$50 NL - flopped OESFD, bet it?

[Poker monkey]

I don't normally limp too much preflop, this was an exception due to table dynamics. Anyway, good flop for this hand. It's checked to me on the button. Doesn't look like anyone's got very much. Do I bet it and take down the blinds, or check and try to hit my hand (50% to do so), and try to get some value from a bigger pot?

Seat 1: Logik - $101.33
Seat 2: pokeratthebeave - $38.44
Seat 4: Hero - $111.54
Seat 5: gizmos666 - $61.62
Seat 6: ArcangelNo1 - $49.49
Moving Button to seat 4
gizmos666 posts small blind ($0.25)
ArcangelNo1 posts big blind ($0.50)
Shuffling Deck
Dealing Cards
Dealing [5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]] to Hero
Logik calls $0.50
pokeratthebeave folds
Hero calls $0.50
gizmos666 calls $0.50
ArcangelNo1 checks
Dealing Flop [K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 7[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]]
gizmos666 checks
ArcangelNo1 checks
Logik checks
Hero...

[AKQJ]

Seems like a very aggressive table dynamics dude

[ShipitFMA]

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Seems like a very aggressive table dynamics dude

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Go level somewhere else please

[SykoraG]

bet pot, reraise any check raisers all in.

[kolotoure]

Pot/3bai if raised

[ADK]

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Pot/3bai if raised

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[Poker monkey]

Hero bets $1.50
gizmos666 folds
ArcangelNo1 folds
Logik folds
Taking Rake of $0.10 from pot 1
Hero doesn't show
Hero wins $1.90

Seems a bit of a waste of a big hand.

[kolotoure]

Thinking like that is really bad

[SirFelixCat]

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Hero bets $1.50
gizmos666 folds
ArcangelNo1 folds
Logik folds
Taking Rake of $0.10 from pot 1
Hero doesn't show
Hero wins $1.90

Seems a bit of a waste of a big hand.

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Big hands want to play big pots. You can not play said big pots w/o making them, therefore, bet the damn thing and try and bet/3-bet it. What else are you looking for? Do you also check sets and such? Tsk tsk....

[Poker monkey]

I do sometimes check sets if I think it's unlikely that anyone else has got much of anything. There's an article by Sklansky about it here: http://www.twoplustwo.com/magazine/c...ansky0407.html

On this board, and since the pot is unraised, I think anyone with a King would bet it, and it's likely that anyone without a King (i.e. everyone) will fold to a bet because they'll think I have it. So I'm thinking why not let a card come off that might make my hand and give someone else a little piece of it, giving me the chance to win a pot that's worth winning.