Microstakes cash hand

[Graham C]

Trying micro cash games out and this came up.  What to do here?  Villain is 59%/3.6% over 120 hands if it helps.   It's a massive raise, leaving him 10c behind but we have tp and 2nd nut flush draw.   Should this be an easy fold?

PokerStars Hand #83309308267:  Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10 USD) - 2012/07/14 12:08:04 ET
Table 'Alfven IV' 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 2: neita20 ($3.15 in chips)
Seat 3: Naughty Sofa ($10.05 in chips)
Seat 4: patriwww600 ($11.55 in chips)
Seat 5: CoolBadBeat ($9.96 in chips)
Seat 6: magos1701 ($10.46 in chips)
magos1701: posts small blind $0.05
neita20: posts big blind $0.10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Naughty Sofa [ ]
Naughty Sofa: raises $0.20 to $0.30
patriwww600: calls $0.30
CoolBadBeat: folds
magos1701: folds
neita20: calls $0.20
*** FLOP *** [ ]
neita20: checks
Naughty Sofa: bets $0.50
patriwww600: calls $0.50
neita20: folds
*** TURN *** [ ] []
Naughty Sofa: bets $1.80
patriwww600: raises $7.30 to $9.10
Naughty Sofa: 

[DMorgan]

Given his stats I highly doubt that he's bluffing but folding such a pretty hand for $7 is what I'd imagine getting dropkicked in the soul feels like.

Seriously though, he probably just has T8.

[Bully87]

Sets more likely.

General rule vs a 59/6 is to GTFO. Any aggessive action from a loose passive is nuts or close too.

Probs flat flop with set and then gone mental.

[pleno1]

He flat utg+1? He shouldn't have 108

[DMorgan]

He flat utg+1? He shouldn't have 108

Playing 59/6 met

[SuuPRlim]

yes, fold, fyl though.

If this wasn't /10c there would be a LOT of merit to chking this turn card imo, as played I quote our forum's hero Peeeee lennnnnoo

"If you have top pair in small stakes games just keep betting until they raise then fold"

Also, nit-picky but would defo bet the flop a little bigger here, the hands that you will get called by in these games you would very much like to take to a turncard, with a slightly larger pot. pot was 95c yh?  I'd go ~70c prolly, punish dem pocket 6's and 54sooteds

[Graham C]

Cheers all, folding seems the general concensus.  Will up the flop bets a little, I think I'm not quite betting enough sometimes so will correct that.

FWIW and results aside, I called, he had jacks, I didn't bink one.

Like this, "If you have top pair in small stakes games just keep betting until they raise then fold", thank you.

[SuuPRlim]

Will up the flop bets a little, I think I'm not quite betting enough sometimes so will correct that.

MAke sure you bear the board texture in mind, a really simple way of thinking about it for these games would be to think of the weakest hands he can have and think about how we really punish them, on this board specifically, and at this level you're going to get called very wide on this flop, hands like 66, 67, 46 bad 5's 2's etc and w've actually got great equity against these hands, because there are so many hands he can call with we wanna bet bigger. Lets say the board was 449r there is a lot fewer hands they will actually call with, so as a general rule you should wanna bet smaller.

I think a great rule to have is to have big default bet-sizes, and need reasons to reduce them, as opposed to needing reasons to bet bigger, speshly in micro stakes where most of the time they either call or dont irrespective of the size of your bet, so if you're betting for value which you should be almost always, then bet big!

[Graham C]

Thank you, appreciate the advice.