2 Kxs hands B&M

[bdypdx]

1) Very loose and passive game. Any aggression means they have something...

I have K5s on the button. 4 limpers. I limp. SB completes. BB checks.

Flop: 346. 6 is a spade
A bet in EMP. 3 call. I raise. SB folds. BB calls. Others call.

Turn: Js.
Checked to MP who bets. Call. I call. BB calls. Folded back to MP.


2) This one for kicks. Another day, another game.

I just sit down in UTG+2. No real reads other than having played with MP, but after watching, the game looks good. Get cards, take a quick look and see AKh. I raise. 2 cold
callers. BB calls. I take another peek at my cards, and "uh-oh" I have K4h!

Flop: K36 with 1 heart.
Oh well. I bet. MP and BB call.

Turn: 3.
Get out! I bet my AK. MP calls. BB folds. So much for that plan.

[Joe Tall]

I don't normally play Kxs, I fold preflop unless in the blinds.

Hand#1

You could consider raising the turn with so many outs.

Hand#2
Bet the river.

Welcome to the forum,
Joe Tall

[bdypdx]

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I don't normally play Kxs, I fold preflop unless in the blinds.

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It's very rare for me, things have to be just right...but in hand 1, I had just read p. 163 of HPFAP and thought I'd try it out. All of the conditions were met, so there you go...

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Hand#1

You could consider raising the turn with so many outs.


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This occured to me later.

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Hand#2
Bet the river.

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This makes sense as it would have been my last, only chance to drive out MP. I was only in the hand due to my card misread so I was a bit flustered.

Oh, btw it was a 4/8 game. Hand 2 in a kill game, but this was not a kill pot. Hand 1 normal.

[bdypdx]

Hand 1.

River: As
MP bets, fold, I raise. MP re-raises. I raise again. MP calls, makes a comment about chopping and turns over AJo. He was truly surprised to see the nut flush.

Hand 2.

River: Q
I check, MP checks.
He has KT. We chop. I manage to salvage a bit from my card misread.

In playing with MP of hand 2, I know that he likes to call and only comes alive with a solid hand. He will typically cold call preflop with any 2 broadway cards, Ax, or pairs. On the turn I figured he most likely had a K (KQo/s, KJo/s KTo/s or K9o/s), but he could have had Ax. So I checked thinking he would only bet with KQ and would fear a C/R otherwise.

Anyway, I RARELY play Kxs out of the blinds, but once in a while it seems to be the right thing to do. Of course though, I won't be raising with it as in Hand 2.