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Big 33 button spot early stages

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February 24, 2014 - 6:48 am

Poker Stars $30+$3 No Li

mit Hold'em Tournament – t15/t30 Blinds – 9 players – View hand 2438756
TournamentPokerEdge.com Hand History Converter

litofcas11 (CO): t5148 171.60 BBs
Hero (BTN): t2015 67.17 BBs
dalfactor (SB): t2472 82.40 BBs
kostas.hooks (BB): t3180 106 BBs
litleSharky (UTG): t4290 143 BBs
benzi1986 (UTG+1): t1215 40.50 BBs
Admiraalis (UTG+2): t6015 200.50 BBs—VPIP 60 PFR 3 3B 6.3 AGGF 3.8
Agentul05 (MP1): t2715 90.50 BBs
Smirnovsky (MP2): t2970 99 BBs———VPIP 18 PFR 3 3B 0 AGGF 0.6

Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN with J of diamonds T of spades
2 folds, Admiraalis calls t30, 1 fold, Smirnovsky calls t30, 1 fold, Hero raises to t120, dalfactor calls t105, kostas.hooks calls t90, Admiraalis calls t90, Smirnovsky calls t90

Flop: (t600) 7 of spades J 8 of clubs (5 players)
dalfactor checks, kostas.hooks checks, Admiraalis checks, Smirnovsky checks, Hero bets t264, dalfactor folds, kostas.hooks folds, Admiraalis calls t264, Smirnovsky calls t264

Turn: (t1392) 6 of clubs (3 players)
Admiraalis bets t510, Smirnovsky calls t510, Hero ?

Both villains had been playing terribly. I thought this was a good spot to play in position and win some chips from the fish. Is the preflop raise size ok? or should I just limp behind? Flop bet? and wtf on the turn? Should I just jam? or fold?

Sen

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February 24, 2014 - 10:59 am

Weired ugly spot. I'd fold, you got 2 people in the pot, a better J, a set, T9 are all in their range. Even if Smirnovsky has KQ or A9-spades he has a ton of equity and will probably never fold to a bet.

You can't flat, because except for a 9 and maybe another J we don't improve our hand. We don't want to see a Q,K,A,T or any spade.

So yeah, easy fold imo, but wait for what the pros have to say.

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February 24, 2014 - 1:17 pm

The sizing is fine, but it's worth thinking about whether this is a good spot to rase a couple of limpers with a pretty marginal hand. The 60/3 guy obviously has a wide limping range that is going to include plenty of hands that dominate you (at those stats hands like AJ and AT are limps), and once he calls your raise then you have to expect MP2 is likely to come along as well. Having position vs weak players is valuable, but you really have to hit the hell out of the flop in order to be putting money in good on future streets.

As played, there are a lot of worse hands in their limp/calling range that you can get value from, and with the flush draw on board I wouldn't expect either of them to slow play a straight, so betting the flop is fine (I would bet/fold if check-raised unless it was a clickback); your sizing is good.

On the turn you have a stackoff decision. Top pair middle kicker on a board this wet vs two players expressing interest in the pot? No thanks.

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