El Dukie
03-01-2004, 08:33 PM
See Hand #1 for a bit of background....
This hand is at a different table than the first. I'm in the cutoff seat with a $15 stack. I'm dealt A /images/graemlins/heart.gif A /images/graemlins/club.gif T /images/graemlins/heart.gif 7 /images/graemlins/club.gif. Once again, I'd prefer to have AATJds, but I'm not going to complain with this hand. There's one EP limper, and then a player in Middle Position raises the pot to $2.25. This player had recently (for about the past five or six hands) begun raising preflop every hand. And I do mean every hand. He had about $60 in front of him, but I didn't really have a lot of respect for his raise. Again, since I saw the opportunity to isolate with the best hand, I popped him back for a pot-sized reraise, making it $8 to go. It's folded back around to him. He calls. One important difference from hand #1 is that this time I have position.
The flop comes K /images/graemlins/club.gif 2 /images/graemlins/heart.gif 7 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif, giving me just the overpair and some lousy backdoor draws. He checks. I figure I'm pretty much pot-committed again, and since we're heads-up, I go ahead and bet my last $7, which is just under 1/2 the pot. He calls.
Turn is 9 /images/graemlins/heart.gif, river is 5 /images/graemlins/heart.gif, giving me the nuts. /images/graemlins/smile.gif
He turns over Q /images/graemlins/spade.gif Q /images/graemlins/club.gif J /images/graemlins/club.gif 8 /images/graemlins/heart.gif, meaning that he called my flop bet with just the Queens and no realistic draws apart from runner-runner.
Was the flop bet appropriate, given that I really had nothing other than the overpair? The board was nice and raggedy, so I didn't think he was likely to have two pair, but again, he'd been raising every hand so there was no real way to gauge what he had.
Thoughts?
This hand is at a different table than the first. I'm in the cutoff seat with a $15 stack. I'm dealt A /images/graemlins/heart.gif A /images/graemlins/club.gif T /images/graemlins/heart.gif 7 /images/graemlins/club.gif. Once again, I'd prefer to have AATJds, but I'm not going to complain with this hand. There's one EP limper, and then a player in Middle Position raises the pot to $2.25. This player had recently (for about the past five or six hands) begun raising preflop every hand. And I do mean every hand. He had about $60 in front of him, but I didn't really have a lot of respect for his raise. Again, since I saw the opportunity to isolate with the best hand, I popped him back for a pot-sized reraise, making it $8 to go. It's folded back around to him. He calls. One important difference from hand #1 is that this time I have position.
The flop comes K /images/graemlins/club.gif 2 /images/graemlins/heart.gif 7 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif, giving me just the overpair and some lousy backdoor draws. He checks. I figure I'm pretty much pot-committed again, and since we're heads-up, I go ahead and bet my last $7, which is just under 1/2 the pot. He calls.
Turn is 9 /images/graemlins/heart.gif, river is 5 /images/graemlins/heart.gif, giving me the nuts. /images/graemlins/smile.gif
He turns over Q /images/graemlins/spade.gif Q /images/graemlins/club.gif J /images/graemlins/club.gif 8 /images/graemlins/heart.gif, meaning that he called my flop bet with just the Queens and no realistic draws apart from runner-runner.
Was the flop bet appropriate, given that I really had nothing other than the overpair? The board was nice and raggedy, so I didn't think he was likely to have two pair, but again, he'd been raising every hand so there was no real way to gauge what he had.
Thoughts?