[AKQJ10]

General context: The Foxwoods $1-2 ($40 min; $139 max) game is to my understanding typical of most small-stakes NLHE these days: lots of limping, lots of calling down with dubious hands, a few expert players who understand NLHE far better than the rest and help themselves to the fish's money. Raises of 5x or more often fail to get the field heads-up.

Table context: This was the 3rd playable hand I'd had in an our. With $35 in my stack, AJs in the cut-off and four limpers i put in a solid raise to $20 (10x) and got it heads up with VIllain. My dream flop of KQTr came but Villain wouldn't call my last $15.

My second playable hand was QQ in middle position with one limper. I raised to 17 (8.5x) but got no callers. Oops -- maybe these folks respect my raises a bit more than most Foxwoods players.

My third playable hand is the one I want to analyze:

Hero's stack: $40, smallest at table.
Hero's cards: A [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] K [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
Position: Hero is UTG.

Preflop : Hero raises to $12 (6x); Villian calls from late position; big blind calls. Pot: $37 Hero has $28 remaining.

Flop: Q [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 6 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 6 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

Flop betting: Big blind checks. Hero....?

I'll post my analysis below so before you read it, tell me yours.


I'm posting this here, not on say the SSNLHE forum, because I am essentially a NLHE beginner and I think playing the short stack game from GSiH is a very beginner-oriented topic. Some details in this hand may be inaccurate, but we can pretend they're correct and still analyze the hand based on my description. Given the choice of vague accuracy or precise but dubious detail, I've opted for the latter to give us something concrete to discuss.