Blinds $1-$2, game is $2-$100 spread-limit, most you can raise is $100 over the previous bet. Effective stack $400. I’m not Hero.

Hero limps UTG with Kh2h, CO limps, Button limps, SB calls BB checks.

Flop KdKs2c (pot: $10, 5-ways.) BB checks, Hero checks, Checks around.

Turn: KdKs2c 6d. BB checks, Hero bets $8, CO calls, BB calls.

River: KdKs2c 6d 4h (pot: $35, 3-ways). BB leads for $20. Hero raises to $60. CO folds. BB reraises to $160.

Hero calls or raises to $260?

Obvious re-raise is obvious, though the open limp UTG pre was atrocious.

You put in as much money as the casino will allow you to

You're not really deep enough to start worrying about being coolered. If you got coolered it is what it is but there's plenty of hands the villain would do this with that you beat. He could of checked his option with AK as many 1/2 players would do or slow played another king so I'm gonna get as much money from him as I can just in case but the question is what are you doing in there with K2 utg then??? These horrible calls pre usually lead to us getting stacked when we didn't have to.

So weird. Any reads on BB?

There's a possibility we're getting coolered by K6 or K4, but it's hard for me to credit BB for checking flop and just check-calling turn with trip K's when the BDFD appears.

I'd think BB having 66 would make more sense here, and he's putting hero on KX, but not a boat.

I think we need to raise again, pray BB has 66 and wants to get the rest in.

RESULT: Hero calls. Villain tables KT, Hero wins.

I think it’s a really interesting spot because our game is $2-$100 spread-limit with $1-$2 blinds.

Like, if this were a true Limit game—if this were $2-$4 LHE—then the River action would go Villain bets $4, Hero raises to $8, Villain re-raises to $12, Hero re-re-raises to $16, Villain re-re-re-raises to $20….like, at that point, Hero is just flicking in a call, V is not putting in 6 bets without the nuts.

But in this weird middle game, where it’s KINDA like $50-$100 limit but with $1-$2 blinds….it’s just much trickier, I think. Your decision on whether to 4-bet with a non-nutted hand isn’t just costing you two big bets if you’re wrong, it’s going to cost you 100 big blinds (unless we are folding K2 on a KK642 board getting 6.5 to 1, which is insane.)

So I don’t know. I just witnessed this hand—I’m pretty sure I would have raised to $260—but I’ve been thinking about it a lot and I’m not so sure the Hero was wrong.

Counterpoint.

It's a limped pot against BB. He has literally all the combos of KX, only six of which beat us, as well as 3 combos of 66, and likely some 44. Not raising here is leaving a ton of money on the table. If we aren't going to shovel in money with a flopped boat, what are we even limping K2s in EP for? /s

Seems close. Sure he can have 44 66 maybe 35 but is he really going to do this with trips no kicker? I guess he did but that seems really spewy and there were no reads given that he overplays and or can’t hand read.

I would probably raise because he can’t fold his overplays and underfulls.