On the button with an extra poster. Raise preflop with marginal hand?

[Baseballer02]

Play at the PokerRoom tables has been very tight preflop, but the play by most players is god awful postflop. I caught well, so the hand was rather straightforward, but was the preflop raise a good move since there was an extra blind posted?

PokerRoom 2/4 10-handed

Hero is dealt 4[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
Preflop: 6 folds, poster checks, Hero raises, SB folds, BB calls, Poster folds.

Flop: 6[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]
BB checks, Hero bets, BB calls

Turn: 6[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 3[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]
BB checks, Hero bets, BB raises, Hero raises, BB calls

River: 6[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 3[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
BB bets, Hero raises, BB calls.


Any thoughts?

[Entity]

The whole hand looks fine to me.

[toss]

I don't see a problem PF as long as you say the blinds are tight.

[QTip]

I don't like it at all. You no longer have to fold just 2 blinds, you have to fold three players.

[shant]

I [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] this.

[QTip]

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I [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] this.

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bbooooooo...

You get 1 caller and you'll probably not even have 40% equity. The chance of getting 1 caller out of 3...pretty high. Let's have your thoughts in this thread Mr. Shant.

[shant]

I wouldn't try this with loose blinds or anyone with a VPIP > 35 in the blinds, but he said there ahd been tight preflop play going on, so now I want to steal the poster's money too. 45s is a little low for my stealing range, but can't we open that up now that someone has posted?

[QTip]

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but can't we open that up now that someone has posted?

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IMO it's just the opposite. I think it's necessary to tighten up when you have a poster or two on top of the blinds. You're more likely to get called. Especially considering we're playing SS, I'm persuaded this PF play here is -EV (and I don't think it's even close).....but...I'm always listening...

[bozlax]

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You get 1 caller and you'll probably not even have 40% equity.

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I'm totally impressed that you were this close!

Text results appended to pokerstove.txt

8,390,289,600 games 15.692 secs 534,685,801 games/sec

Board:
Dead:

equity (%) win (%) / tie (%)

Hand 1: 41.4534 % [ 00.39 00.03 ] { 54s }
Hand 2: 58.5466 % [ 00.56 00.03 ] { random }

[shant]

My boy QTip here is right. I went and downloaded PokerStove and ran it and 54s isn't ahead of random hands. I'm still not sure the extra money in the pot, our position, and FE of a flop bet doesn't change things though. 76s also comes off as 45% equity against one caller, but I'd raise that in this situation.

P.S. Thanks QTip for the motivation to download PokerStove.