[emerson]

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Playing a live 40-80 game, its pretty good. I’ve been at the table for about an hour and am running well and playing a decent number of hands, but I’ve only been showing down strong starting hands and winning them. MP1 is a decent playing TAG who plays a few too many hands. The BB is a bad (loose and passive) player who is on a 40 hour poker bender and is falling asleep between hands.

I have J [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] J [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] in the SB.

Folded to MP1 who opens. Folded to me in the SB and I make it 3 bets to go. BB literally wakes up looks at his cards and cold calls. MP1 calls and its 3 to the flop for 9sb.

2 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] 6 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] T [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

I bet, BB calls and MP1 raises. What’s my action and general plan for the hand?

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You need to raise now and try to get rid of the BB, who may be holding overcards.

Also, you need to thwart what might be a free card raise from a single big club and then lead on the turn if a non-club hits.

If a club hits on the turn you no longer have to worry about giving a free card to a club draw. I check call all the way from there. You may induce bets or bluffs from a weaker hand such as a smaller flush or just tens. But you don't need to get raised by a bigger flush.

Careful if he checks behind after a club hits on the turn. He may figure that you would fold on the turn if he bets but that you might bet the river after he checks his big flush. That's how I'd play the ace of clubs in his position if I saw you as an aggressive player who will always jump on any sign of weakness.

Betting the turn when a club hits, with the plan of folding to a raise, is very risky. I would make a free show down raise instantly in his position if I thought you were a modern TAG who likes to bet/fold. I'd do this with only tens. If you bet the turn you have to call down.