50NL JJ, paired flop

sirpupnyc · #1 11-04-2006, 09:15 PM

PokerRoom 50NL, pretty donkariffic, no HH

I have about $15, relevant Villains have lots more.

Limp, limp, I make it 3 with JJ. Fold around to limpers, call, call.

Flop TTxr. Check, check. I, now with about $12 and the pot about $9.75, push. Fold, call, caller has AT sooted. Afterward, caller says "silly all-in."

Well, of course it looks silly once you know I didn't have the best hand...but was it?

I could check behind, taking us to the turn shrouded in mystery and all but demanding that one Villain or the other bluff.

I could bet. But what? Block for $3? Who's not calling that? 2/3-pot for $6? Maybe, but if one of them calls, on the turn I'm looking at a $21 pot with $6 in my hand. If I bet $6 and I get raised, can I fold? If the turn seems harmless and they check to me again, could I not bet my last $6?

I figure I'm not getting out of this pot, so I push. If one or the other has a T and has carefully put leaves and twigs over his trap, good for him. Am I wrong?

Etats360 · #2 11-04-2006, 09:18 PM

Wrong forum, dude. Micro stakes. Hand is pretty standard though. Also, buy in for the full amount next time.

Frankyboy · #3 11-04-2006, 09:26 PM

the point is that going all in on flop here, you're gonna get called by the T, and make fold the rest almost 100%.

Do not play shortstack, and u wont get that problem.

I would Bet about 5$ and fold to a raise or Chk/fold to a call.

Etats360 · #4 11-04-2006, 09:28 PM

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the point is that going all in on flop here, you're gonna get called by the T, and make fold the rest almost 100%.

Do not play shortstack, and u won get that problem.

I would Bet about 5$ and fold to a raise or Chk/fold to a call.

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He also has to consider protecting his hand against overcards. also, pocket pairs may call here.

Frankyboy · #5 11-04-2006, 09:29 PM

yeah.. im not too experimented playing shortstack [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

sirpupnyc · #6 11-05-2006, 01:20 AM

Sorry...wasn't sure if 50 was small or micro. Mods, exercise your iron fists as necessary.

There's a bit in NLHT&P about something like this, though I think that's preflop. If I get called, I'm surely crushed, but pushing rather than just betting clears out a lot of riff-raff-with-potential that I'd like to go away...AQ, KJ, 99, that sort of thing.

I didn't buy in short, just wound up that way. It was a whiff-every-flop night. I usually prefer to build myself back up, though.