[Closed] NL100 [67s] - loose raise from MP

my thoughts on this: if you want to call a UTG raise with such type of hands, you can't just play fit or fold because he has you crushed, and when you hit it will be obvious and you won't win a big pot in most cases. You have to (semi)bluff raise some flops in order to make it profitable. I think this flop was a very good flop to raise, cause you do have equity + you can barrel when a draw is completed on the turn.

Originally posted by cindy1985
my thoughts on this: if you want to call a UTG raise with such type of hands, you can't just play fit or fold because he has you crushed, and when you hit it will be obvious and you won't win a big pot in most cases. You have to (semi)bluff raise some flops in order to make it profitable. I think this flop was a very good flop to raise, cause you do have equity + you can barrel when a draw is completed on the turn.

agree.. +if u didnt r flop, u should deffo r turn, it s the best scarecard ever, and u have ton of fold equity so u must! raise imo, i dont see calling has so much potential, bcs u d have to make a big bluff at river to take it usually, and this wouldnt make so much of a sense since the board is so dangerous on turn that almost any halfsolid hand would actually try to raise his smallish bet for protection + build up a pot to max value

Originally posted by TheLastNail

Originally posted by cindy1985
my thoughts on this: if you want to call a UTG raise with such type of hands, you can't just play fit or fold because he has you crushed, and when you hit it will be obvious and you won't win a big pot in most cases. You have to (semi)bluff raise some flops in order to make it profitable. I think this flop was a very good flop to raise, cause you do have equity + you can barrel when a draw is completed on the turn.

agree.. +if u didnt r flop, u should deffo r turn, it s the best scarecard ever, and u have ton of fold equity so u must! raise imo, i dont see calling has so much potential, bcs u d have to make a big bluff at river to take it usually, and this wouldnt make so much of a sense since the board is so dangerous on turn that almost any halfsolid hand would actually try to raise his smallish bet for protection + build up a pot to max value

this argumantation is correct. but!!!!: In this case we actually hit, so we don't have to move here. I am just calling on the flop for sure. On the turn it's kinda close, because our goal is not to make him fold but to pay us off. I am raising there because he can easily have an overpair + fd which he can't fold. As played folding the river is fine, since this card sucks.

best regards,
TribunCaesar