2 Preflops

[AdamL]

<font color="blue">Thought this was close. Not much high card strength though and hardly any opponents made me muck. Bad fold?</font>

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Preflop: Hero is MP2 with J/images/graemlins/spade.gif, T/images/graemlins/spade.gif.
UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, UTG+2 folds, MP1 folds, Hero folds, MP3 folds, CO calls, Button folds, SB folds, BB checks.

Flop: (2.33 SB) 6/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, 9/images/graemlins/heart.gif, T/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="blue">(2 players)</font>
<font color="CC3333">BB bets</font>, CO calls.

Turn: (2.16 BB) 7/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="blue">(2 players)</font>
<font color="CC3333">BB bets</font>, <font color="CC3333">CO raises</font>, <font color="CC3333">BB 3-bets</font>, CO calls.

River: (8.16 BB) Q/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="blue">(2 players)</font>
<font color="CC3333">BB bets</font>, CO calls.

Final Pot: 10.16 BB
<font color="green">Main Pot: 10.16 BB, between CO and BB.</font>


<font color="blue">Raiser is your average laggy party player. But I didn't think this was good enough. What do I need to call or reraise this guy's raise, given his position?</font>

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Preflop: Hero is Button with T/images/graemlins/spade.gif, A/images/graemlins/spade.gif.
UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, UTG+2 folds, MP1 folds, <font color="CC3333">MP2 raises</font>, MP3 folds, CO calls, Hero folds, SB calls, BB calls.

Flop: (8 SB) Q/images/graemlins/heart.gif, Q/images/graemlins/club.gif, 2/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="blue">(4 players)</font>
<font color="CC3333">SB bets</font>, BB folds, MP2 folds, CO calls.

Turn: (5 BB) T/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="blue">(2 players)</font>
<font color="CC3333">SB bets</font>, <font color="CC3333">CO raises</font>, <font color="CC3333">SB 3-bets</font>, CO calls.

River: (11 BB) Q/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="blue">(2 players)</font>
<font color="CC3333">SB bets</font>, CO calls.

Final Pot: 13 BB
<font color="green">Main Pot: 13 BB, between CO and SB.</font>

[daveymck]

Hand 1 is borderline for me, I would raise if I thought I could steal the blinds, fold if not. If anyone calls then play it as normal.

Hand 2 easy fold.

[Trix]

1) I'll often raise here
2) fold

[Nate tha' Great]

Hand 2 is NOT an easy fold against an "average laggy party player". I would 3-bet or call.

[InchoateHand]

Call?
As in, call two cold?

I'm always trying to find an excuse to do this, please elaborate...

For instance, tonight/this morning, I encountered a friendly neighborhood maniac on Party 3/6, who was PFR a little over 50% of the time. Standard protocol would dictate waiting for a monster to pop him good, but two other considerations made me CC all the time.

One--everyone else was doing it. Maniac raises, 4 players CC and BB catches up. With five to a flop, but few PF three-bets, I wanted to be able to play my semi-speculative hands.

Two---I sat on his immediate right, and thus got to close the action. (And use his flop auto-bet to chase others if I hit a vulnerable holding).

As such, in the 150+ hands we shared at the table, I probably CC'd 6 or 7 times. It was a guilty pleasure.

[nepenthe]

Hand 1, I raise preflop.

Hand 2, I'm inclined to 3-bet or at least call depending on the lagginess of the raiser.