Re: How do the experts play this?
 

Bad raise pre-flop.
You want to see a flop, why open up the chance for some one to raise you out?

W/ two callers on the flop, Turn push is terrible as there is good chance you are behind.

Re: How do the experts play this?
 

No offense man, but...yuck. I might have made a play like this for maybe the first week or two I was playing online.

Don't worry, you'll get better. But there's not much to say about this hand other than what has been said already:
1. Don't raise preflop.
2. Don't bet as much (if at all) on the flop - might be time to go into check-calling mode with such an average hand
3. When you do make a play at this pot and someone plays with you, you are usually (not always; not in this case, strangely) in bad shape.

Re: How do the experts play this?
 

First thing I would do, is get a good book on starting hands.

K-9 is not a marginal or borderline hand.. In the blinds (early position), It's as good as junk at a full table. You'll get chewed up and spit out playing hands like that from that position.

Re: How do the experts play this?
 

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Raising from the BB with such a mediocre hand as K9s is very, very BAD. You are way out of position, and you have the opportunity to close the action pre-flop. Why raise and give an opponent, who may be trying to LRR, the opportunity to do so.

Once the flop hits you, you have top pair with a mediocre kicker. Personally, I don't like to play this type of hand out of position for fear of being dominated. Look at the range of hands that have you beat that could possibly limp before the flop: 33, 77, K7, K10, KJ, KQ, AK.

Bottomline is that at no point would I be willing to risk any significant portion of my chips, much less my entire tournament, on this hand out of position. I would check PF, lead at the flop, but after that I'd pretty much be done with the hand.



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Exactly

Re: How do the experts play this?
 

You played this hand so poorly I thought the converter was messed up.

Check preflop, bet out half the pot on the flop and fold to action.