Two Pair Against an Army

[mojobluesman]

Wild and loose game PF and afterwards, but I almost have to fold this river don't I?

Ultimate Bet 0.50/1 Hold'em (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: 2+2 Forums)

Preflop: Hero is MP1 with T[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Hero calls, MP2 calls, MP3 calls, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, SB completes, COUZIN calls.

Flop: (5.50 SB) 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(6 players)</font>
SB checks, <font color="#CC3333">BB bets</font>, UTG folds, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, MP2 calls, MP3 calls, SB calls, BB calls.

Turn: (7.75 BB) 6[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(5 players)</font>
SB checks, BB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP2 raises</font>, MP3 calls, SB calls, BB calls, Hero calls.

River: (17.75 BB) 3[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(5 players)</font>
SB checks, BB checks, Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">MP2 bets</font>, MP3 calls, SB folds, BB calls, Hero ?.

[mvoss]

You're closing the action getting 20.75-1. Assign hand ranges to villains and use pokerstove to figure out whether you should call.

[bellatrix]

No, don't fold. You call... and lose less than 95% of the time.

[Landonfan]

I call.

Consider just calling the flop and raising a safe turn.

[DavidSRT]

Very big pot, only one bet back to you and your last to act. Call.

[Absolution]

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I call.

Consider just calling the flop and raising a safe turn.

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Why would you do such a thing? You can protect your hand right now. This hand was played perfectly in my opinion if he calls on the end.

[Landonfan]

I dunno, I thought the pot was bigger than it was for some reason.

[Smurph64]

easy peasy call you win here more than you think.

[bozlax]

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I dunno, I thought the pot was bigger than it was for some reason.

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Converter borked, says there are 6 players when there are only 5.

However, that said, this is Micros. Even with a bigger pot you're wasting your time waiting until the turn against unknowns. $Sklansky are nice to talk about, but you can't buy much with 'em, and "protection" in a .5/1 game means getting an opponent to fold, not to call with incorrect odds. The fact that they WILL call with incorrect odds = value, which is what you're really going for, and the way to make that happen is to make the pot big enough on the flop that they don't want to fold the turn.

As Abs said, Hero played spot-on as long as he called on the end.

[mojobluesman]

I did call and was up against 2 flushes and a set. [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]