OK to try & steal a pot that no one seems interested in?

[Dr_Jeckyl_00]

I wonder how many of you bet at a pot that no one seems interested in. After reading HOH I have tried to do more of this. What do you think, good to do, or FPS... don't ever do that...?

Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 1: QuasiFiction (565)
Seat 3: Dr_Jeckyl_00 (1655)
Seat 4: alexnlexi (2560)
Seat 5: medman2000 (2555)
Seat 8: baseball_gre (665)
QuasiFiction posts small blind (25)
Dr_Jeckyl_00 posts big blind (50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Dr_Jeckyl_00 [ 4c, Qd ]
alexnlexi folds.
medman2000 calls (50)
baseball_gre folds.
QuasiFiction calls (25)
Dr_Jeckyl_00 checks.
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 3d, As, 8d ]
QuasiFiction checks.
Dr_Jeckyl_00 checks.
medman2000 checks.
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 7s ]
QuasiFiction checks.
Dr_Jeckyl_00 bets (100)

[gumpzilla]

It's a very basic thing to do, and you should probably be doing it reasonably often. I think this is probably a good spot for it; it seems kind of unlikely that anybody has an A, and with one person to act behind you steal it doesn't look quite as much like a raw steal as it might. The thing you need to worry about before doing it is whether you're playing the kind of people who will fold a 7 when you make this bet though.

[boedeker]

1. If it were me you are 5 handed pretty early and taking a small pot here doesn't seem of much use.
2. A tricky button might raise you here.

Edit: Wow, 2 responses and 2 totally different anaylsis'. [censored] poker.

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The thing you need to worry about before doing it is whether you're playing the kind of people who will fold a 7 when you make this bet though.

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This is a good point. SB has checked twice and the pot would be a nice addition to his stack, so he almost always will fold. However, the button has a big stack and some people at the $11s will coldcall with nothing as well as an Ace. So you'd have to be feeling frisky to pull this off.

Many times the guy with the ace won't bet it on the flop