J8s 6-max playalong

[Dr. Matt]

hells yea preflop I either 3-bet the sucka and take charge (which I prefer) or puss out and cold-call.

[Dr. Matt]

Flop is an easy raise!! VALUETOWN!!

[Dr. Matt]

after the 3-bet with all that dead money in, capping sounds wonderful.

[Dr. Matt]

easiest decisions ever for a playalong.

[bozlax]

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where's boz when you need him, lol [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Sorry, I was in Sandy Eggo playing lacrosse and drinking beer for the weekend.

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My last and heretofore only playalong sucked yaks. I don't care; this one will be good.

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You're right...this one did a much better job of sucking yaks. The only decision that could really be considered marginal (preflop) you probably got wrong (hence, you didn't play expertly); the dreaded double-whammy of Playalong Rules violations.

[marchron]

Sigh.

If anyone wants to talk more about preflop, I will, but with that table and the reads I had, I'm coldcalling that 100% of the time and I'm not ashamed to say it.

My real question is the turn. I said that I capped and I thought it was marginal, but after further reflection I like it even less.

Babar wins the thread (yeah, not much of a prize) for this:

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he knows you have a straight and still bets into you

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He was speaking on the river play, but I think it's applicable to the turn as well: he knows I have a straight and still bet/3-bet me. With two other dummies padding the pot, raising any 8x is right, but he's passive, which means he's not raising just 8x. The only way he can have a straight and a chance to improve his hand is if he has J8; otherwise, I think he has T8 for the nuts an awful lot of the time.

Now we come to me. I have eleven outs to beat T8, which doesn't even give me enough equity to raise on its own; furthermore, if I don't improve I'm only winning half the pot; also, a [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] doesn't give me the nuts.

So I think the turn cap was bad.