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Posted Tue Jun 12, 2007 5:18 pm GMT by lwestatbus
Looking for opinions on how I should have played the following hand. Here's the setup:
Very loose $0.50/1.00 10-player fixed limit holdem at Stars with five players typically seeing every flop and many cold calls to raises. I was UTG with K Q. I raised in a (probably futile) attempt to clear away any weak aces and partly for value based on the way the table had been going. Five (count 'em five) callers.
Flop is K K Q Whoooeeee!!!
I had to think fast (not my strong suit) and decided that slow playing would be more suspicious than a continuation bet and I was also counting on the excess of optomistic curiosity I'd seen at the table for at least one more call from most players. I bet out but lost all but one optomist who called me down to the river. In retrospect I probably should have checked in the hopes that someone would get something. But enough about my faulty reasoning--what would you have done?
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Posted Tue Jun 12, 2007 5:48 pm GMT by xDiamond_CutteRx
In a loose game, I usually just bet my strong hands because a lot of people will overcall anyway, and oftentimes slowplaying or check-raising will actually get LESS money in the pot because it may drive out some players.
Just bet out, and then reevaluate when it comes back to you. If a player behind you raises and drives out other players, consider going for a check-raise on the turn. If a few people call, I would just bet out on the turn again, hope someone slowplayed a K, and then go for the 3-bet on a later street.
Posted Tue Jun 12, 2007 5:59 pm GMT by Ensano
def bet if you're UTG...
if so many players called 2 bets preflop you're bound to get a caller or two...
Posted Tue Jun 12, 2007 8:58 pm GMT by golddog
Also UTG with a loose table, you're likely to get reraised, from which point you can three-bet them.
Just unfortunate to lose everyone, I think.
Posted Tue Jun 12, 2007 9:00 pm GMT by Phil14312
Just bet. Gigs up pretty quick when you check and call or c/r.
I will almost never, ever, ever like 99% never slowplay a hand I raised with preflop. The only times I may consider slowplaying is flopping a nuts-type hand when I'm not the aggressor.
Posted Tue Jun 12, 2007 9:35 pm GMT by Sean_in_NJ
Bet, bet, bet. No one's calling you without a decent hand anyway. Rainbow flop? You've crippled the deck.
But I bet so many hands on the flop, everyone thinks I'm stealing anyway and get called down by small pairs, etc.
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