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I agree that preflop raise size is wayyyy too small. OOP I would raise a bit more than pot, you give him way too good of a price to call in position.

I disagree that you need to bet more on the flop, this is a very dry board where a smaller bet will accomplish the same thing as a pot-sized bet. I would make a similar sized bet with AA or whatever else I had here too (or even check sometimes).

As played check/fold turn strikes me as a clear play.

-DeathDonkey

$20 preflop and call a shove or shove over a min-reraise or anything else goofy.

after you do that feel free to bet $30-$40 of your remaining $80 into a $40 pot and commit on this flop.

Full Tilt Poker $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold\'em - 6 players
Hand Converter Tool from DeucesCracked.com

Button: $100.00
SB: $99.00
BB: $36.45
UTG: $60.90
MP: $121.25
CO: $182.45

Preflop: Hero is SB with A, K
UTG folds, MP calls $1, CO raises to $4.50, Button folds, Hero raises to $12, BB folds, MP folds, CO calls $7.50.

My plan after the re-raise is to attempt to get all-in if I flop TPTK and try to steal the pot with a continuation bet if I don\'t. My opponent was very active in the first orbit at the table, but I can\'t remember if I had a better read than that at the time.

Flop: ($26.00) 8, 5, 8 (2 players)
Hero bets $15, CO calls $15.

Looking back, a 2/3 pot bet probably would have been better here.

Turn: ($56.00) 7 (2 players)
Hero ???

Betting with the intention of folding and giving up on the river seems pretty bad - I\'ll have put in more than half of my stack without much of a reason, and I don\'t get to showdown my hand. The decision here is between bet/calling a push (ugh), pushing, or check/folding, IMO.

DISCLAIMER: I am trying to learn how to play NL, and obviously have very little recent experience. My advice could totally be wrong and awful, but I figure the only way to learn is to get in these threads and have an opinion. If I\'m right great, if not I\'ll learn something. So if you think the stuff below sounds clueless please let me know.

I think you probably need to give up. If the flop didn\'t scare him into folding then the turn certainly isn\'t. This is spot where you b/f limit, but NL is just too expensive. This guy is telling you he had a good enough hand to stand your preflop reraise, and a good enough hand to call a big flop bet. So I\'ve got to believe that he has what he is repping and I check fold the turn.

If he floated and took the pot from you then great play on his part, but I don\'t think you can keep firing here.


As to how you played the hand, I think I would raise more pf ($16 or so) and bet almost the whole pot on the flop. You\'re play looks almost exactly like AK, so if this player is good he might be calling to take this away on the turn, and there is nothing you can do about it. But if you bet the full pot on the flop he really can only continue with a hand, in which case you can easily c/f the turn unimproved.<br><br>Post edited by: themightyjim2k, at: 2007/08/07 11:47

Yeah, I think the preflop raise should\'ve been bigger. $12 isn\'t bad for a SPR of ~3.8, but you\'re giving him odds to call with any PP. He\'s getting 2.5-1 PF on a $7.50 bet, with about $87 behind, or over about 11 times the bet facing him. Raising to say, $15 or $16 would be better I think. You\'ll take down the pot the vast majority of the time, and narrow his range to where boards like these are a lot easier to play.

The way the action went down you gave a hand like 66 two pretty easy calls, preflop and on the flop. Raising to $15 preflop, and betting maybe $`8 on this sort of flop, he doesn\'t have quite such easy calls, especially preflop. On the flop, he\'s holding a pocket pair, and you bet $18 into a $30 pot, leaving a PSB left in your stack, you\'re kinda asking him if he wants to play for stacks but only betting $18.