Misplayed on every street?: Hand A

[brick]

3-6 B&M with 5/10 Kill

Kill pot. I'm in the SB with A/images/graemlins/diamond.gif Q/images/graemlins/heart.gif.

MP Limps. LP Kill button raises. I call. BB calls.
Flop is Q/images/graemlins/spade.gif J/images/graemlins/club.gif 9/images/graemlins/club.gif

I go for the check raise, thinking LP will bet to 'protect his kill'.

Checked around.

Turn: 8/images/graemlins/diamond.gif

I bet. BB Raised. I call.

River: J/images/graemlins/diamond.gif

I check and call.

[Ed Miller]

I would fold before the flop. You have only $1 of blind to go toward calling a $10 bet, so you can almost forget that you are in the blind at all. Since I wouldn't cold-call on the button with this hand usually, I certainly am not going to cold-call with it from the small blind position.

When you are raised on the turn, you should fold. The pot is small, and you are likely to be drawing dead.

[Joe Tall]

Playing AQo out of position when it's raised preflop isn't a good idea in the long run. ESPECIALLY in a Kill pot, I'm assuming it's a $2 blind, so you threw in $8, that's no good.

If you feel the LP has loose standards out of his Kill Blind and you are going to play it, 3-bet and try to isolate the preflop-raiser, it would have been easier postflop if you did.

I think you can fold to the turn raise. That's a heavily cooridinated board. Betting flop seems like a better play. You've learned a tough lesson playing a weak hand out of position, I feel.

Welcome to the forum,
Joe Tall

[brick]

I didn’t give much credit to the kill button when he made it $10. He was unknown to me, but it’s really common for the killer to raise with any two big cards or middle pairs.
Right now I’m leaning towards 3 betting pre-flop.
If I absolutely knew that the Kill Button did not have AA, AK, KK, AQ, or QQ, then should I 3-bet?

As it turns out, not 3-betting might have cost me the pot.

The BB had KT for the flopped straight.