Another big pot, ATs

flytrap · #1 04-20-2005, 01:53 AM

Loose game at Greektown in Detroit. Blinds are 2-2-5. Utg straddles to 10. I have A [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]T [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. I call. I didn't raise because raises usually brought in around 4 callers and I didn't really want to play a big pot out of position. Surprisingly, it folds to the button who calls, and the small blind, a decent tight player makes it $40. He has about $700 which I have covered. The straddler calls, I call, and the button folds. 3 to the flop with around $140 in the pot. Flop is J [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]7 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]7 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. Preflop raiser bets $75, BB folds, I call. Pot is nearly $300. Turn is the Q [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]. He checks. What's the play?

chuddo · #2 04-20-2005, 02:10 AM

raise the flop. that said, i dont know whether to tell you to bet or go ahead and check behind and have a free draw at the dumb-nuts.

im curious as to what some of the other posters often do in this spot.

creedofhubris · #3 04-20-2005, 04:00 AM

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Loose game at Greektown in Detroit. Blinds are 2-2-5. Utg straddles to 10. I have A [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]T [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. I call. I didn't raise because raises usually brought in around 4 callers and I didn't really want to play a big pot out of position. Surprisingly, it folds to the button who calls, and the small blind, a decent tight player makes it $40. He has about $700 which I have covered. The straddler calls, I call, and the button folds. 3 to the flop with around $140 in the pot. Flop is J [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]7 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]7 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. Preflop raiser bets $75, BB folds, I call. Pot is nearly $300. Turn is the Q [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]. He checks. What's the play?

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I like raising the flop.

I like checking behind on the turn, since you did not raise. But what's your read? If you read him as weak, bombs away, fold to a check-raise (you're drawing dead anyway).