Can you possibly be too dumb to lose?

[augie00]

Background: There is not one solid player at this table, everyone is an idiot. Got lucky freerolling in the big blind and I want to know if it would have been better to try a check-raise on the flop to drive out this freak who felt compelled to call with his runner-runner straight draw w/ a pair on board...

PokerStars 0.50/1.00 Hold'em (6 handed)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 6/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 5/images/graemlins/club.gif.
UTG calls, MP calls, CO folds, Button folds, SB completes, Hero checks.

Flop: (4 SB) 5/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 5/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, 6/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="blue">(4 players)</font>
SB checks, <font color="CC3333">Hero bets</font>, UTG calls, MP calls, SB folds.

Turn: (3.50 BB) T/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="blue">(3 players)</font>
<font color="CC3333">Hero bets</font>, UTG calls, MP calls.

River: (6.50 BB) T/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="blue">(3 players)</font>
<font color="CC3333">Hero bets</font>, UTG folds, <font color="CC3333">MP raises</font>, Hero calls.

Final Pot: 10.50 BB

Results in white below: <font color="white">
Hero shows 6h 5c (full house, fives full of tens).
MP shows Td 7c (full house, tens full of fives).
Outcome: MP wins 10.50 BB. </font>

[SomethingClever]

Totally depends on how aggressive the other players are. If nobody bets, then they get a free card against your boat. And given that MP didn't hit anything on the flop, he would've checked. You don't know what UTG had--he might've bet.

[sfer]

You played it fine. Nothing you can do about it. You're a 180 to 1 favorite on the flop. It's important to remember, however, that YOU DON'T WANT HIM TO FOLD on the flop or turn.

[deacsoft]

I agree.

[Chris Daddy Cool]

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I want to know if it would have been better to try a check-raise on the flop to drive out this freak who felt compelled to call with his runner-runner straight draw w/ a pair on board...


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You have a fullhouse. Why would you want a runner runner straight draw to fold?

[bisonbison]

You made sklansky bucks. Don't worry about it.

[bakku]

You made sklansky bucks.

LOL, he made a lot of them too

[Ed Miller]

You goal should not be to win pots. It should be to win money... or... as it were... Sklansky bucks.

[Ed Miller]

You made sklansky bucks. Don't worry about it.

Not to nitpick, but I prefer the grammatically correct:

You make sklansky buck!

[Chris Daddy Cool]

You write good. /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[bisonbison]

Now I'm picturing our bearded overseer humping the table. Picturing and giggling.

[sfer]

You owe me big for even contemplating that image. &lt;shiver&gt;