KK in the Small Blind 2/5 NL Live B&M

Cardiac · #1 08-25-2007, 06:59 PM

I am mostly a limit player of late, but last night I decided to play 2/5 NL at my local casino. I have about 620 in front of me up from 200 by in. Have a solid tight image. Mostly due to a bad run of cards but won some ice hands.

Now the hand:
KK in the SB
All fold to the button who makes it 60 . He has been a rather tight player who I have not seen get out of line. He had about 700 in front. Looked like to big a bet to be a flat out steal was my read. So I figured he had QQ-99 and did not want to see a flop. The only problem was that I was not sure I wanted to see on either.....?????????

Being Out of position if a q-9 or A on the flop. May make me make a hard decision.

So I make it 200. reraised him 140. BB folds, and he thinks and folds 10-10. I won 65.

My question that been eating me up all day was...Did I raise to much??? Even with the hand range that I put him on I was very much ahead, so should I have tried to get more out of him??..... If I continue bet the flop and he misses he most likely fold so would not win anything more. (right?) Or was the raise good ? My plan was to push all in if he called and the flop was to my favor....but not knowing the exact Pocket pair he had I could of stepped in it.

All and all thoughts or advice welcome. As I am trying to get back to NL... Been stuck playing limit to long...LOL

Caballa · #2 08-25-2007, 07:52 PM

The raise is standard.

Stick to limit.

Cardiac · #3 08-26-2007, 05:15 PM

thanks for the reply anyone else care to expand alittle......

Albert Moulton · #4 08-26-2007, 05:45 PM

A pot-sized raise would be $180, not counting the blinds.

A raise to $200 is reasonable. AK and QQ might very well call or even push preflop. AQ, AJs, TT and JJ in hands of many optimistic live players will result in a call. And stacks aren't deep enough for you to fold to a push preflop, so if he has AA then its just a cooler.

Simply calling the preflop raise OOP to play for a trap post-flop is very player-dependent. I usually don't do it. It's generally more profitable to just reraise like you did and then push or CRAI on the flop. Even if the flop has an ace, you're probably pushing your whole stack on the flop if you're heads up and your $200 raise was called with only $420 effective stacks left behind.

nh