$11 - Wrong to slowplay?

[kevkev60614]

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t100 (8 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

Button (t795)
SB (t1875)
Hero (t1540)
UTG (t1350)
UTG+1 (t990)
MP1 (t4230)
MP2 (t1260)
CO (t1460)

Preflop: Hero is BB with A/images/graemlins/club.gif, 4/images/graemlins/heart.gif.
<font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, MP1 calls t100, MP2 calls t100, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, SB completes, Hero checks.

Flop: (t400) 5/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 2/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 3/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
SB checks, Hero checks, MP1 checks, <font color="#CC3333">MP2 bets t100</font>, SB folds, Hero calls t100, MP1 folds.

Turn: (t600) 4/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">MP2 bets t100</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t500</font>, MP2 calls t400.

River: (t1600) 3/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t840 (All-In)</font>

I expect many of you would've played this differently, but did I play it poorly? I think I'm in love with the c/c flop c/r turn line when I flop something good. Is this a bad thing?

[Nicholasp27]

i woulda raised him big/all-in after the check on the flop

500 already in pot, which is 1/3 ur stack...

alternatively, raise to 500 on the flop after he bets instead of on the turn after you are vulnerable to 6x

i probably push most of the time on the flop after he bet, raise him big the rest of the time

[pergesu]

check-raise all-in on the flop. You will be called by overcards, Ax, 4x, and any pair. Which is a good thing.

edit: Or pop it to 400 and lead another 400 on the turn, then push the river if you're called through.

[durron597]

I'm going to disagree with the other respondents in this thread, the pot is much to small to checkraise allin. You guys are too used to Party!!

I am leading this flop and hope I get raised so that I can push. When you check call the flop, obviously the turn is the worst card in the deck for you. I am never raising this turn. Just call, and maybe make a small bet on the river (like t150).

[Nicholasp27]

&gt;1/3 of your stack is 'much too small?'

i agree that it may be better to raise/cr instead of push/cp, but i'm not sure if it is or not, and i don't want that 4 coming out to bite me...i'd rather add &gt;1/3 to my stack and have 2k in the bubble (more if the donk calls) than risk that 4 and have to fold or lose my stack and be out

in a cash game, i'd try to extract as much value as possible by not giving him odds to call while also betting low enough that he will call...but in a sng, i'm taking the chips

Isn't it almost always wrong?

[kevkev60614]

I'm just too greedy to like the flop c/r all-in line. When I flop a straight, I'm thinking double up.

I still kinda like my line, unless that pudthumper happens to be holding the last two fours, but I like Durron's line even more. Lead the flop, push to a raise, lead the turn on a flop call.