Bullets at the Bellagio

[ILOVEPOKER929]

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the pot is big so I feel I should protect my hand in case it's good or in case I can draw out. So I make it five bets to hopefully drive out the SB.

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FLOP: Given your description of the BB, your hand sux so much that I dont think its worth trying to protect with a 5bet. Although I do like the spirit of your play as far as the notion that in many situations it's important to protect your hand even when you feel you are a significant underdog to be best. When the pot gets large, having the best hand "sometimes" is usually enough reason to play aggressively and go into protection mode. However when the BB, whom you described as weak/tight coldcalls the flop check/raise in a very precarious position knowing that you could 3bet behind him, and then he caps the flop when it comes back to him, I dont think your hand will be good often enough here even in this very large pot to worry about protecting. So I prefer calling the flop 4bet.

TURN: As CDC said, if youre going to call a blank river, then you should bet/fold this turn. If you were intending to fold on a blank river then I like your turn play. I personally think the best play on the turn is to check it with the intentions of folding the river unless you improve to aces up or top set. The reason I say this is your only hope was that this guy was getting fancy with a combo flush draw, and that hope died on the turn so theres no reason in my mind to commit another bet to this pot UI.

RIVER: You have two choices on the river and calling is not one of them. If you think this guy will bet/fold 2pair or a set on the river then a bluff raise should atleast be considered. In general, the vast majority of poker players dont make this kind of fold. In fact most wouldnt even dare bet this river with a 2pair/set hand especially a weak/tight player. So folding the river is the clear best play in my mind.