Did his ship come in?

[Finite_Risk]

It's easy to grin...when your ship's come in...and you've got Aces beat.

Often the limp/call raise is a medium pair...was this weak or safe to lay down? I suppose raising flop would help. No reads, villian just got here.

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $ BB (10 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

MP2 ($51.25)
MP3 ($61.03)
CO ($82.9)
Hero ($100.3)
SB ($33.83)
BB ($49.5)
UTG ($49.5)
UTG+1 ($50.85)
UTG+2 ($52.1)
MP1 ($49.42)

Preflop: Hero is Button with A/images/graemlins/heart.gif, A/images/graemlins/club.gif. SB posts a blind of $0.25.
UTG calls $0.50, UTG+1 calls $0.50, UTG+2 calls $0.50, MP1 calls $0.50, MP2 calls $0.50, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, CO calls $0.50, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $3</font>, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, UTG calls $2.50, UTG+1 calls $2.50, UTG+2 folds, MP1 folds, MP2 calls $2.50, CO calls $2.50.

Flop: ($16.75) 4/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 7/images/graemlins/club.gif, 5/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(5 players)</font>
UTG checks, UTG+1 checks, <font color="#CC3333">MP2 bets $5</font>, CO folds, Hero calls $5, UTG folds, UTG+1 folds.

Turn: ($26.75) 4/images/graemlins/club.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">MP2 bets $15</font>, Hero folds.

Final Pot: $41.75

Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF">
No showdown. MP2 wins $41.75. </font>

[jcmack13]

Raise that flop to $15. Then see how the hand plays out. You might very well have been good here. If you were the villain, would you play 88-TT any differently?

[Rosie5]

a 3$ raise after that many people entered the pot!!??!?!? (in what appears to be the most loose passive game I've seen in a while)

Misplayed. You have no excuse for having a 5 way pot here. You HAVE to have seen raises like that get disprescted and turn into multiway pots.

bigger raise preflop. Oh but Rosie that gives away my hand stregnth. So what, this hand should teach you to be happy with the blinds and a chance at busting someone who picked up a hand

don't underestimate the donkey. I raise big preflop with my AA all the time. In 10/20 maybe a set amount is best but oh wait, this is .25/.50!.

Preflop is disgusting on their part, but you need this hand heads up or 3 way at worst

[Matt R.]

Wow, this is way too weak. Preflop raise is a little too small I think with this many limpers. I'd make it ~$4.00. You HAVE to raise this flop bet. He could easily have JJ-88, 66, 56, 67, who knows what else. Make it $15 or even $20 to go on that flop. You can't assume someone made a set when he's the only one doing the betting.