts you on overs is possible. He could be as weak as 55 or as strong as 88. He might even be slowplaying kings or aces.

Turn it's either time to push or c/f (or call a cheap bet). There's no use betting 1k. If you bet 1k and he pushes, you basically must call with your NFD even on a paired board, and you've given him the opportunity to think his pair is good. At this point there are really no safe cards; a villain who called with 77 has now made a fullhouse.

I give up though. He CALLED almost 30% of his stack on this dry board. Well, he's not calling on a draw as it's a rainbow flop and the only straight draw is a gutshot (you did just say one club, so maybe there could be two hearts + one club?) This tells me that he likes his hand and is trapping. Maybe he knows you're running a bluff and is planning to call down with 33 hell or high water. What would you do with a hand that is behind ATc? You certainly don't call and cross your fingers. You either fold or push.

I don't like the raise pf. You are OOP with a weak hand. And you are definitely not midway through, it's still in the first hour. I rarely CB in the first hour, still too many donks in, it's definitely not worth risking a 5k stack. Read the thread stickied at the top of this section, and continue to post hands, The 180's are goldmines, gl man.

Yeah, I had the sense that these games were pretty soft, but I played 10 last night and went out in 60th-30th place in all of them, just getting no luck, losing all my all-in confrontations whether a 5-1 favorite, a coinflip, or a 2-1 dog.

On the given hand, I was obviously a bit frustrated, and that may have made me make this risky play. I think villain would have had a tough call with a hand like A8, 99, or 66 here, but unfortunately he had 77 -- so I hit the one card on the turn that allowed me to run a semi-bluff and also made his hand - that's life as they say...

The mistake was made preflop, though. There's no reason to play big stack poker with a marginal hand like ATs from the SB when you're sitting on so many chips.