6max.: betting those pocketpairs... a tightrope walk

[hra146]

Hello,

heres a recent one.

Poker Room skin
Limit Holdem Ring game
Limit: $0.25/$0.5
5 players
Converter

Pre-flop: (5 players) hero is UTG with 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
<font color="#cc0000">hero raises</font>, 2 folds, SB calls, BB folds.

Flop: 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 2[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (5SB, 2 players)
SB checks, <font color="#cc0000">hero bets</font>, SB calls.

Turn: 4[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (3.5BB, 2 players)
SB checks, hero checks.

River: 8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (3.5BB, 2 players)
<font color="#cc0000">SB bets</font>, hero calls.

Results:
Final pot: 5.5BB




Should I have stayed aggressive on the turn? I couldnt imagine a hand that calls and doesnt beat me (except the flushdraw, I would be ahead there)

Although most players (including me) are inexperienced in SH HE I cant imagine anyone calling down a PF raiser with a pair a 5s or deuces.

I suspected

25% a higher pocketpair
60% overcards
15% flushdraw

adding it up I wasnt ahead, so I decided to check the turn behind and see what the river brings. Since it was "only" the flushdraw, that I thought to be least possible, I tried to induce a bluff.
I was prepared to take this hand to the showdown anyway. I didnt donk the river because I didnt see any worse hands that call me, only better ones possibly raising. Checking, as I said, may induce a bluff (from overcards) and give me an extra big bet.

Not a true masterplan, but the pot was too big on the turn + river to give it up with middlepair.

Whaddayasay?


greets