[Surf]

Hey SJ,

Preflop I would either raise a little smaller, or a little bigger. $45-50 gets us to a spot where we can comfortably get it in on "good" boards like this, $200ish in the pot and $475 left to bet.. $25 lets there be $100 in the pot with $525 behind in this 5way pot so we can play for set value/pot control.

On the flop if we are betting (given stack sizes) we are committing, though it's slightly tougher to do than if we had raised a bit more pre.

Given that, i'd bet close to $160-$170 on the flop, most live players aren't so good at figuring out how big the bet is in relation to the pot and as such don't adjust their ranges accordingly. Even just 1 caller lets us bet the turn allin for under pot.

The Q sucks, because JT just got there, and we have just enough behind($425 into a $370 pot) that we have given him decent implieds if we stack off here.

How would the average player react with 9T here? With Ad6d? If they'll check it back we could c-f the turn. A bit better planning though leaves us betting allin for 2/3 pot here, and if he can beat us good for him.

Surf