Re: TPNK in the SB
Playing top pair weak kicker from blind hands is something I have a huge problem with.
It is a nice contrast between my K3s hand and Donnie's. It seems that the primary difference is the preflop action.
Let me see if I can paraphrase your thoughts correctly.
Since Donnie's was raised PF, you are saying that this is a WA/WB situation, since plausible raising hands are AA, AK, KQ, KJ, JJ which have us pretty far behind, and hands like QQ, TT, AJ, AQ, 99 we are ahead of. We don't bet there because we don't know how to handle getting raised so if we are behind we lose the min and if we are ahead, this is the only way we can get him to put his money in. However, I imagine that if the bet came from LP, we would want to c/r since the pot is pretty big and this is a good chance to protect.
In my hand on a KQx flop, we don't know if we are in a WA/WB because no one has shown any strength. You advocate betting because it was not raised PF, I might have the best hand, and it would be a shame to check it through. I have a little trouble with this, since we are betting into 4 people with TPNK. We are hoping that no one has a K, unless you think that we are going to be able to fold a better K as we go forward.
This is a very interesting exercise, on first blush this hand and Donnie's hand look very very similar.
J
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