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Originally Posted by mikeca
Preflop - I don't like raising AJo from the SB against a big field, but I do it sometimes against smaller field. Just felt there were too many people already in this pot.
I would have raised. But I don't think limping along is awful or anything. But there's probably some value being left on the table because you're quite happy if either of your cards pair up.
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At game speed on the flop I saw a one card OESD and bet it to make sure it didn't check through. Thinking about this, I have serious doubts this is good idea. Someone else probably has a J also.
I would lean more towards checking here. This has more to do with the fact that this board is extremely favorable to limping hands and I don't think it gets checked through. I just don't think that's the thing to worry about here.
I also think that because you've got a one-card draw, that your draw isn't as strong. You're not as happy seeing this flop capped as you are holding QJ on a T9x flop. I think you should be a little more hesitant, like when you have 87 and the flop is T9x. Yes, you're pretty sure your J outs for the straight are good, but after you hit it, you've got something to worry about.
On this board, KJ/J8 are crushing you, and the other Jx hands (QJ, JT, J9), are semi-free-rolling against you if they're out there. It's not a situation where you're *that* happy to just blindly pump the pot.
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I was planning to check the turn if I did not make a straight, but when the A came, I bet again. I'm not sure that was a good play either.
Given the flop action (aka, just calls), this should be an easy bet. Yeah, someone may be slowplaying something, but you can't assume that someone has two pair when they've put in no bets/raises.
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I think KJ would have raised the turn so I think my hand is good, but I may be splitting the pot with and another Jx. I bet the river planning to call a raise.
This smells like MUBS-y thinking (even if you didn't succumb to it). You bet the flop on the strength of your draw, and when it comes in you start to worry that it's not good. You hit the hand you wanted to hit, and so just bet it.
As for calling the raise when it comes back around, heads up I call (because you don't have the nuts and it's a tough board to value raise worse on), but if there are two opponents and only a single raise back to me, I probably 3-bet it because almost certainly one of them is donating dead money. That's enough overlay (plus the action doesn't indicate KJ) for me to try to squeeze out extra money.