50 NL 6max TPMK

[tboss888]

No reads. Fold turn? river? What hand do you put villain on?

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (6 handed) Hand History Converter Tool (http://poker-tools.flopturnriver.com/Hand-Converter.php) from FlopTurnRiver.com (http://www.flopturnriver.com) (Format: 2+2 Forums)

BB ($59.10)
UTG ($24.75)
MP ($38.40)
Hero ($54.75)
Button ($48.10)
SB ($52.15)

Preflop: Hero is CO with A/images/graemlins/heart.gif, T/images/graemlins/spade.gif.
UTG calls $0.50, MP calls $0.50, Hero calls $0.50, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, SB completes, BB checks.

Flop: ($2.50) A/images/graemlins/club.gif, 4/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 3/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(5 players)</font>
SB checks, BB checks, UTG checks, <font color="#CC3333">MP bets $3</font>, Hero calls $3, SB folds, BB folds, UTG folds.

Turn: ($8.50) 8/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">MP bets $5.5</font>, Hero calls $5.50.

River: ($19.50) 3/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">MP bets $29.4 (All-In)</font>, Hero ??

[marvin_1935]

this is what happens when you limp behind ATo pf. please fold or raise pf.

[RAHZero]

Fold the turn. Villain could have A8, A4, A3, 43, 44, 33, AJ, etc. Against an unknown, stacking off with TPMK is spew.

[whoisthedrizzle]

Raising preflop makes this hand infinitely easier to play. You should fold the river, and probably the turn as well.

[Nick C]

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Raising preflop makes this hand infinitely easier to play.

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Yeah, I suppose. We bet the flop and turn and Villain calls with his AJ, or we bet up until Villain abandons his slowplay and lets us know with a checkraise that he flopped a set, or we get led into somewhere and we still aren't really sure where we stand.

I'm not really arguing for or against a preflop raise (although the over-overlimp in the CO does seem OK to me), but I am saying that when people claim that raising preflop makes postflop very easy, well, a lot of the time I'm skeptical about that. I mean, it's not as if the preflop raise magically turns our AT into AK.