Quote:
Originally Posted by Chicken Feed
Game is weekly local 1/2 game
I understand position and play the majority of my hands from the CO, HJ, and BTN but every now and again I pick up somewhat premiums from the EP and feel I am basically handing $$$ over by raising into a multi-limped pot.
An easy example would be that I just recently had AJs in the BB and there was 5 limpers in the pot when action returned to me. So should I just be checking my option essentially playing this hand as if it were J-10s where I would definitely want to see a flop? or should I try and narrow the field with a nice sized raise?
Also if AJs if way too weak of a holding to raise from the BB in a multi-limped pot how about A-Qs? should that fall into the same category as AJs or should I play it with more strength? If so on either of these hands (AJs / AQs) from BB what is a good amount to raise into an $14 pot?
Also it should be noted that the majority of players in this game are there to socialize and most likely get away from there wives for a bit. They are there to gamble and to see flops. An average limp / calling range for most V's at this table consists of any suitors / connectors plus all face cards and any A-x hand. With a range being this wide it is hard to put opponents on hands once the flop comes out, be it wet or dry, especially if OOP.
Thanks for any advice
-CF
I think "narrow the field" is one of those terms everyone is better off just deleting from their poker vocabulary.
If it limps to you, AJs is almost certainly the best hand.
If you raise, you may win a significant number of big blinds outright which is nice.
You may get 1 or 2 callers which is nice.
And you might get 6 callers, which while difficult to play and while you will win the hand much less often, will still be +EV because they are putting money in with weaker hands.
If raising $20 gets a multitude of callers I would start raising larger amounts, not because getting the whole table to put in 10bb with a worse hand is a bad result but because apparently I can do even better.