Ak whiffed

[KingDan]

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t30 (10 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

UTG+2 (t757)
MP1 (t620)
MP2 (t760)
MP3 (t585)
CO (t320)
Button (t858)
SB (t815)
Hero (t775)
UTG (t1690)
UTG+1 (t820)

Preflop: Hero is BB with A/images/graemlins/spade.gif, K/images/graemlins/club.gif.
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, UTG+1 calls t30, <font color="#666666">5 folds</font>, Button calls t30, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t100</font>, UTG+1 calls t70, Button folds.

Flop: (t245) 2/images/graemlins/spade.gif, J/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 7/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t150</font>, <font color="#CC3333">UTG+1 raises to t325</font>, Hero folds.

[smcannon]

Good fold.

[NYCNative]

Raised enough to get one caller, continuation bet on the miss and fold to the raise. Textbook.

[KingDan]

I assumed it was standard. Didn't want to cost myself money on a play I assumed was standard, since this situation comes up a lot.

[Unarmed]

I'm not going to argue with the C-Betting crew too much, but betting this flop opens you up to a semi-bluff raise from the FD, and can have you laying down the best hand as a result.

I'd check the flop. I check lots of flops with a whiffed AK. It's great fun. I showed down a whiffed AK against a whiffed AQ last night. Good times. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[NYCNative]

All I know is that MANY a time, my line looked like this:

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Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t30 (10 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

UTG+2 (t757)
MP1 (t620)
MP2 (t760)
MP3 (t585)
CO (t320)
Button (t858)
SB (t815)
Hero (t775)
UTG (t1690)
UTG+1 (t820)

Preflop: Hero is BB with A/images/graemlins/spade.gif, K/images/graemlins/club.gif.
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, UTG+1 calls t30, <font color="#666666">5 folds</font>, Button calls t30, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t100</font>, UTG+1 calls t70, Button folds.

Flop: (t245) 2/images/graemlins/spade.gif, J/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 7/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t150</font>, UTG+1 folds.

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[Unarmed]

And in that case, Villain probably had AT.
One of these days I'm going to write a huge post on why c-betting (while great against weak ABC players) is generally a pretty bad idea against loose calling stations.

[psyduck]

I usually like to check here as well, and call a smallish bet (maybe 1/3 of the pot). Is this goot? You have two overcards on a raggy flop and a backdoor. Any other bigger bet from villain = me fold

[BDarch]

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And in that case, Villain probably had AT.
One of these days I'm going to write a huge post on why c-betting (while great against weak ABC players) is generally a pretty bad idea against loose calling stations.

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I would like to see your opinions on this matter because I always see you arguing against continuation bets and would like to know all your reasoning.

[NYCNative]

My experience is that raise-check is a huge sign of weakness that screams, "Please bet now and I will fold like a paper napkin."

[Nick M]

you would check call a small bet??? Yeah I don't think that is a great plan at all. You raised preflop you must bet. It's just bad poker not to. AK is the absolute worst hand to play post flop when you flop nothing. The only way to help the hand out when you don't flop anything is to lead after you've shown strengh preflop.