Okay, before you read this...I KNOW I SHOULD HAVE RAISED MORE PREFLOP. I had a tight table image (playing 16% of hands) and folks were folding to my normal 4XBB raises. I didn't want to scare this guy away and...well, I got what I wanted.
The question I have is...do you ever put your opponent on a set when the board is very UNscary and you have a big pocket pair? I did worry more on the river with the straight possibility...but again, JT from UTG is unlikely. If he had QQ or AA...why limp and call from UTG? And I really didn't put him on 99, 77 or 44. I'm playing low limit NL and have seen this happen with TPTK. BTW, he was seeing the flop 24% of the time.
***** Hand History for Game 4222270667 *****
0/0 Texas Hold'em Game Table (NL) - Tue May 09 01:03:20 EDT 2006
Table Reely Mine (Real Money) -- Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 1: wkclarke ( $24.70)
Seat 2: Coryan ( $40.90)
Seat 3: hitr2345 ( $68.97)
Seat 5: rabbitsfoot_ ( $26.51)
Seat 6: GR1Meval ( $57.17)
Seat 7: DTMracer ( $4.40)
Seat 8: drewcruisin ( $8.75)
Seat 9: tomeve ( $3.59)
Seat 10: Brehon97 ( $12.23)
hitr2345 posts small blind (0.10)
rabbitsfoot_ posts big blind (0.25)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Coryan [
Ks Ks ]
GR1Meval
calls (0.25)
DTMracer
folds.
drewcruisin
folds.
tomeve
folds.
Brehon97
folds.
wkclarke
folds.
Coryan
raises (0.75) to 0.75
hitr2345
folds.
rabbitsfoot_
folds.
GR1Meval
calls (0.50)
** Dealing Flop ** : [
4s, 7c, 9d ]
GR1Meval
bets (2)
Coryan
calls (2)
** Dealing Turn ** : [
Qd ]
GR1Meval
checks.
Coryan
bets (3)
GR1Meval
raises (15) to 15
Coryan
calls (12)
** Dealing River ** : [
8h ]
GR1Meval
bets (10)
Coryan
calls (10)
** Summary **
Main Pot: $53.10 | Rake: $2.75
Board: [
4s 7c 9d Qd 8h ]
wkclarke balance $24.70, didn't bet (folded)
Coryan balance $13.15, lost $27.75 [
Kh Ks ] [ a pair of kings -- ;Kh ;Ks ;Qd ;9d ;8h ]
hitr2345 balance $68.87, lost $0.10 (folded)
YenTung balance $25, sits out
rabbitsfoot_ balance $26.26, lost $0.25 (folded)
GR1Meval balance $82.52, bet $27.75, collected $53.10, net +$25.35 [
4c 4d ] [ three of a kind, fours --
Qd 9d 4c 4d 4s ]
So, the question is...do you ever put your opponent on a monster hand...like a set and fold here? Of course, hindsight says "YES"...but what would you do?
CORYAN