You're playing limit hold em ring game. You're in mp and limp w/ 33, lp raises, both blinds fold. It's heads up and the flop is something like 557.

1. check or bet
2. if he bets do you call

This is to be just a general question w/ small pairs and flops like this. Let's assume he's a "solid" player and not a "loose maniac".

....well i need things like

blind size
chip stacks
raise size

id probably bet a little less than 1/2 the pot, if he raises its a pretty easy fold, and if he calls ill check and see if he bets

I would say a definate raise. He was in lp looking at your limp. His raise doesn't necessarily say strength but it does say high cards and maybe trying to isolate against you. I see you as best hand right now but a raise will define that. If you are best with the three's, you may not be for long so the raise gets you information on his hand and more then likely gets you the pot.

Thats how I would play it, but that doesn't make it the right way to play it.

Eddie what you will probably need here is some assistance.
On the flop, bet/call a raise.
If you dont improve, check/call it down.

The other option here is straight up check/folding the flop.

Level two thinking.

A) Check/raise he flop. A good player can raise with all sorts of garbage from late position.

Check/call the flop, bet the turn (when a non scary card hits)

C) Check/call the flop, Check/raise the turn, Check/call the river (if non scary cards hit).

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Whatchoo talkin bout?

yeah, there some poster that keeps posting WRTO is an oaf, actually that's his name too, unless its you fucking around

Not this time. Looks like a got a fan.

kind of like the smash antithesis Smashar00 . I dunno I think we need some of Smokey's insight on some of these hands :wink:

wait until you meet my alter-ego on a drunken night