Did i play this right?

was playing a live cash game(2-5, players: 9) i had bought in with just $100 and at this point had risen to $140 almost everyone else ~$300-500, was a fresh table, ~10-15 hands in im dealt KK in MP. Blind is called/folded to me, i raise it to $20, two other MP calls, and button calls.

Flop comes; 5c - As - 8d
I bet $20 (more or less a c-bet after seeing the ace)
1 MP folds
villian calls
button calls
Turn comes; 9h
I check (being unsure of the ace after 2 callers)
villain bets $50
button folds
I fold.

I assumed he had the ace after the call and bet on the turn, although i have started to think that he may have had something more like a 99,10-10, or JJ. assuming i had raised pre with something along the lines of KQs and such, and after the check decided to take the opportunity to represent a weak ace.

Please help clear my mind!

He could have literally had anything at this point as people will call wide to a raise like that pre. You then c-bet 1/4th pot get two callers and check the turn. odds are you're pretty much beat and folding was the correct move on the turn.

Was this a 2/5 NL game? If so, buy in with $500 and make it more preflop.

jordanbillie said:

Was this a 2/5 NL game? If so, buy in with $500 and make it more preflop.

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Pretty much my thoughts. If you can't buy-in full to 2/5, drop down and play 1/2 with a full buy-in. Also, I know you said you were new to the table, but if multi-way pots have been the norm, you need to bet this bigger pre to thin the herd a little bit.

Your post-flop $20 bet is just spew. Its less than 1/4 PSB and with that many players it won't accomplish much. Against 3 other players you WILL get called by somebody. So, if you are going to bet the flop at all (highly questionable v. 3 opponents who all have position on you), you need to make your bet significantly bigger. Just realize that if you do this, you are essentially turning your hand into a bluff.

As for me, I hate to, but I'm against 3 opponents and out of position, I'm Check/calling a smallish flop bet and Check/folding to any significant betting.

Big_Rudy said:

Also, I know you said you were new to the table, but if multi-way pots have been the norm, you need to bet this bigger pre to thin the herd a little bit.

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just to clarify when i said fresh, i meant the table had just opened, so the 10-15 hands was how many that table had played all day, so not not much to base any player stats on.

And also, yeah i didn't buy in for as much as i could have, but i had some luck starting with just 200 the other day, with a decent triple up, and wanted to see if i could do the same with 100 and try maximise profits with minimal risks. But i have definitely learnt that 100 in 2-5 is very luck dependant, and not really worth the time.

lukyl1 said:

... and wanted to see if i could do the same with 100 and try maximise profits with minimal risks.

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It's one or the other. How is buying in with the minimum maximizing your profits?

lukyl1 said:

... wanted to see if i could do the same with 100 and try maximise profits with minimal risks.

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jordanbillie said:

It's one or the other. How is buying in with the minimum maximizing your profits?

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Yeah, you're thinking about this all backwards. By buying in for the minimum, you're actually minimizing your profit potential. Terrible if you feel you have a skill advantage over the majority of the table. Regardless, you defintely want to at least have the worst players at the table covered - they're the ones most likely to give you their stacks, and you can't really do that if you are sitting short-stacked.