How would you play this hand?

[RiverBear]

I'm abugriffin. How would you play this hand differently?

Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 3: BIGGOLF3ds ( $2267 )
Seat 5: DeltaSig ( $3325 )
Seat 8: acegetter85 ( $1728 )
Seat 10: bluke51 ( $944 )
Seat 1: abugriffin ( $1736 )


Blinds(100/200)

Dealt to abugriffin [ Ac 6d ]
BIGGOLF3ds calls [200].
DeltaSig folds.
acegetter85 folds.
bluke51 calls [100].
abugriffin checks.
** Dealing Flop ** [ Qs, Th, Ah ]
bluke51 checks.
abugriffin checks.
BIGGOLF3ds checks.
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3s ]
bluke51 bets [200].
abugriffin raises [800].
BIGGOLF3ds folds.
bluke51 is all-In.
** Dealing River ** [ 2s ]
abugriffin shows [ Ac, 6d ] a pair of aces.

[john_galt]

I wouldn't have played the hand in the first place. With a 6 offsuit, you are almost always going to be outkicked. Chip stacks and blinds as they were, I'd drop that like a hot rock.

But if you were going to play it, min bet the flop. Since you let the BB in for free and the small blind limped, you have to find out where everyone's at.

[Elektrik]

He was the BB, so he should be in the hand.

In my opinion:
I'd fire a 3/4 pot sized bet on the flop, maybe 450. If you're called, shut down. If you're raised, fold.

Given that you checked the flop, I like the turn raise.

[Unarmed]

Its close, but at <$20 buy-in I push that PF.

[john_galt]

Sorry, misread.

[RiverBear]

Turns out the SB had QTd. He slowplayed his two pair and took a good chunk of my stack, and I couldn't recover...

[MrMon]

That's why you fire on the flop as was suggested above. With two [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] on the board you need to make flush draws expensive, not to mention all the potential straight draws, and probe for those two pairs and superior As. Your opponent will either fold you the hand or call. If he calls, you're probably in trouble.

The other way to play it is simply check and call small raises all the way down, which will cost you about the same number of chips. Even with a stronger kicker, this hand is just potential trouble with too many cards on the board in the zone and you need to limit possible damage. I would never call off most of my chips on this hand. Raise, yes, call, no.

[Colby818]

This is a tough one. If 1st position(2nd stack) limper has been limping into everything, I may push here and try to take it down. If he's been limping into a lot of pots, it's likely he doesn't have much and is just looking to see cheap flops and connect. I like this play more if you've been playing very tightly, where your play will get more respect. If you've been throwing weight around, I wouldn't push here, because if you get called you are in marginal shape. You may be leading, but he's likely got 2 overs to your 2nd card(as it turns out small stack did).

assuming the check preflop, I'm done once that board comes. you have no easy way of finding out if A7-9 limped(it's likely AT-AK would have raised at this stage of game). if one of those is out there, you could be in kicker trouble. KQ, QJ, QT, Q9, JT, J9 all could have limped into this hand. QT has you in all kinds of trouble. J9 is open ended. all others have pair and 4 to a straight. all of these hands have a lot of outs.

if a small bet came later from small stack, I might call. but, on this turn bet, when you just call, you have to assume that a push is coming on the river(though it turns out that with 3 to the flush hitting, maybe not). I'd have folded to the turn bet.

[YourFoxyGrandma]

Elektrik is pretty much dead on.