Live €1/€2 PLH Hand

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Live €1/€2 PLH 9 handed, stack sizes are approximate.

I usually play NL $25 online, pretty inexperienced live.

I'm UTG (stack €210) with AKo
I open raise to €7, calls from MP1(tag €250), MP2 ( loose/awful €160), CO (seems decent lag €350), button ( seems tag €300).

flop: 9 A 9 r, pot $38

What do you think is optimal line here? check call? I'm probably up against a pretty wide range of hands, including 89o+, random suited and unsuited gappers and any practically any pocket pair.

[KurtSF]

Disclaimer: I'm a online micros guys also.

Looks like a great flop for you. I think going passive for fear of a 9 here is MUBS. And I think I lead out here. Exception would be if I'm playing against tricky and tough players. Getting raised on this flop puts you in a uncomfortable spot, and a tricky player can do it with ATC.

If called I would definitely consider check-calling the turn.

Oh, and river another ace. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Albert Moulton]

Lead for 30. Be prepared to fold if CO or button raise. Tough decision if MP1 raises, since he may think AQ/AJ is worth a raise.

If your 30 gets called, then try to get to the river cheaply with a check/call or c/f on the turn if the bet is large. Then block the river or c/c or c/f depending on who is in the hand with you, what the board looks like, and how big villain bets or raises relative to the pot.

[Berge20]

Seems to me that this is a WA/WB spot and checking isn't that bad an idea.

Betting will probably fold out most worst hands and if called, we're facing a much larger pot OOP. I'm inclined to check and take the action from there. If it gets checked through, we really aren't concerned with anything but 2-3 outters and we can lead the turn.

If someone bets the flop, I call and probably check the turn again.

[Mr_Donktastic]

I like a check because your hand can't really take a raise and it will likely get hands like PP and worse As to bet for you. So c/c the flop and check again on the turn.

Its hard to say what to do after that, but I may c/c all the way down depending on my reads of the players and bet sizes.

Sometimes being a calling station is right.

[D.L.M.]

are those euros???? usd's son

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are those euros???? usd's son

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I live in europe, we have the internet, and casinos here too [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[pterodactyl_]

I like the c/c c/c line suggested by berge and mr donk. Playing live I think you should be raising more preflop, however. In a live, low stakes game you need to raise more than 3.5BB UTG to limit the field. This would be a much easier hand to play against only one or two villains.

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I like the c/c c/c line suggested by berge and mr donk. Playing live I think you should be raising more preflop, however. In a live, low stakes game you need to raise more than 3.5BB UTG to limit the field. This would be a much easier hand to play against only one or two villains.

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In hindsight I like that line too, I bet €40, and folded to a €160 raise from the CO, who had been showing down with the goods, but seeing a lot of flops.

Unfortunately €7 was the max raise allowed, it's Pot limit.

[effang]

you should have called. if he had a T he wouldn't push you off your hand.