[Dave D]

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Sitting on 1200 in a $33 MTT on PartyPoker tonight. Blinds are 15/30. I'm in the small blind. Villain is pretty tight, and raises it in UTG+2. Villain has 675 chips left after the raise to 85. I call the bet.

flop: K 9 9 (two hearts). I check...Villain bets 150, I raise to 350. Like, not like? Villain has 300 left if she calls the re-raise and pushes.

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I really liek the PF call. There's no sense in raising, it hides your hand a little, and you know villian is tight so he could have heat and you let yourself get out if the flop sucks.

I hate this flop raise. First of all, don't min raise, ever, especialy here. It's bad form and wrong in principle in like 95% of situations. Min raises *can* be ok I guess when blinds are huge and/or you think it'll get him to come back at you all in and you want him to.

All you're doing here is committing him to the hand, he's probably not folding. He probably has a better hand than you as a lot of things he could have beat you here. AK, KK, QQ, JJ, AA, KJ, KQ, even KT. Indeed, the only thing I can think of a "tight player" raise in such early position PF that you're ahead is AJ/AQ, maybe QJ? With that min re-raise, you might as well just push. You're pretty much committing yourself to the hand by raising the way you did.


This would be an easy fold for me on that flop with her bet. She made a reasonable bet of around 3/4 the pot. Probably trying to protect against the flush draw or something.