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i have been playing very tight, mainly top 10 only as well as lower PP's and Axs in late position with a lot of limpers. i have not been getting many cards so have been playing very few hands.

opponent has nearly a full stack just under $20, i have around $18.
i have no real read on opponent except he is playing a lot of hands and rarely raises preflop, but may call a raise.

the table is loose passive in general.

I get in the BB,

3 folds, 3 call, sb calls

i raise to $1, this is bigger than a standard raise as a) i have to play the hand out of position and, b) a raise of 3-5bbs tends to get a lot of callers,

opponent (MP) calls,

flop

pot is around $2.30, i bet $1.50, opponent calls, i decide he has a made hand prob a PP as there are not many mands to call a $ pre flop that contain a 2 or 3. i dont think he will call this bet with 2 overcards (not 100% sure of this as i have seen this at theese tables).

turn i decide i am behind and check, he checks.

River i check he bets $6....

i am pretty sure a fold is correct, yes?

my main concern is that he called flop and pre flop bets but did not bet the turn when checked to him.

i am pretty sure check/fold is correct on river.

do people feel i played the hand correctly?

could i have lost less by raising less pre flop and playing a smaller pot, i could have bet less on the flop if the pot was smaller

i agree that i probably made the pot too big pre flop,

not sure if i like calling pre flop with a top 5 hand as then i don't know if i am ahead even if i hit TPTK,

i liked the flop so decided to bet it. harrington suggests making a 1/2 pot sized bet, so that the opponent only has to fold 1/3 of the time for you to profit (marm thinks i should bet more). i thought my flop bet may have been too large but i bet the ammount i did as the table in general was making loose calls and i prefer a fold here.

i gave up on the turn as i believed i was behind, is there any point betting when you thing you are behind and the opponent has called 2 largish (compared to pot) bets.? he may fold of course?

i decided not to call any more bets as i decided i am behind

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70c probably would have been decent, then I would bet 1/2 to 3/4 of the pot on the flop.

Or with 3 players check and see what they do, someone probably had a pocket pair here, and you aren't going to scare them out, and don't have much for draws.

Originally Posted by Marm

Steve had a good point with artificially infalting a pot. Your aised PF with a drawing hand from OOP, just to try and eliminate players.


River, you gave him the opening to bluff, and he tok it, we now have no idea what he has... so I guess folding is probably your best choice. But you may hev been able to call this river bet if you hadn't inflated the pot PF. You stated that you were expecting callers PF, so an OOP bet is not doing anything but building a pot....

ooh you learn something new. what is OOP. so you're saying he should raise AKs with the usual 3-4bb, cos AKs is only good in multi ppl pot?

I can't agree with Marm. Your preflop is fine as it netted you only 1 caller(this is what you want). On the flop, I don't like betting here because the pot is so big. If you check, your opponent will often only bet when he has a hand because you raised so big preflop.

But its totally dependant on the opponent. You should only bet the flop if you are trying to represent aces and your opponent is smart enough to fold. If hes some idiot I'd check fold it down and take the pot down with A high often.

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