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
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
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
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
,
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
.
What do you do?
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