Weird Hand

[gopnik]

I'd raise the flop for value, the rest looks fine.

[gopnik]

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In this huge pot, you stand a good chance at getting the best hand protection you can muster, even if that's not much.


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If we want to protect, we need to bet the flop hoping UTG-2 will raise us. If we want value, then we c/r and trap.
I go for protection here because pot is huge, so, I think betting the flop is better.

[GTSamIAm]

I agree. I bet the flop hoping whats his face after me would raise and force the blind out. But I should have 3-bet for value since I had no way to protect my hand postflop in this huge pot. Thanks for the advice.

[bozlax]

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3-bet flop.

Edit - Take it back, I think I would consider c/r'ing the flop.

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I agree. In this huge pot, you stand a good chance at getting the best hand protection you can muster, even if that's not much.

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Are you the least bit worried that against an unknown, even though he capped pf, this might check through? UTG+2 might not believe in continuation betting with AK, he might be trying to be tricky, whatever. Since he's a complete unknown I think the proper course is to ram-n-jam until you meet a level of resistance that convinces you he's holding AA or JJ.

[nomadtla]

yeah SB play makes no sense to me unless it's maybe 99-77 with a missaplied call flop/raise turn idea, or AK/AQ [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] but I think he would have called your raise with that. I think UTG had AA or QQ. I think you played it fine.