Recent Hand .. Bad Call?

Here ya go guys, critique away:

6 handed 1/2 NL table in mid position with 5s 6s. The action is folded to me, I open with a raise to 5.00, folded around to the SB (who is pretty hard to read) and he reraises to 10.00, BB folds, I make the call.

Pot: 22.00

Flop: Ks 6c 4s

The SB immediately pushes, has my remaining stack of 25.00 covered, forcing me to a decision for all my chips with mid pair, flush draw.

What would ya'll do?

Result: I feel like he has at best AK, feel like gambling, make the call, only for him to show KK, lose the pot when blanks hit the turn and river.

Just wondering how everyone else would have played it. Thanks.

You may be good on the flop, and if not you have outs most of the time. You said he was hard to read and he could have been making a powerplay, butthat's how these loose aggressive players get paid. You seem a little shortstacked as well. You may have been able to fold pre-flop and save the trouble, but given the flop and the player it was an ok call.

You should have folded. Even with the flush draw, it could have easily been beat by a higher one. And your middle pair certainly didn't justify the call.

i would have to say that it could go either way i dont think that it would have been quite a smart move for all my chips but then gain soemtimes you just can feel itcome but other times not so i would say it wasnt a bad call but mabe not a good one either

If you put him on a K, then that was a bad call. That re raise narrows down his range and his range was probably 1010+

It really depends on what you feel his range is. Do you have PT3? This could let you know what his range is and determine what he is holding. I never like when people say they are in the mood for gambling. At best you have all the remaining spades which are 9 outs and to pair your cards 5 outs. If you put him on a set then you lose all your outs that either give you a pair or a set and he might have two bigger spades which would give you less outs on the other end.

I would have laid the hand down and probably not raised in the first place. When he calls your raise you probably should assume that you are beat unless you hit a miracle card that doesn't improve his hand

Text results appended to pokerstove.txt

65,340 games 0.002 secs 32,670,000 games/sec

Board: Ks 6c 4s
Dead:

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 54.738% 54.74% 00.00% 35766 0.00 { 6s5s }
Hand 1: 45.262% 45.26% 00.00% 29574 0.00 { TT+, ATs+, KJs+, AKo, KQo

I think that range is alright so it's a call. The real question here is why do you have $35 at a 1/2 NL table? You shouldn't be playing 56s when you have a very very short stack.

exactly what I was thinking. It's obv the right call the way it was play BUT that is too short to play any two cards at that table.

If you have to, then you should have a push/fold strategy; meaning do not raise with low suited connectors (for further reading read shortstack strategy). only play for an all in or fold- you don't have to go all in pre per se, but you should be ready to do it after the flop whether being the initial raiser or the caller. so low suited cons gotta go shortstacked.

Nothing wrong with a little Gamble.

Hey you gave it a shot.
Nothing wrong with that.

Mid pair
K on the Flop
I would have folded in this situation.

If you would have had the opportunity to push instead of call.
Then I would have pushed in this situation.
But that wasn't the case.

Timing can be everything in hold em.
May we all make the right decisions at the right time.

Good Luck.