$2 NLHE Full Ring: Ace King off UTG +1 - My Options?

Seat 6: HankAmazon (3.50 in chips)
Seat 0: roxy11566 (1.94 in chips) - Big Blind
Seat 2: atlanta0 (1.96 in chips)
Seat 3: Metric8 (5.26 in chips)
Seat 1: baldjef (0.31 in chips)
Seat 5: obxstinger (3.03 in chips)
Seat 4: Bruno (3.30 in chips)
Seat 7: methtui (1.40 in chips)
Seat 8: dozbols (2.29 in chips) - Sitting out
Seat 9: KingmAAtib (2.96 in chips) - Small Blind

KingmAAtib: posts small blind 0.01
roxy11566: posts big blind 0.02

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to atlanta0 [Ad Ks]
baldjef: calls 0.02
atlanta0: raises 0.06 to 0.06
Metric8: calls 0.06
Bruno: folds
obxstinger: folds
HankAmazon: folds
methtui: folds
KingmAAtib: calls 0.05
roxy11566: folds
baldjef: calls 0.04

*** FLOP *** [6c 4s 2h]
KingmAAtib: checks
baldjef: checks
atlanta0: bets 0.26
Metric8: calls 0.26
KingmAAtib: folds
baldjef: folds

*** TURN *** [6c 4s 2h]

Q♥

atlanta0: ???

Continued aggression or shut down?

Why not slow down the flop ?? No need to bet on the flop and you made a big bet there ... Definitely i would shut down the turn.

check/fold the flop and turn,i dont see a reason why you should continue here

PCK said:

check/fold the flop and turn,i dont see a reason why you should continue here

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Fold on flop ? Its bad idea.

atlantafalcons0 said:

*** TURN *** [6c 4s 2h]

Q♥

atlanta0: ???

Continued aggression or shut down?

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it depends on your opponent. I would check/call and if turn not help just check/fold

I generally don't like to continue on the turn oop without at least some equity. In this case there just isn't enough going on for you to risk firing another round. The Queen is a scare card for an underpair but if you want to rep it be prepared blast away at the river too. It may work but I just don't see it as being a profitable play in the long run. I check the turn and maybe call a small bet. If he continues on the river it's time to release.

Oh, you're flop CB might have been a little large. Remember that most opponents are expecting you to continue and will call (correctly) almost any size bet with some very weak holdings. They will also fold to some very small bets if the flop misses them which will be most times. Use this to you're advantage. You should try to keep your continuation bets within a certain range, say 1/2 pot to 1 full pot, using the smaller end of your range for the times you'd be happy to take it down immediately and saving the bigger CB's for strong equity hands. This may sound backwards but most opponents take a Fit-or-Fold approach to the flop and the size of your bet won't be as important to your opponent as his own two cards. If they want to play they'll call pot if they don't they'll fold to any action.

Also, betting smaller on the flop makes it easier (cheaper) to fire a second barrel when the right conditions arise.

I would have fired less on the flop. I would then follow up on the turn with a bet/fold line. I think this should get him to fold all of his pocket pairs that havent made sets and his paired Ax hands. If he raises I would expect him to have sets, paired the turn or hands like Ah3h to Ah6h.

Definitely, I would slow down here on.

I think he has a hand he would not want to release no matter what.

I would check/fold the flop. I use to get carried away with AK. I use to think I was entitled to the pot since I had such a good hand preflop. If you need to bluff save those hands for the ones with a backdoor flush draw and even then I'd probably check/fold those too.

1) You missed the flop
2) Lot of players have seen the flop
3) The cards are all low so you aren't going to get too much respect.

you might be able to get him to fold with continued aggression, repping an overpair, but it isn't likely. And with this many people in the hand preflop you run into a greater risk of someone hitting a monster in the flop (set, 2pair, straight.) and you running dead or nearly dead already.

with this many people cbetting doesn't work often enough to be profitable.

get a feel for how sticky your table is so the bet size can price one or two in and not half the table when you are dealt two good cards. It takes a little guess and check. At lower limits this will usually mean your preflop raises need to be higher than normal, sometimes much higher. For instance, in .05/.10 right now, fairly often my preflop raises are 4-6BB simply because if i do less people will jump in with almost anything.

No need to bet that much on the flop. XF the turn.

Bet bigger preflop 8-10c that will lessen the chances of speculative stuff calling behind you. Ideally you want to be HU in position against the limper then there is more chance your cbet gets through.
Against this many players the cbet isnt going to work often enough and Id check this flop hoping it checks around so we can see a free turn.

Figaroo2 said:

Bet bigger preflop 8-10c that will lessen the chances of speculative stuff calling behind you. Ideally you want to be HU in position against the limper then there is more chance your cbet gets through.
Against this many players the cbet isnt going to work often enough and Id check this flop hoping it checks around so we can see a free turn.

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Is raising larger (5x) preflop a good thing to do in the micros? I've noticed that there are lots of limpers and they like to call with any two cards. I've been raising 3x + 1bb for each limper but they still all call so I regularly go to the flop with 4+ players in the pot when I'm holding premium cards.

atlantafalcons0 said:

Is raising larger (5x) preflop a good thing to do in the micros? I've noticed that there are lots of limpers and they like to call with any two cards. I've been raising 3x + 1bb for each limper but they still all call so I regularly go to the flop with 4+ players in the pot when I'm holding premium cards.

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Lol If you want to play at 1c-2c FR that is going to happen. Try seeing how big you have to make it before the limpers actually fold. Sometimes you have to make it as much 20-25c. Then when you catch a premium you can then bet just below their threshold to keep a few of them in.