88 vs 2 limpers 3 calls

[MacGuyV]

9 replies & no obv. "raise preflop" yet?

[l0gician]

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9 replies & no obv. "raise preflop" yet?

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I think it was ...

[Bruce D]

I doubt I fold the flop for one bet. Matter of fact I think raising is slightly better as we can get hands like K9-J, A9, AT to fold when they would be close to correct to call our raise if they had back door flush draws to go along. I understand that straight draws and flush draws are calling, but we don't always face these behind us. A raise can increase our pot equity a great deal.

edit: I see that you metioned loose passives. Sometimes they do weird stuff often enough. If you have a read that says he hasn't bet a draw and only bets top pair, then it's a fold in my books. Otherwise I take the action I layed out above.

[inferno]

in these spots I mostly call the flop, not sure if its the best line

[frenchpignouf]

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Like Oink said in another post of mine, I think I have some big flaws in my game. Most of the time I want to keep going in a hand I'm told to fold and when I seem to be looking for folds everyone else is looking for calls or raises!

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It's normal to have flaws when you play 0.25/0.5, but folding more is not a solution. You have to analyse the hands where you are not sure. In this hand you have 2 outs for a set and 1-1.5 outs with the backdoors imo with slightly positive implied odds. Moreover you have the best hand quite often, so you can't fold.

Raising is not bad imo against a lp, the lp donk often a made hand. So if he 3 bet you are quite sure you are behind (fd is possible but unlikely imo), so you can make a good fold on the turn in this case. Moreover it is a good thing if the pot becomes HU.