small flopped top pair vs. an army of callers

[Moneyline]

Bellagio 15/30 9 handed

EP and MP are loose passive. SB is a slightly loose/slightly passive mope, and BB is a TAG who plays poorly postflop.

EP limps, MP limps, I limp on button with 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 5[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] , SB completes, BB checks.

Flop: 5 3 2 (5 players, 5 SBs)

SB bets, all call to me, I call.

Turn: 9 (5 players, 5 BBs)

SB bets, all fold to me, I raise, SB calls.

River: K (h/u 9 BBs)

SB checks, I check.

[Carmine]

Did you post this hand because you knew that when you made the FSD raise on the turn that "this player" never bets a draw/worse hand into a 5 player field(twice). You also knew that "this player" never folds a better hand.

This might be one of those spots where folding > calling > raising. This assumes we have a decent handle on how our villian plays.

[vmacosta]

Turn raise was pretty unnecessary, particularly given our description (your hand isn't a favorite here and he's not folding anything to your raise). Folding would be terrble, so I think you have a pretty easy calldown.

[benwood]

I don't think calling down is the best alternative.There's a very decent chance that your hand is best,& it's vulnerable,so it seems best to raise either the flop or turn.

[Moneyline]

Arg... twoplustwo kept timing out when i posted this, which had the result of erasing the suits when I recopied it. Anyway, here's the hand with the suits.

EP and MP are loose passive. SB is a slightly loose/slightly passive mope, and BB is a TAG who plays poorly postflop.

EP limps, MP limps, I limp on button with 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 5[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] , SB completes, BB checks.

Flop: 5[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] 3[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 2[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (5 players, 5 SBs)

SB bets, all call to me, I call.

Turn: 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (5 players, 5 BBs)

SB bets, all fold to me, I raise, SB calls.

River: K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (h/u 9 BBs)

SB checks, I check.

[ssmallz]

Aside from limping with 85s its standard to me