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04-01-2013 , 01:06 PM
Woke up Easter morning and had some time to kill before hanging out with family, so I headed to Parx to get a couple hours in. Bought in for $300, got to the table where almost everyone had me covered. Very aggressive table not very many limped pots preflop. Every flop was almost always a pot sized c-bet. A couple orbits in I am in the BB, somehow it is limped to me and I look down at K6, and I check. Only real reads I have at the table is UTG +1 overplays weaker hands from what I have seen.

Stacks for those involved on flop:

UTG +1: $600
UTG +2: $500
Hijack: $800
Button: $300
BB(Hero): $380

Pot:$11
Flop: K76

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04-01-2013 , 01:11 PM
Lead for around pot.
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04-01-2013 , 01:27 PM
Bet $10, possibly even $15 if you don't think $10 thins the field. Flush draws, straight draws plus KX with better kickers are all drawing to beat you, you need to charge them. Check/raise isn't out of the question if your sure that somebody bets, but at most tables in an unraised pot it will check around too often.
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04-01-2013 , 02:12 PM
I check flop hoping to repop aggressors behind me...UTG +1 leads out for $15 with both UTG +2 and Hijack flatting, Button folds to me...I don't particularly love where I am in the hand, but would like to see where I stand and get one or two of the players drawing off their hands. I end up raising to $65 with both UTG +1 and UTG +2 calling, Hijack folds. I am not upset with the calls, but am hoping for low/non spade.

Turn is 3

Completes a draw with someone holding 4 5, but other than that not a bad card.

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04-01-2013 , 03:15 PM
Pot: $221

I led for $140, UTG +1 shoved, UTG +2 fold...At that point I was getting roughly 4:1 for the rest of my stack and decided to call...Villain flipped over 76 and river was the 6...After my initial bet OTT, I felt I was pretty pot committed with ~$180 left. My question is was this a bad lead/call on my part OTT?

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04-01-2013 , 03:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Dabullz23
Pot: $221

I led for $140, UTG +1 shoved, UTG +2 fold...At that point I was getting roughly 4:1 for the rest of my stack and decided to call...Villain flipped over 76 and river was the 6...After my initial bet OTT, I felt I was pretty pot committed with ~$180 left. My question is was this a bad lead/call on my part OTT?

Thanks
I get it in on the turn and feel great about it. Its a limped pot, so we can discount KK, your holding a blocker to 66, and possibly 77 or K7 (which i dont expect UTG +1) to show up with. So realistically, your nervous about 77. But hands like KJ-K9, all flush draws, and 76 your happy to get it in. I would have led the flop, but if you were confident that someone would bet, i can get behind a c/r.

Congrats on nice sized pot!
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04-01-2013 , 08:25 PM
I agree with the lead OTT. At the game you describe, the draws might still be in there. Make them pay for it. Of all the hands that will call or raise, only 77 and 45 beat you (as jubes9 said KK is unlikely). Getting it all in is not a bad thing here.
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04-01-2013 , 10:10 PM
Bet $11. The only hand we're afraid of is 77 (no way KK limps, and if they have 66 it's sick sick sick). I guess 89 of spades or 58 of spades would technically be favored as well, but their hand isn't made yet. If raised, reraise. If shoved upon then, you gotta call (A6 of spades for example would shove here or many Ax of spades, along with OES&FD).

On the repop, I'd make it $100 to make for an easy shove OTT. $65 doesn't chase draws away, as the math makes (11 + 15 + 15 + 15 + 15 + 50 = $121) a caller having about 2.5 to 1 odds. Making it $100 denies the odds (11 + 15 + 15 + 15 + 15 + 85 = $156), or about 1.8 to 1 odds.

Now the 3 OTT is a sort of sticky card with so many players. Our hand still rates to be best, but it becomes harder to force draws out if even one player calls any bet. It's either all in with our stack size or pot control, as it's $221 OTT. I would shove here.

I don't like the $140 bet. It leaves us with $170 and the pot, with just one caller, becomes $500 (IE our stack size shouldn't force anyone out). But congrats on the nice pot!
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