Small Blind Hand

[McNeese72]

Okay, I'm in a learning mode today. When I get tempted to play hands like these out of the small blind, I'm always worried about an overcard coming or getting outkicked if I don't make a flush.

I don't have much reads on any of the players other than MP2 is a little loose.

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Preflop: Hero is SB with Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
UTG calls, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, MP2 calls, CO calls, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Hero completes, BB checks.

Flop: (5 SB) T[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(5 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, BB calls, UTG calls, <font color="#CC3333">MP2 raises</font>, CO calls $0.50 (All-In), Hero calls, BB folds, UTG calls.

Okay, I have top pair with a mediocre kicker and a backdoor flush draw, so I bet to see what happens. When MP2 raises, I figure he has a Q and I start worrying whether he has a bigger kicker or two pair. I call anyway because the pot is getting big.

Turn: (7 BB) K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(4 players, 1 all-in)</font>
Hero checks, UTG checks, MP2 checks.

Okay, with the flush draw, I probably should have bet here but the overcard and MP2 flop raise scared me and I checked. Sometimes I'm a whimp.

River: (7 BB) 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(4 players, 1 all-in)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, UTG folds, MP2 calls.

Final Pot: 9 BB

With everybody checking with the K turn card and the blank falling on the river, I bet out to see what happens. Should I have checked?