push with nothing?

Is this a situation that I should have avoided?
Or is this an opportunity?
Shooby


***** Hand History for Game 3202990995 *****
100/200 Tourney Texas Hold'em Game Table (NL) (Tournament 18287908) - Wed Dec 14 23:35:49 EST 2005
Table Table 67524 (Real Money) -- Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 7
Seat 1: goobrettyboo (1040)
Seat 3: Jack_Stat (2395)
Seat 5: Isocene (410)
Seat 6: sw212 (555)
Seat 7: SpineyFish (1030)
Seat 8: furry1_72 (1455)
Seat 10: mcrooter (1115)
Isocene posts small blind (50)
sw212 posts big blind (100)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to sw212 [ Js, Kh ]
SpineyFish folds.
furry1_72 raises (200) to 200
mcrooter folds.
goobrettyboo folds.
Jack_Stat folds.
Isocene folds.
sw212 calls (100)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 4h, 5s, Ts ]
sw212 ???

[bluefeet]

if you pushed this flop, i think you played it fine.

assuming he called the pfr with the intent of pushing the flop? otherwise, why not just push preflop? im not often in the business of calling off 1/4th of my remaining stack with KJo, even if I am in the BB.

[SuitedSixes]

Since you didn't push pre-flop, now seems like a good time.

[bluefeet]

[ QUOTE ]
assuming he called the pfr with the intent of pushing the flop?

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correct. though i didn't make that clear - ty. he's not getting a fold PF. he's likely behind. he has just enough FE to get a laydown pushing into a whiffed hand -- that now hasn't been given the opportunity to see 5 cards.

great stop-n-go opportunity IMO

bluefeet,

i found your reply quite insightful. i don't think i would have ever attempted to appply the ston-n-go concept to an area like this, but it makes a lot of sense in this case. you're definitely correct that his FE preflop is almost zero, and that its notably higher here. you made me think. i like your style.

Yeah, that's exactly what I was going for. I knew he wasn't going to fold to my push pf, so I though he might fold to a flop push if he whiffed.
To All, thanks for your input.

sorry -- misread OP

[tewall]

The stop and go part is fine, but what about coming in UTG with this weak a hand? If anyone else comes in, either raising or calling, you won't like having KJo OOP. It's the initial raise that seems dubious to me. I think it would be better to wait for a better opportunity. If you didn't have to get through so many people that would be much better.

For example, there's almost a 75% chance that someone has a top 20% hand, and anyone who calls will have position on you (other than the blinds), plus I don't see how a raise could be called. So it seems likely to me that the initial raise is -EV.

[Hendricks433]

Great oppurtunity. I pull the Stop and go alot(probally to much) and get called with A high alot but worth a shot cause hes not folding pf.