Flopped middle overpair in raised pot.

[Hawkeye27]

The cold-call is probably too loose, but the plan was to play the flop strong if I flop an overpair or set. Comments? Good turn card, but what is BB calling with. Good turn bet?

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t15 (10 handed) converter

Hero (t800)
CO (t740)
Button (t710)
SB (t445)
BB (t1345)
UTG (t770)
UTG+1 (t770)
UTG+2 (t770)
MP1 (t770)
MP2 (t880)

Preflop: Hero is MP3 with 8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
UTG calls t15, <font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP2 raises to t30</font>, Hero calls t30, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Button calls t30, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, BB calls t15, UTG calls t15.

Flop: (t160) 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 3[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(5 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">BB bets t15</font>, UTG calls t15, MP2 calls t15, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t100</font>, Button folds, BB calls t85, UTG folds, MP2 folds.

Turn: (t390) 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
BB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t200</font>, BB calls t200.

River: (t790) A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
BB checks, Hero checks.

Final Pot: t790

[Big Limpin']

I wouldnt consider this to be a "raised" pot. Those asshats who min-raise in the early levels....nobody repects those raises, nor should they.

Normally, you think of a situation that came from a REAL raise as one where you can garner meaningful info on peoples hand holdings, put htem on a range. MP2's min-raise did not accomplish that.

Of course, i'm just nit-picking. Your action on every street seems to be pretty much standard. Thats how i would play it. gh.

[Hawkeye27]

The way I look at min raises are a bad player playing bad. His min raise is the same as a solid players 3-4x BB raise, and represents the same range of hands. So in this "min-raised pot" (lol), when the flop comes rags I can put him on over cards until he proves otherwise. It is hard to put the others on anything however.

[Big Limpin']

you put him on overcards on a 3-3-5 flop? Wow, dont go TOO far out on a limb there [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Hawkeye27]

lol, sometimes my hand reading astonishes me. But I do see min raises with pocket pair over 88 quite often. Is it safe to say he dosent have a 3? lol