First Time Post need advise

[BulldogMafia]

Hey first time posting and need your advise on the following play. For your info this is a ring game table at Pokerroom, DreamLeader seems like a solid player while I have seen 8bitar chase 2 flushes (and get them for wins). Table has been very passive to this point with most people taking the pots pre flop.


Texas Hold'em $2-$4 NL (real money), hand #921,596,903
Table Kassel, 21 May 2005 5:26 PM ET

Seat 1: DreamLeader
Seat 3: Mav2029
Seat 4: bautotrimm
Seat 5: 8bitar
Seat 6: BulldogMafia [ AC,AD ]
Seat 7: WildWilliam
Seat 8: VIZ14
Seat 9: snwbrdr3448
Seat 10: thorinx
ANTES/BLINDS
Mav2029 posts blind ($1), bautotrimm posts blind ($2).

PRE-FLOP
8bitar calls $2, BulldogMafia bets $7, WildWilliam folds, VIZ14 folds,
snwbrdr3448 folds, thorinx folds, DreamLeader calls $7, Mav2029 folds,
bautotrimm folds, 8bitar calls $5.

FLOP [board cards 5D,7S,JH ]
8bitar checks, BulldogMafia bets $5, DreamLeader calls $5, 8bitar calls $5.

TURN [board cards 5D,7S,JH,QS ]
8bitar checks, BulldogMafia bets $10, DreamLeader bets $20, 8bitar calls
$20, BulldogMafia calls $10.

RIVER [board cards 5D,7S,JH,QS,AS ]
8bitar checks, BulldogMafia checks, DreamLeader bets $25 and is all-in,
8bitar bets $60.25 and is all-in, BulldogMafia ………

I will post the results in a few but just wanted your take…Thanks

[Marcotte]

Underbet on every street except maybe preflop.

Flop ($24): you bet $5??? Make it $15 at least
Turn ($39): you bet $10?? Get min-raised, flat-call. First, bet more like $25-$30, and re-raise the min raise.
River ($99): Check call $60 with a pot of $184 with top set? Sure, but you never should have let the UTG backdoor the flush.

[TheWorstPlayer]

You really need to brush up on pot odds and hand protection. Those underbets make me cringe.

[UttBuggly]

Hmmm...I don't like slowplaying AA. People think that's a good play, but it can bite you. I would put 8bitar on KT and/or spades since he seems to like flushes.

So, I would have gone for the cutoff play on the flop and made a pot-sized bet.

I was in a $2-5 NL game at a local casino a couple of weeks ago. I got A [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]A [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] and a flop of 5 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]A [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]7 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]. The 1st player to act was to my right and he bet $20. With 2 players yet to act, I reraised $50. The two folded and after a long consideration, the original bettor folded to the raise. I got a $40 pot...big deal. What I most certainly avoided was a folding a set of As to a [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]flush on the turn or river.

I'll take a lot of $40 pots over getting into close decisions on $400 pots.

BTW, I started the above session with $200 and cashed out for dinner with $569 for 3 hours of play.

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[swolfe]

yuck.

pot the flop. bet about 2/3 on the turn. get the rest in on the river.

posting stack sizes is also helpful for analyzing the hand.