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Title: Turn Decision Post by: davidhendrie on February 01, 2012, 10:28:49 PM Apologies first of all if this is pretty basic - it's been a while.
First level of a small live tournament, 30-odd runners, blinds 25-50. Haven't played a hand. Approx 6000 chips for all players in hand. Mid-position raise to 150, button calls, SB calls, Hero in the BB with Jd 6h and decides to call. In retrospect I guess this is pretty bad just calling on auto-pilot because I convince myself I'm priced in. Flop comes down Jh 5s 7s SB checks. Hero checks. Original raiser bets 325 which I think is weak, button calls and SB folds. I'm pretty sure that this is just a standard c-bet and that my Jd is good, and if that's not the case then my opponent will let me know.The button is fairly loose/bad and I think is calling with most draws and any pair. I think he's passive enough to have Ts Jc, Qs Jc as well. I don't think my hand here is strong enough to just call, esp with the button call, so I raise to 1325. Normally with a better jack I might raise here to 800/900 for value, but essentially I'm just trying to end the hand here. Raiser obliges by folding but the button calls. Having played the button before he is essentially a bit of a wimp and will normally call/fold a middle pair or flush draw here in the face of a check-raise. So: apart from maybe folding pre, would you have played the flop differently? Turn is the 2c. What do you do? Title: Re: Turn Decision Post by: Ironside on February 01, 2012, 10:43:41 PM Check fold now
Title: Re: Turn Decision Post by: Ironside on February 01, 2012, 10:44:30 PM Wouldn't have called pre, and would of folded flop after 2 calls to bet
Title: Re: Turn Decision Post by: George2Loose on February 01, 2012, 11:52:20 PM This is exactly why you should fold pre. Because you're never happy when you flop a pair and your out of position.
Now we've reached the turn I don't really like any of out options but I would check/call turn and c/f most rivers. U want to try and get to showdown as cheap as possible |