I'm often guilty of not properly protecting my hand. On occasion, I'll miss or neglect situations where it would have been beneficial to protect. Other times I may do so believing it is the correct play when in fact it was not.
Here are the reads for the following hand:
BB is a solid player. 200 hands 13/9/2.07
MP1 is spewing chips. 34 hands 85/3/0.66 (-$260.00 and sitting to my right [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] )
Party Poker 3/6 Hold'em (9 handed)
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Preflop: Hero is MP2 with 6[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
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2 folds</font>, MP1 calls, Hero calls, <font color="#666666">
3 folds</font>, SB completes, BB checks.
Flop: (4 SB) 3[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 6[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
SB checks, <font color="#CC3333">BB bets</font>, MP1 calls, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, SB folds, BB calls, MP1 calls.
Is this raise appropriate in this instance?
If the turn is a blank and BB comes out firing, a fold would be in order, correct?