PP: Super Thurs

[Ryan11]

I don't like my play on the flop, should I have raised here? Comments?

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t200 (10 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

Hero (t5570)
CO (t315)
Button (t4315)
SB (t2230)
BB :#A500AF(Villian)/ (t8125)
UTG (t3720)
UTG+1 (t4110)
UTG+2 (t3171)
MP1 (t2445)
MP2 (t3395)

Preflop: Hero is MP3 with 4/images/graemlins/spade.gif, A/images/graemlins/spade.gif.
<font color="#666666">5 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t400</font>, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, BB :#A500AF(Villian)/ calls t200.

Flop: (t900) 4/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 5/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 9/images/graemlins/club.gif <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Villian bets t350</font>, Hero calls t350.

Turn: (t1600) 6/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Villian bets t5800</font>, Hero folds.

River: (t7400) 7/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>

Final Pot: t7400

[CardSharpCook]

raise more PF. Otherwise, I like how you played the hand.

[Ryan11]

Turns out the villian had 56

[shmahappens]

How do you rabbit hunt on party?

[Ryan11]

one guy had QQ and 310 left and ended up all in . .its not listed in the hand history forsome reason . .if you look tho it says 2 players at the river

[Lloyd]

I would only be raising with that hand from that position is on a steal attempt. And if I'm going to raise I'm going to raise to at least 600. You don't want callers.

Why did you call the flop? There needs to be a specific reason. For example, you're calling the flop to make a move on the turn if certain cards don't hit (like a K or Q). Otherwise, you need to either raise or fold.

[Ryan11]

ya i planned on raising him on the turn but when he moved in i changed my mind.

[Harv72b]

What they said...if you're gonna raise preflop with this hand from this position, raise preflop. No self-respecting BB is going to fold HU with those pot odds. You especially can't take that chance when the CO has less than 2 BBs &amp; the BB has you covered by such a large margin.

I don't blame you for just calling on the flop...I don't want to put a lot of chips on the line in that situation with just bottom pair + backdoor flush draw, and if he's betting into you with a player all in he probably has a hand that beats yours. Of course, that works both ways--if you put in a sizeable raise on the flop he's going to put you on a much stronger hand given the all-in.

I really do think it all comes down to preflop, tho--if you raise bigger, you probably don't have to make these postflop decisions.