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Old 01-20-2009, 04:56 AM     Post subject: First hand at the table, Good shove or bad? #1 (permalink)  
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 My very first hand at the table so my blind was put in for me and I was able to check. No reads since I just sat down.

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SB ($2.79)
Villain (BB) ($4.42)
UTG ($0.47)
MP1 ($3.53)
MP2 ($0.82)
Hero (CO) ($2)
Button ($0.60)

Preflop: Hero is CO with 3, 6
UTG calls $0.02, MP1 calls $0.02, MP2 calls $0.02, Hero (poster) checks, 2 folds, Villain checks

Flop: ($0.11) J, 5, 5 (5 players)
Villain checks, UTG checks, MP1 checks, MP2 checks, Hero checks

Turn: ($0.11) 4 (5 players)
Villain checks, UTG checks, MP1 checks, MP2 checks, Hero checks

River: ($0.11) 7 (5 players)
Villain bets $0.48, 3 folds, Hero raises to $1.98 (All-In), Villain calls $1.50

Total pot: $4.07 | Rake: $0.20

Should I have pushed?

My thinking:
My thought was (after his river bet) that he had a set of 5's and slowplayed the crap out of them and was just tossing a bet out there or he had an equal straight.
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Old 01-20-2009, 05:51 AM #2 (permalink)  
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He could have the 5, but if he checks all the way to the river and bids, maybe the river card helped him. He could have 68 or 77. I mean you need to put him on a range. Most people play very straight forward I think.
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Old 01-20-2009, 11:08 AM #3 (permalink)  
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going AI in a limped pot is for the nuts
his overbet screams omg I just got the nuts

just call imo because you're beating only trips, but you're behind bigger straights and he's most likely to have:
1. 86
2. 77
3. 75

it's very hard for him to play the hand this way if the river card didn't improve his hand
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Old 01-20-2009, 01:02 PM #4 (permalink)  
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just call imo because you're beating only trips, but you're behind bigger straights and he's most likely to have:
1. 86
2. 77
3. 75

it's very hard for him to play the hand this way if the river card didn't improve his hand
I agree. The problem I had with this hand is that I hadn't had a stellar session. In a 2 hour span I had a straight lose to a higher straight, a set lose to a flush and a flush to a higher flush....
after a while you just think "man I can't be behind again..."
Of course as we all know....you can!
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