6.50 fold this ak?

[hoyasaxa]

villain sucks, plain and simple

Full Tilt Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t100 (7 handed) Hand History converter Courtesy of PokerZion.com

Button (t6070)
SB (t960)
BB (t450)
UTG (t1380)
MP1 (t1440)
Hero (t2205)
CO (t995)

Preflop: Hero is MP2 with A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
UTG calls t100, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t300</font>, <font color="#666666">4 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">UTG raises to t1380 (All-In)</font>

i know what hes trying to represent, but im not sure if he really has it. Is this a fold?

[rkidwell]

I think I'd raise to t400 here since you still have 4 players to act behind you before it gets back around to the limper. If villian "sucks" what do you think he would limp/shove with from UTG? At a $6.50 with a sucky opponent, it might be anything from TT+, AT+, KQ+ or heck maybe complete air if he thinks he can push you off the hand. Have you laid down to a re-raise/push in this session already? If so, I'm calling for sure because villian likely thinks he can push you off the hand. Even if not, I'm calling here and making a note. You are WB AA and KK, flipping with QQ, JJ, TT, but at this level he just as likely has AK, AQ, AJ, AT, KQ (or maybe worse).

[Acey]

raise t350 and call the push

[RexWoo]

call if he sucks paln and simple

[shbball7]

If u think he sucks then I would call this time and note what he limp re raised wid

[ADLinden]

call

[greggg230]

At these tables a limp re-raise AI usually means a small pocket pair.

[hoyasaxa]

Dealt to hoyasacksa [Ah Kh]
G Q - J 10 calls 100
possums pecker folds
hoyasacksa raises to 300
iLuciferi folds
bearmorang folds
crushu folds
Gtrplyr44 folds
G Q - J 10 raises to 1,380, and is all in
hoyasacksa: ugh
hoyasacksa has 15 seconds left to act
G Q - J 10: lol
G Q - J 10: good fold
hoyasacksa has requested TIME
bearmorang: no limping
hoyasacksa: no one actually has aces when they do that]
hoyasacksa: and i hadkings that hand
G Q - J 10: dont take tv time now
hoyasacksa is sitting out
hoyasacksa has timed out
hoyasacksa folds
Uncalled bet of 1,080 returned to G Q - J 10
hoyasacksa: take it
G Q - J 10 shows [As Ac] a pair of Aces

[shbball7]

nh

[normalcy]

Turns out you had a nice laydown. Good job.

One thought for you, and one of the posters above touched on it. A raise of 3x is good when opening the betting, but after a limper, 4-5x is better. aside from the reduced pot odds that you offer (which is the primary reason for the bigger raise), there is also a psychological reason.

many players will attempt a re-steal from a 3x raiser, but few will do so against a 4-5x raiser. so, when you bet 450 and then get popped, that pop is a lot easier to read than when you just bet 300. the downside is that you put in more chips and get closer to being tied to the pot.

so, bigger raise after limper for two reasons:

1. reduced pot odds discourage callers, thus easier to thin the field

2. bigger raise discourages re-steal attempts, thus making your future decisions easier.

any thought on this? other than that, great read!