Sometimes it pays to gamb00l

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raise the turn to protect against overcards

[cartoonsoldier]

Raising the turn is important here, thats the best way to protect your hand here. I wouldn't even mind a raise on the flop though.

If you were really doing "gamb00l" you would be raising at every opportunity.

[PokerBob]

MP1 had A2s.

[frank_iii]

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I've seen some PP players cap preflop with K9o, but these kind of players are rare, even for party.

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But it's an auto-add to the buddy list. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Last night a player limp/capped with 87o. Of course, he did hit a straight to beat my AA so what do I know?

I agree with everyone else on this hand that you need to raise the turn. I would have raised the flop, too.

[BradleyT]

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I agree with everyone else on this hand that you need to raise the turn. I would have raised the flop, too.

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Raising the flop probably doesn't give you the opportunity to raise the turn. That's why you wait till the turn (double bet size) on a hand like this (non-scary board).

[Nottom]

You need to raise the turn.

[Nottom]

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What do you guys think about folding this preflop?

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Not with a limper and a cold-caller involved.

[jar]

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Gamble???? This is about as passively as you could've played here. MP1's reraise looks like an attempt to get head up with the almost all-in UTG+1.
The preflop cap is good. Raise the flop. If he calls then checks, bet the turn, if he calls then bets or 3 bets the flop call down. Obviously raise the river.

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The gamble part was the preflop cap. The later passivity was me seeing weak tight monsters under the bed. My basic thought process was, raise and a reraise, damn, overpair, but I don't want to fold these pretty pocket jacks, so I hit the cap button. Then I was thinking well, you made the pot huge, call down and see his AA-KK. Then I hit the jack, and the river raise is obvious. When MP1 complained in the chat after the showdown, I assumed I had been correct. Then I looked at the hand history, and remembered that this is .50/1 on party.

[Entity]

If capping preflop with JJ in a 7-way pot is gambling, then I'm a hopeless addict. I'd cap here for value with a lot less.

Oh, as many others have said, you need to raise the turn. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Rob

[btspider]

Shouldn't Hero just be calling PF here? He wants to encourage the blinds to stay around and see if the original raiser caps. SSH lists JJ in this situation as 'play'.