$55: AK, Do you Continuation bet here?

[Taraz]

On the one hand there are two cold callers, my stack is decently sized, and all I have is a gutshot and overs. On the other, I like seeing people fold. What do you do?


Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t50 (8 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

MP2 (t1320)
CO (t625)
Button (t1030)
SB (t1232)
BB (t585)
UTG (t3190)
UTG+1 (t1078)
Hero (t940)

Preflop: Hero is MP1 with A/images/graemlins/heart.gif, K/images/graemlins/heart.gif.
<font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t125</font>, MP2 calls t125, CO calls t125, <font color="#666666">3 folds</font>.

Flop: (t450) Q/images/graemlins/club.gif, 2/images/graemlins/spade.gif, J/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>

Final Pot: t450

[MegaBet]

Yes, I bet 1/2 - 3/4 the pot and fold to a push. If they just call, I'll slow down and check unless an ace, king or 10 hits.

[pergesu]

Not a chance, the board is too coordinated to bet vs two opponents. Just check and hope it checks through and you hit.

This is the kinda hand where you'll bet here and get one caller, then the pot is really big on the turn so you feel like you should try to win it and end up shoving or something else crazy like that, and immediately wonder how you could be such a donk.

Letting it go is not a crime.

I will c-bet here maybe 2 out of 3 times.

[Double Down]

I like a check here too. Yes, normally it's good to do a normal continuation bet and fold to a raise or slow down after a call versus 1 or 2 opponents, but the problem is that with this board and 2 calls to a pf raise at level 3, I feel like there is a VERY good chance that it connected with one of them (q10, qj, kj, aj, kq, aq) that your continuation bet will not work often enough, but rather result in a call or reraise.

[pergesu]

Also when you bet here, get called, and hit the turn you get yourself into trouble because you probably only get action from a hand that beats you (unless of course it's a T). So basically you're betting a hand with ten outs, only four of which are absolutely clean, and when you pair up your opponents will fold worse hands and raise better hands. That's a pretty ugly situation in my mind.

[Karak567]

I raise to t150 preflop.

I check/fold this flop unless someone like min bets.