$27 mid pair in BB

[tylerdurden]

MP has been bullying. UTG seems semi-donkish, built his stack with a couple of bad (but not amazingly so) all-in calls (e.g. TPNK vs. TPGK) followed by suckouts. Other than that he's been tight.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t200 (5 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

SB (t810)
Hero (t1479)
UTG (t2878)
MP (t6913)
Button (t1420)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 3/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 6/images/graemlins/spade.gif.
UTG calls t200, MP calls t200, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, Hero checks.

Flop: (t700) 9/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, 6/images/graemlins/club.gif, 2/images/graemlins/club.gif <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
Hero checks, UTG checks, <font color="#CC3333">MP bets t400</font>, Hero ???

[nyc999]

Fold. Not worth risking with mid-pair, no kicker. MP's bet is probably nothing more than positional, but there are too many hands that beat yours.

Edit: If you want to play this hand, bet out the flop and see what develops.

[sofere]

Betting out the flop sucks IMO. Any bet is at least 20% of your stack and is prone to being called or reraised by aggressive villain.

I am torn between check fold and CR push given the read of the villain. I'm pretty sure I just check fold this unless I at least had a gut shot straight draw with the mid kicker. I also don't like that there's a donkish UTG limper still to act who may also be thinking CR.

The more I think about it...the more I think this is a fold even though you probably have the best hand.

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Betting out the flop sucks IMO. Any bet is at least 20% of your stack and is prone to being called or reraised by aggressive villain.

I am torn between check fold and CR push given the read of the villain. I'm pretty sure I just check fold this unless I at least had a gut shot straight draw with the mid kicker. I also don't like that there's a donkish UTG limper still to act who may also be thinking CR.

The more I think about it...the more I think this is a fold even though you probably have the best hand.

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agree.

[nyc999]

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Betting out the flop sucks IMO. Any bet is at least 20% of your stack and is prone to being called or reraised by aggressive villain.

I am torn between check fold and CR push given the read of the villain. I'm pretty sure I just check fold this unless I at least had a gut shot straight draw with the mid kicker. I also don't like that there's a donkish UTG limper still to act who may also be thinking CR.

The more I think about it...the more I think this is a fold even though you probably have the best hand.

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I agree...why I said fold. But I don't know if villain ended up calling. My intention was if he intended to call, it would have been better to bet and maybe take down the pot at that moment.

[Melchiades]

Check-fold.

[11t]

muck here, there isn't a huge chip disparity between yourself, the sb, and the button so chip accumulation isn't a huge factor. You simply have no information about what UTG could have and could easily bust here tryiing to get fancy.

The only times I like c/ring with mid pair is when I know and button is open raising with a-x and instead he open limps, sb folds, and I check in the bb and the flop comes a-y-x where y is the middle pair I flopped. You can pick off a lot of bets checking here versus fools.