Did I play this wrong? Top pair w/ middle kicker
Join Date: Nov 2023
Posts: 1
Ignition - $1 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hero (BB): $100.00
UTG: $72.37
MP: $175.27
CO: $143.96
BTN: $151.70
SB: $44.29
SB posts SB $0.50, Hero posts BB $1.00
Pre Flop: (pot: $1.50) Hero has Qd 7c
UTG calls $1.00, fold, fold, fold, SB calls $0.50, Hero checks
Flop : ($3.00, 3 players) 5d 9d Qc
SB bets $2.85, Hero calls $2.85, UTG calls $2.85
Turn : ($11.55, 3 players) 3s
SB bets $10.98, Hero calls $10.98, fold
River : ($33.51, 2 players) 8c
SB bets $29.46 and is all-in, fold
SB wins $31.84
My guess is I lost to a better kicker or a two pair or maybe even a set, but I was borderline about to call.
Any suggestions?
Join Date: Oct 2022
Posts: 340
Calling turn is optimistic VS a second pot bet in a sandwich. I fold turn. I expect people to underbluff multiway, particularly to that sizing and who knows what the limper may wake up with.
Join Date: Mar 2019
Posts: 3,125
Middle kicker isn't really a thing. We beat f all but nothing burgers on the turn and as _doc_ said they are screaming TPGK+ with those sizings.
If we were shallower and the spr was 3ish it might be a different story but the limp has created a somewhat normal sized pot relatively speaking. fold turn
Join Date: Jul 2012
Posts: 1,354
keep calling his bets, make him scared by calling his bets aggressively. You have the best hand, don't let him bluff you away.
call call call is the only right line to take in this hand. call everything down. Make him earn it.
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 761
Well played. I'd probably fold turn. Seems as if your network is either very soft or very hard. Polarized in a sense.
