Nlhe Early Stages Hand

[SpiderGuard 0]

Absolute PokerNo Limit Holdem TournamentBlinds: t25/t506 playersConverterStack sizes:UTG: t1822.50UTG+1: t1260CO: t3655Button: t3275Hero: t1240BB: t2247.50Pre-flop: (6 players) Hero is SB with J Q 4 folds, Hero calls t25 (pot was t75), BB checks.Flop: 3 A T (t100, 2 players)Hero bets t100, BB raises to t200, Hero calls t100 (pot was t400).Turn: 8 (t500, 2 players)Hero is all-in t990So my flop bet was to try to steal an unraised pot, hoping no one had an ace. What does the minraise mean? Do I fold? I think I'm beat here, but I think this was probably a donkey call on my part. So the turn is good to me. Gives me a good flush draw and an open ended straight draw. I push hoping to get out anything tens or lower, maybe some weak aces.What's the verdict?

[Yahkin 0]

I don't like the push. Look at it from the Villains viewpoint. A third card toward a flush has come and you've just pushed $990 into a $500 pot. If you had the flush, you would have bet for value...so I can safely assume you don't have that. Your flat call of my reraise on the flop tells me you don't have a strong ace. I'm putting you on a 10x with 1 heart and assume you have 9 outs and call you down with any ace.The only positive I really see is that you have the concealed straight draw giving you 6 more outs.

[dingas 0]

Fold to the flop raise. You don't have odds to draw to your gutshot. If you think his min-raise means he will fold to a raise, you can push. Then again, a call may be alright, but only if you have an idea. Did you plan to push every turn card, every heart on the turn, any turn card that improves your hand? When you make this kind of call, you need to have a plan (and some reason for believing that this idea gives you an edge compared to other options).If you want to make a play at this pot on the flop, I have two points: 1. You don't need to bet 100 on the flop - betting 50 or 75 achieves the same - most of the hands he folds he will fold for a smaller bet.2.You should consider making a check-raise bluff, because he will often bet when checked to with hands that cannot take any heat at all.

[SpiderGuard 0]

Fold to the flop raise. You don't have odds to draw to your gutshot. If you think his min-raise means he will fold to a raise, you can push. Then again, a call may be alright, but only if you have an idea. Did you plan to push every turn card, every heart on the turn, any turn card that improves your hand? When you make this kind of call, you need to have a plan (and some reason for believing that this idea gives you an edge compared to other options).

This is good advice. I think I really had no plan going in to it, but I generally called because I felt I could push him off of the hand on the turn. I'm not sure if I push the 4 of hearts there though, so I'm not sure what my plan really was.

If you want to make a play at this pot on the flop, I have two points: 1. You don't need to bet 100 on the flop - betting 50 or 75 achieves the same - most of the hands he folds he will fold for a smaller bet.2.You should consider making a check-raise bluff, because he will often bet when checked to with hands that cannot take any heat at all.

Thanks for the thoughts on the flop play. Looking at the two posts, and my own thought processes reading it the next day, I think I was way too aggressive/spewy playing this flop the way I did, at least without a plan...something definitely to think about.To the other poster, his minraise on the flop seemed to say that he wasn't going to fold to anything less than all-in, and maybe not even then. Am I reading that wrong?

[copernicus 0]

I prefer a PF raise with a medium strength hand b vs B, both because youre a favorite and it helps protect against a weak Ace pairing up when you also hit. Id read the min raise as a T, 3, or very weak Ace, so its an easy call on the flop. Turn is a no brainer semibluff