My first day in NL1000, a QJs hand

[Jonny]

Party NL1000

Button seems to be in a lot of hands, and pretty aggressive.


CO ($1530.2)
Button ($1702.48)
SB ($314.4)
Hero ($1000)
UTG ($905)
UTG+1 ($822.5)
MP1 ($700)
MP2 ($896)
MP3 ($287.25)

Preflop: Hero is BB with Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]. SB posts a blind of $5.
<font color="#666666">4 folds</font>, MP3 calls $10, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Button raises to $35</font>, SB (poster) calls $30, Hero calls $25, MP3 folds.

Flop: ($115) 6[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 3[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
SB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $100</font>

Comments?

[Jonny]

Plan for the rest of the hand? And was it good to bet the flop?

[Garland]

If there is no established play so far (i.e. how you regularily play your monsters vs other hands), then I prefer to let an aggressive button bet and then check-raise him to pick up bluff money. This also saves money in the rare instance that SB was sandbagging a monster.

Garland

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And was it good to bet the flop?

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I dunno, depends, but if you're going to bet out, I definitely think you should bet less, something like 40%-70% pot. This is a pretty dry, drawless flop. Betting a smaller amount has the same desirable effects in terms of hand protection without putting as much money at risk.