Good laydown?

I think it was and I'll share my reasoning through the hand.

Game is NLHE (blinds 1/2)

I have about $250 in chips
MP and MP+1 both have about $100
SB has about $40

UTG I'm dealt Q Q and limp in expecting to re-raise if one of several aggressive players behind me raises. We get a few limpers and nobody raises so it's multiway. I don't feel comfortable already.

Flop comes 6 4 3

Checked to me. I bet $15, overbetting the pot by just a bit. MP calls (I think he's got at least a pair or maybe a str8 draw) and MP+1 raises to $30. She's pretty solid and more of a limit player and I put her on the nut flush draw. SB then raises $9 to go all-in. He's a tight solid player so I have him on 2 pair or a better.

I fold.

Here's my reasoning:

I didn't want to get into a multi-way pot against 2 drawers in case I'm called by both of them (which is a distinct possibility with these 2). LOTS of cards could come that would help them and I figured I could find better situations to get my money in with.

If I did push and got both of them to lay down then I'm up against the only hand which is beating me at that point. Again, not a situation which I'd prefer to put myself in.

The only favorable situation was to get heads-up against one of the drawers and since they are both calling stations I was pretty sure that wouldn't happen. Hence my laydown.

I'll add more to this, including what each person really had and the results of the hand after reading the replies.

It's possible the SB limped with pocket 3's. It's quite possible you are beat already and with 2 outs to help your hand this is an easy laydown. Except for me when I am tilting, I would push lose money and get mad. Good laydown.

I say it was a good laydown. You might still have the best hand on the table....for now. But after the river you'll probably have the 2nd best, and lose a ton of money getting there.

Good laydown. Bad decision not to raise preflop, although I've done that before (not raised from EP expecting *somebody* to raise after me). It burns when you don't get raised....

You have to raise something pre flop. Make the chasers drop out, plus any one who would of stayed in and made 2 pair.

good laydown sure but you should have collected the pot with a raise preflop.

Agreed that I could have gotten the garbage out with a preflop raise. (In fact later on I DID raise with KK in the same position but didn't get any action.) The only thing is that there were 3 very aggressive players yet to act, including one who would raise and call with almost anything. I'd doubled through him earlier when I raised him all-in from the SB with 55 and he had A3 and called. I could have taken the pot with a raise but I was looking to take one of the aggressive players' stacks, not just win the pot.

That said...my reads were on target.

Caller in MP had 2 3 for bottom pair no kicker, a gutshot straight flush draw.

Problem for him was that MP+1 had A Q for the nut flush draw, just as I suspected.

And SB had 6 6 for top set.

turn was the 5

river was a blank and MP took the pot with the str8.

I like the fold. It's an unraised pot, the sorta flop that limping hands can hit nicely and you have a hand that won't improve easily.

-'rilla

Good fold. With that many playing and a weird, dangerous board, you have to let it go. I don't recommend trying to check-raise pocket pairs for this reason... even tables I'd characterize as aggressive might only have a pre-flop raise 50% of the time, which means if you try to check-raise on an orbit where no one raises, you're boned.

Well, if you figure the small blind already has you beaten, then you're drawing dead to a set or possibly a board pair. I think given the action, it's clear that you don't have the best hand and it's a pretty easy fold.

By the way, you live in Ashburn, VA? I live in Fairfax right now, but I'm originally from Hamilton, which is about 20 minutes from Ashburn.

Originally Posted by dsaxton

Well, if you figure the small blind already has you beaten, then you're drawing dead to a set or possibly a board pair.

That's not really drawing dead - at the very least he has two queens as outs, if he suspects a pair or low set is what's ahead of him now.