How's this for post-flop play?

[pearljam]

how much should he have bet pre-flop?

[gumpzilla]

Yeah, I think it's best. I just have an ingrained dislike of lines that involve check-calling for potentially my entire stack, even though it probably is the right move here.

[Offsprung]

Bet the flop. Check/fold.

[Unarmed]

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Bet the flop. Check/fold.

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Terrible.

[suited_ace]

Unarmed, I really like your line. Just to make things clear, here's how the hand was played for me...

I raise PF (and yeah, I think I was a little bit too trigger-happy, but at the same time I'm trying to compensate for all those limpers) and get one caller. This built a large pot, and when the flop came I was torn between checking or throwing a continuation bet that would totally pot-commit me.

I chose checking and when he checked behind I was pretty sure that my hand was good. That's why I bet the turn, and I would've called a possible push from Villain, btw. The river check was a shot at CR him all-in.

How much would you have raised PF?

[suited_ace]

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Aces are pretty much death to kings at low-level buy-ins (people looove their aces) so I would probably check it down.

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This was a $55. It's not a $215, but it's not a $11 either...

[Unarmed]

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How much would you have raised PF?

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Oops. I didn't see the other limper.
Still I probably make it 175.
I want action with KK.
Plus I don't vary my PF raises by hand and if I have AK I don't want to pot stick myself.

I'm different though...
In lev 3+ when not pushing PF I generally make it 2.5BB +1/2BB for each limper. It fits my playing style better. If you're c-betting a good chunk of your whiffed AKs then the old 3BB+1 for each limper is fine.

That's pretty general advice though, every situation is different and you always want to consider what sort of pot size and remaining stack you'll have if called in one or two places.

[curtains]

When your stack equals the amount of money in the pot you should generally play it extremely strongly. You have some kind of hand and free cards could be dangerous, Id simply move allin on the flop.

Yes you probably won't get called by worse hands of course but this is irrelevant when the pot is large, what's really important to you is winning the 600 in the pot with as little problem as possible.