Folding a PP to overcards - weak or just right?
 

I folded both of these hands, where both an A and K fell on the flop over my pocket pair. Does anyone call or raise instead?

In hand 1, the button is a typical bad 5/10 player (40/10/~1) and UTG is just a loose idiot.

Hand 1

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Preflop: Hero is CO with J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
UTG calls, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, Button calls, SB calls, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, UTG calls.

Flop: (9 SB) 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
SB checks, UTG checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Button raises</font>, SB folds, UTG calls, Hero folds.

For Hand 2, BB is kinda passive (29/6/1) over not many hands. Hadn't seen him do anything crazy yet. SB another loose-passive type.

Hand 2

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Preflop: Hero is UTG with T[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
<font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, SB calls, BB calls.

Flop: (6 SB) 2[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
SB checks, <font color="#CC3333">BB bets</font>, Hero folds, SB calls.

In both hands, the Ace and King scared me off. Hand 1 was especially worrying with the UTG cold-calling on the flop. In any case, just checking to see if people think these folds are weak.

Re: Folding a PP to overcards - weak or just right?
 

You can't go too far wrong folding these hands here, especially without reads.

That said, developing your reads will allow you to exploit these situations to the max.

By the way, do you monitor what they think of you when you play your hands?

Re: Folding a PP to overcards - weak or just right?
 

Yeah, reads would have been nice. I have to admit to some auto-pilot multitabling here, but I definitely had not seen any of these players get too frisky or tricky yet. As for my image. . .well. . .I like to raise. I'm on the LAGy end of TAG play for 5/10, I think. I had been raising my normal amount - nothing huge though, especially in the previous few hands before these 2 happened.

Re: Folding a PP to overcards - weak or just right?
 

I think both hands are fine. Can't win em all.

Re: Folding a PP to overcards - weak or just right?
 

I think that these are both fine.

Re: Folding a PP to overcards - weak or just right?
 

What would you do if the Kings were replaced by 2s in both hands? Is the presence of an Ace sufficient for these to both still be folds?

Re: Folding a PP to overcards - weak or just right?
 

In hand 1 I would definitely still fold--there was a cold call after the raise.

In hand 2 Pretty tough, but I'd still fold because that opponent is relatively passive. Not confident in that one though.

Re: Folding a PP to overcards - weak or just right?
 

With only an ace and no king on board, I probably fold the first hand still because of the raise/coldcall, but not the 2nd hand because people like to represent the ace.

Re: Folding a PP to overcards - weak or just right?
 

I think you have to play these this way.

Re: Folding a PP to overcards - weak or just right?
 

Thanks for the replies everybody - the only reason I asked was because in hand 1 the raiser showed 77 and the idiot coldcaller showed Q8o for the winning pair of eights. The second hand the guy who led into me had a flush draw and the guy who called and won had 55. Unbelievable. I made plenty of notes after these two hands. I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't being bluffed too easily.