AstroCreeper

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15 minutes at this home game and you'd understand why i raised even OOP with only AQo. Almost everyone limps every hand until someone raises. I'd say the average pot is $15 and usually around $500-1000 on the table by the end of the night. It's ridiculous, and highly profitable for someone trying to build a roll. It's a college dorm game, so many newbies who've barely even played. Add in the regulars who base their entire masculinity on how big of a bluff they can make / making the most ridiculous calldowns, and you have juicy-ness.

Since no one really cares...I call, he's got j7. Turn's a brick. River's a club. Ding! He said he almost just called and would have pushed the turn on a brick and if I check (which I probably would have). Do I fold to his turn push? I thought I would have to, even with my 12 outs.

Playing 9 handed home cash game w/ .25-.50 blinds. 4 limpers to me in big blind. I look at AcQd. I raise to $3, a standardish raise. All four others call including SB. Flop comes JcTc7c. SB checks, I bet $5, 2 folds, button calls, SB pushes for $18 more. What do ya'll think I should do here? I decided to call. Button, who is fairly LAG, then pushes all in for my stack, $60 more. Now what do I do??? More info - after button pushes, the SB laughs at says I'm drawing dead. While I'm deciding about my all in, someone else looks at SB's hands, also starts to laugh, starts looking throug

Interesting hand...I'd probably lead out for about half the pot, hopefully he'll think you made your straight and fold. If he calls, you've got either a lot of really good outs, you're already winning, or you'll have to reevaluate. On the river, I'd think a 7,8,9 or diamond would be winners. However, it's tough to know if all your outs are good here. If he just smooth calls he could doing anything from calling with big cards and a bigger flush draw to calling with a pair of 7s or 8s to ??? It might not be a bad play to just check the turn again, watch how he bets and then either make a ba

If you read my OP, I argue that straddling is good at a really tight table, i.e. lots of tight PF folds and weak limps. If you play at a table that already raises and re-raises PF, of course straddling isn't effective - the table is already LAG.

i had QhTh, flop came Qd8h2h.

What is everyone's thoughts on straddling? I tend to not do it unless the table is really tight. Straddling tends to loosen people up and makes people bluff more often in my opinion. I know it also depends on how you like to play your straddle. I say this because I straddled for 5 consecutive rounds last night, the 1st time everyone folded back to me (half of the players not even understanding what a straddle was, they thought I had looked at my cards and min raised UTG). 2nd time 5 people limped. 3rd and 4th times people re-raised preflop and I folded trash cards. 5th time MP raised, I

First hand of the night playing .5/1 live. I'm on the button with QhTh (bought in for $80). 4 limpers, gets to me, I limp, SB raises to 4 dollars (he bought in for $50). Button folds. 2 callers, then I call. Pot = 19 bucks preflop. Flop comes Qd8h2h. Checks around to me. I bet 8 bucks. SB raises me 10 more. Both MPs fold. Back to me. First question. What would you do here? I know this guy to be a good player, likes to bully sometimes, likes to slow play other times, so first hand of the night I really don't know what he has. I figured he could have as good as AA or KK or as bad

What ended up happening OP?

Stick another 25 in there...the two guys calling probably have either a 9 or lower pocket pair. I'm paying off a ten here no matter what...Just moving all-in might scare away a 9 or lower pocket pair. I wouldn't check.

Why not make a smallish raise on the flop. Hopefully he calls. If he checks the turn, which he probably will, check behind him. Hopefully he'll see this as a chance to steal on the river and bet. Then you can make another value raise. If the flop raise scares him off, you probably weren't getting anything more out of him anyways? Or not...

Move in. It's heads up, 10 people didn't see the flop. The likelihood of him making that river flush is low, the likelihood he's got the nuts to your second nuts is even lower. Without a really awesome read on the guy, I'm moving in every time - why let the guy hold on to just enough chips to play all in poker until you decide to get it in with who knows how good of odds. Ending a heads up match is the hardest part - here's your chance...I'm not passing it up. And having 400 vs. 670 in chips if you lose - that's result based thinking = a great way to lose.

I ended up calling. He flips over q9. He said the only reason he called preflop was because it was SOOTED. He managed to donk off most of it back to me an hour later when he thought his two pair was good on a 4straighted board. In the long run, this guy is my source of income, I figure the KK hand was just a short term investment. Thanks for the replies guys.

Playing 8 handed .25/.5 no limit. Table is fairly loose. I'm CO with KsKc. UTG and UTG +1 limps. I raise to $3. Button, SB, BB, UTG, and UTG+1 all call. Flop comes rainbow Q94. SB moves all in for $28. Folded to me. What do I do? I had been sitting at the table for about an hour, had seen the guy lose half his stack with TPTK on a 3straight and 3flush board (other guy had a flush). But the guy was fairly selective preflop. I thought a) he's got QT,QJ,QK,AQ and just wants to take down the big pot right now, B) made a loose limp with Q9 and is protecting against draws. Didn't think