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Waz1892:
Couple of puzzles for me last night in one hand, nothing major, but something i "struggle" with knowing the best move, so looking for opinions from better players please.

If this is basic play, then apologies!  ::)

$50"000 - Mini series last night. 

Blinds 250/500.  No reads on opp other than fairly tight.

I have 17k, opp has 18k.  I"m in BB with 55.   folded to mid position who raises 1250.

Dilemma 1 - Do I call or raise.   Playing in the blinds for me is a major problem, as i never seem to know what to do.  My thinking in this hand is  if I re-raise, and he flats I"m out of position with a small pair, or worse he 4bets I have to fold.

If I call I"m hoping to hit a 5, if not easy to get away with.  Am I thinking correctly?

AMRN:
Not really a re-raising hand with your stack size - as you say, you don"t have any room to c-bet/fold if he calls your preflop raise, and given your only read is that he"s tight, it"s likely that he"s raising premium and will call your 3-bet in position.  Only want to be re-raising here if it"s a shove, but with 34x you"re too deep to shove.

To call will cost you 750 - and you should be thinking about getting his whole stack if you hit.... so 750 to win 18k (+blinds)..... implied odds are fine to call and set-mine....... but be ready to check/fold if no 5 on flop - don"t get married to the hand if you miss the set.

Marty719:
I think what Steve says is pretty good in a vacuum, but a lot depends on villain tendancies.  If this is readless then folding seems the best pre.  If villain opens a lot and folds to 3bs a large %, then we can make this 4k and expect to pick it up a lot with given stack sizes.  If villain overplays single pair hands, then we can peel and c/f 90% of flops.  We can occasionally donk non-broadway flops and have 1 shot at it against passive villains.

So yea - as always in poker....it depends.  In the readless/"fairly" tight case u have mentioned then folding is better.

One other point is if they were an absolute nit, then peeling is always good as we can assume when we hit our set we get a full double.

Pears27:
I flat it pre but probably lead out (1/2 to 2/3 pot) on any dry flop - if your tight read is right he"ll fold his overs, if he calls / re-pops you"ve got M=18 or so behind when you get out of the way.

Three replies, three different lines. Isn"t poker great...

LongshanksED:

--- Quote from: AMRN on October 04, 2010, 09:24:26 AM ---
Not really a re-raising hand with your stack size - as you say, you don"t have any room to c-bet/fold if he calls your preflop raise, and given your only read is that he"s tight, it"s likely that he"s raising premium and will call your 3-bet in position.  Only want to be re-raising here if it"s a shove, but with 34x you"re too deep to shove.

To call will cost you 750 - and you should be thinking about getting his whole stack if you hit.... so 750 to win 18k (+blinds)..... implied odds are fine to call and set-mine....... but be ready to check/fold if no 5 on flop - don"t get married to the hand if you miss the set.



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Everything said here. No 5 on flop I reckon I"m done with the hand. May take a pop on a dry flop. Only other flop I"m continuing with is a 234 or 346 type flops

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