Did I play this Kx flush draw right?

Hack · #1 12-13-2004, 01:44 PM

I didn't want to make people after me face two cold after the button bet.

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Preflop: Hero is SB with 3[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
UTG folds, UTG+1 calls, MP1 folds, MP2 calls, CO folds, Button folds, Hero completes, BB checks.

Flop: (4 SB) J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (4 players)
Hero checks, BB checks, UTG+1 checks, MP2 bets, Hero calls, BB folds, UTG+1 folds.

Turn: (3 BB) 8[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (2 players)
Hero checks, MP2 bets, Hero calls.

River: (5 BB) Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (2 players)
Hero bets, MP2 calls.

Final Pot: 7 BB

meep_42 · #2 12-13-2004, 02:01 PM

Bet out on the flop, checking through is a bad thing and no one has shown aggression pre-flop. If MP2 raises, you are correct in simply calling the bet.

Turn and river are good, though a case can be made for a check-raise on the river, I think betting out is right. Were it a card that didn't threaten MP2's Jacks, I think it would be more liklely. Against an aggressive player, check-raise here, though.

-d

Hack · #3 12-13-2004, 02:03 PM

Yeah I contemplated the check-raise but too often I try it meep and it's checked right through. People often freeze up when a third suited card hits the board and become very passive. :\

meep_42 · #4 12-13-2004, 02:11 PM

I agree, and the overcard to his pair couldn't have helped the situation. So, only against an aggressive player would I do that on this river.

-d

Gravy (Gravy Smoothie) · #5 12-13-2004, 05:16 PM

I like a flop bet better than a flop c/r because you only have three opponents.

Good river bet.

Smasharoo · #6 12-13-2004, 05:43 PM

Raise the flop.

meep_42 · #7 12-13-2004, 06:01 PM

Facing the field with 2-cold on the flop destroys the implied odds of his hand, which are the only thing he has going for him right now.

-d

Jaran · #8 12-13-2004, 08:04 PM

OP needs to bet the flop, rather than taking a chance of a choice between facing the field w/2 cold on a c/r, flatcalling a bet, or having it checked through. A bet on the flop is the clear play.

-Jaran