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Old 09-29-2005, 08:35 PM
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Default 1st hand at new table - no reads

My thought on the flop raise was to try and knock out the button. Not sure if I played this one right.


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Preflop: Hero is MP2 with T[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. Hero posts a blind of $1.
<font color="#666666">4 folds</font>, Hero (poster) checks, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, Button calls, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, BB checks.

Flop: (3.50 SB) T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">BB bets</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, Button folds, BB calls.

Turn: (3.75 BB) 3[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
BB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, BB calls.

River: (5.75 BB) 2[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
BB checks, Hero checks.

Final Pot: 5.75 BB

Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF">
BB has 2s Kh (two pair, kings and twos).
Hero has Th 3h (two pair, tens and threes).
Outcome: BB wins 5.75 BB. </font>
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Old 09-29-2005, 09:01 PM
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Default Re: 1st hand at new table - no reads

Fold the flop. Pot's small and you're likely to be behind. Avoid trying to get clever in this situation, especially readless.

I think there's an argument for betting the river. Though I'm unsure whether villain will fold any better hands, or call often enough with a worse hand. I'm leaning toward bet/fold as villain's line strongly suggests he holds a K without a club, and I think he'll pay you off enough times with this. Plus there's a slight possibility you will fold a better hand.
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Old 09-29-2005, 09:22 PM
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Default Re: 1st hand at new table - no reads

Don't post in MP2. Since you did, raise preflop.
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Old 09-29-2005, 10:02 PM
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Default Re: 1st hand at new table - no reads

1/2 goes in micros. No big deal. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Don't post in MP2; if you can't post in the CO, wait for the BB.

You can probably fold the flop; yes, there's a chance that BB is betting out with a weaker hand and/or flush draw, but is that going to be the case the around 50% of the time you'd need it to be to justify a raise in this tiny pot? You have to have a pretty firm read on BB as a LAGtard in order to make a raise correct here.

Given your flop action, I play the turn &amp; river the same.

Don't include results in your initial post--it can skew the advice you get. I didn't look at them until after typing this out, FWIW.
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