FIRST POST/HAND QUESTIOn

[vipon]

Hey all, im vipon and have been playing poker and bugging everyone at #twoplustwo for about 4months now. I have read SOME of theory of poker but i cant step away from the game and do more reading!

Party Poker 2/4 Hold'em (10 handed)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]. MP3 posts a blind of $2.
Hero calls, UTG+1 calls, UTG+2 calls, MP1 calls, MP2 calls, MP3 (poster) checks, CO calls, Button folds, SB folds, BB checks.

Flop: (8.50 SB) Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(8 players)</font>
BB checks, Hero checks, UTG+1 checks, UTG+2 checks, MP1 checks, MP2 checks, MP3 checks, CO checks.

Turn: (4.25 BB) J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(8 players)</font>
BB checks, Hero checks, UTG+1 checks, <font color="CC3333">UTG+2 bets</font>, MP1 calls, <font color="CC3333">MP2 raises</font>, MP3 folds, CO folds, BB folds, Hero folds, UTG+1 folds, UTG+2 calls, MP1 folds.

River: (9.25 BB) 3[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(2 players)</font>
UTG+2 checks, <font color="CC3333">MP2 bets</font>, UTG+2 calls.

Final Pot: 11.25 BB

Results in white below: <font color="white">
UTG+2 shows 5h 5d (two pair, queens and fives).
MP2 shows 9h Jc (two pair, queens and jacks).
Outcome: MP2 wins 11.25 BB. </font>



Is this an easy fold? As it stands I did hit. I laughed when I saw what won, I put at least one of them on the Q.

Thanks!!

[Joe Tall]

Hi Vipon,

Well you have picked a passive enough table to limp UTG w/Axs, which is fine. Looks like great table selection, well done.

Once the flop is checked through and you pick up the four flush w/a gut shot, you should consider betting. If you are called, you have a lot of room to improve. Your bet will likely look like a whiffed check-raise and represent a Q here. It will also avoid the situation you ended up in.

Welcome to the forum,
Joe Tall

[Richard Berg]

Bet the turn and call a raise. Be careful of Axs UTG in general, but you knew that.

[vipon]

So bet the turn and represent the Q? I have the right pot odds to call a raise here for the flush draw right?

Will

[House-Lion]

If you betted out on the turn you should call a raise.

If you hit your flush your hand will be masked by that turnbet.