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25NL - Family pot, AK in the BB
Here's a situation that came up recently, and I honestly didn't know what to do.
25NL on Stars. Only about the 2nd orbit, so no real reads, although UTG+1 and I have already tangled twice, and he seems a solid player. PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.25 BB (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: 2+2 Forums) CO ($12.80) Button ($9.10) SB ($7.05) Hero ($27.70) UTG ($23.45) UTG+1 ($19.40) MP1 ($28.95) MP2 ($13.90) MP3 ($13.60) Preflop: Hero is BB with A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. UTG calls $0.25, UTG+1 calls $0.25, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, MP3 calls $0.25, CO calls $0.25, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, SB completes, Hero...? My first instinct is always to be the aggressor. I want to send my opponents a message that if they play a pot with me then their whole stack might end up in the middle. But in this situation I've got a strong but unmade hand and lots of opponents. If I raise here, say to ~$2.00, and get an early caller, then I'm giving the whole rest of the field great odds to call with all kinds of speculative hands. I'm only going to make TPTK 1 time in 4, and those times I miss I'd be faced with either committing a lot of chips to a c-bet when I'm OOP, or check/folding when there's a chance my overcards are still the best hand. But that's the price you pay when you play OOP, isn't it? Maybe I should re-read my own Pooh-Bah Post. Even though my first instinct is always to raise, I think the best play here is to check my option and see what flops. What do you guys do here? |
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