Turn Decision

[Sent]

Party Poker 1/2 Hold'em (10 handed)

Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with 8[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. UTG posts a blind of $1.
UTG (poster) checks, Hero calls, UTG+2 calls, MP1 folds, MP2 folds, MP3 folds, CO calls, Button folds, SB completes, BB checks.

Flop: (6 SB) K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(6 players)</font>
SB checks, BB checks, UTG checks, Hero checks, UTG+2 checks, CO checks.

Turn: (3 BB) 4[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(6 players)</font>
SB checks, BB checks, <font color="CC3333">UTG bets</font>, Hero ???

What do you do?

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[Bez]

Tough choice. I'd have thought someone had an A or K given the number of pre-flop callers but why no action? You could call down but I prefer a fold here. UTG may have slowplayed a K and the two players behind are a worry, despite being passive on the flop.

[zuvis]

This is a raise or fold decision.

The pot is small, but you have great relative position to try and knock people out.

However, I think this is an easy fold, if the pot was bigger, then raise, but in this spot I fold.

[Quercus]

I fold.

Most passive players who don't have a K in their hand will freeze up on the flop - and then feel emboldened to bet their actual hand only once its safely checked through. If the bet was from the CO and there was a chance to get HU, I might do that, but I'm folding to an EP bet here.

[zuvis]

Quercus, I fold here as well, as I said above, but I think the main concern here is the pot size.

UTG posted, so there is no reason to suspect he has anything other than 2 cards, but this pot just doesn't seem like its worth fighting for.

I agree completely about the passives not raising the flop without a K, which is why if I play the hand, I raise the flop.

[Sent]

I folded it, bettor took it down on the river when everyone else folded.

River was an 8 btw, but that changes nothing.

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