Tainted Love

Party Poker Pot-Limit Hold'em, $ BB (6 max, 6 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx (http://www.zerodivide.cx/converter)

UTG ($41)
MP ($53.75)
Hero ($43.40)
Button ($49.70)
SB ($127.25)
BB ($47.20)

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

Flop: ($15.25) 2/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 8/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, 6/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(5 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">BB bets $4</font>, UTG calls $4, MP folds, Hero calls $4, Button folds.



Thoughts?



Turn: ($27.25) Q/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
BB checks, UTG checks, Hero checks.

River: ($27.25) A/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
BB checks, UTG checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $10
Thoughts?

Raise on flop works for me...that river bet is begging to be raised too

[scrapperdog]

I would make the river bet smaller to hope for a worse hand to call and I would probably fold the flop.

[Morrek]

I'd reraise more preflop, raise flop, and bet more river.
Oh and rebuying full is good.
I really hate not raising this flop as people do these bets with x /images/graemlins/heart.gif x/images/graemlins/heart.gif all the time, also with air I think to "test you"

They both folded. I didn't even consider a flop raise and I agree I could have raised more preflop, although I think that just gets hands like A10 or KJ to fold. I hate putting in alot of money on the flop with Ace High (a throwback to my limit side I guess).

The only parts of this hand I really like are the turn and river. It is relatively easy for one of them to have made two pair with that ace and a small bet lets me get away if I am check raised. It also gets value out of an 8. Most likely as one poster said, they had hearts.

This hand looks fine, you don't have what you need to price out the fush draw on the flop, and the river bet is a judgement call that could use a read.

Cambraceres

[CIncyHR]

I don't particuarly like the flop call. I think fold&gt;raise&gt;call. Why put money in with multiple players and just no overcards without even a backdoor draw? Youre outs probably arent totally clean, and theres a very good chance your behind. A raise could steal the pot, or overcharge a draw. Meh. I like the river bet though.