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deebeedubbs
Rising Star
Bronze Level
Hi all,
First time posting here and a new player, so please bear with my inexperience. I've been playing a very casual weekly $5 buy-in game with friends and I got put into a tricky situation last week.
There were 8 people at the table and everyone plays pretty loosely. I raised from middle position for 3bb with JTs and got called from late position preflop.
Flop came down JKKr and I led out for a little over 1/2 pot. I think that that was my first mistake-probably should have checked it, since check-calling at least until the river seems like a better approach. But...that's not what happened.
Villain raised me to a little over two times the size of my bet. I figured the following: this guy has a jack and wants the pot to end, this guy has a king and is oddly choosing not to slow play it, he doesn't put me on anything and is raising with an underpair, or it's a bluff. I didn't put him on QQ or AA since I would think that he would have 3bet preflop. If he had the J, which made the most sense to me, then he likely had me outkicked, though I had seen this player play very loosely in the past and he could have QT, AQ, AT, J9 or J8, I suppose.
So I had put myself into a really tricky situation by betting out on the flop, expecting at most a call. A mistake. What plan would you take for playing this hand? What should my course of action have been facing the raise? A re-raise to represent a king and try to get the pot over with, expecting only a king to call/raise? Then I'd know where I stand and I could get out of the pot easily in future streets. Folding seems a little conservative.
The rest of the hand proceeded pretty dumbly, largely because of the bad situation I got into on the flop.
Thanks for the help--this hand has replaying in my head for a while and I need some resolution!
First time posting here and a new player, so please bear with my inexperience. I've been playing a very casual weekly $5 buy-in game with friends and I got put into a tricky situation last week.
There were 8 people at the table and everyone plays pretty loosely. I raised from middle position for 3bb with JTs and got called from late position preflop.
Flop came down JKKr and I led out for a little over 1/2 pot. I think that that was my first mistake-probably should have checked it, since check-calling at least until the river seems like a better approach. But...that's not what happened.
Villain raised me to a little over two times the size of my bet. I figured the following: this guy has a jack and wants the pot to end, this guy has a king and is oddly choosing not to slow play it, he doesn't put me on anything and is raising with an underpair, or it's a bluff. I didn't put him on QQ or AA since I would think that he would have 3bet preflop. If he had the J, which made the most sense to me, then he likely had me outkicked, though I had seen this player play very loosely in the past and he could have QT, AQ, AT, J9 or J8, I suppose.
So I had put myself into a really tricky situation by betting out on the flop, expecting at most a call. A mistake. What plan would you take for playing this hand? What should my course of action have been facing the raise? A re-raise to represent a king and try to get the pot over with, expecting only a king to call/raise? Then I'd know where I stand and I could get out of the pot easily in future streets. Folding seems a little conservative.
The rest of the hand proceeded pretty dumbly, largely because of the bad situation I got into on the flop.
Thanks for the help--this hand has replaying in my head for a while and I need some resolution!
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