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Originally Posted by damedley
8/16 LHE at Orleans 9 handed
1 player folds, 1 limp, next player raises, 4 folds to hero in SB with Jacks.
I would usually reraise here but I felt it would be 3 or 4 handed anyway so I just call. (Interesting decision A) BB calls, limper calls. I don't know any of these players.
Flop AA9 two suits. Checked around.
Turn T of a third suit. Checked to original raiser who bets and hero raises. (Interesting decision B)
Here I'm thinking if I get raised I can reliably fold for the same investment as calling the turn and river while maybe getting out Kings and Queens and definitely getting out KQ. If called on the turn by any of the three players I will check fold the river.
Did I play this well? I'll post the result later.
Interesting decision A isn't interesting at all, and frankly it's terrible. Why would you willingly offer the BB and limper a great price here? You need to be 3 betting. Calling could be ok if you were the BB.
Raising the turn could be okay but not for the reason you state. Original raiser is repping a hand like KT/QT here frequently and we can potentially get called down by those hands. Or we can check raise to face naked spade hands with 2 cold and get value from a Ks range-stab (let's pretend the board is 3 spades).
However, what we don't do is raise to see where we are at like you seem to be doing here. KK/QQ isn't folding here, and if I'm wrong it's frankly a shocker. And check raising the turn to check fold to a bet on the river is really really bad. How did you "see where you're at" if they bet the 3rd suit card and call the raise? There's bluffing in poker. In limit hold em, there's even value betting with a worse hand here. There's times to bloat and float, but when you're in a spot where the original raiser checks an AA9tt and bets a T of third suit turn, that's not the time.