TPC
Legend
Silver Level
Thanks mrjohnson, and great question!
In the video I said I played that 55 hand bad from the start. A few hands before that I took a pot down with JJ from the SB when I lead out on the flop, then I did a steal with AToff from the button and then I got the 55 hand UTG.
Now we were five handed, and I was chip leader, in retrospect, I probably should have just folded preflop. Why? Because we are five handed, I still have four players left to act behind me. So, with that raise, I'm either going to win the blinds, get called and hope a bunch of overs don't flop or one of the short stacks is going to shove over the top of me.
I really didn't want to call a shove with 55 there. I'm a strong believer in never open limping a pot. So, I believe the correct move is to just fold the hand preflop. The second option was to min raise and then lead out against him and hope that A didn't hit him. He was folding 80% to flop bets so if he missed the flop he is folding, that would have been cheaper for me in the long run.
When I played that hand, I checked the flop, assuming he would check behind or bet if he hit something. I wasn't expecting such a small bet from him, so to be honest, I was kinda confused. Part of my thought process was, if I call here and he doesn't have anything, we might be able to check it down and get to the showdown cheap. A lot of these passive players will do that, take a stab at a pot, get called and then shut down. I was kinda hoping he would do the same, and that's not what happened. So, like I said, just a poorly played hand by me. You'll never play every hand perfect, you just need to make sure when you make mistakes, they don't cost you a huge portion of your stack.
