Quote Originally Posted by tuuk2
Preflop, I'm in the SB but with a min-raise and a call, I thought I might be able to at least get one player out with my raise. I thought wrong obviously and with two callers, I start to worry about pocket pairs higher than mine. Mostly JJ or QQ since I think most people would re-raise with KK or AA, although that's not a given.
You don't have to raise here (though I probably do), but if you do it needs to be a bigger raise, .50 or so. You'll still get called often by broadways, pp's, and other crap that should fold.
Quote Originally Posted by tuuk2
So the flop comes and since I've out of position, I want to bet the pot to try to take this down. I know I'm probably getting called by anyone with a flush draw or top pair here, most likely. I wasn't expecting both to call here though.
You do want to bet here, but rather than hoping to take it down (that's not a bad outcome), I'm doing it to be called by 9x, flush draws, and anything else bad players call with. Good bet.
Quote Originally Posted by tuuk2
Because I got two callers (essentially one now because the other's all-in) I start to shut it down. I'm OOP and there's a good possibility I'm behind here. When the UTG bets $1, I have to call because of pot odds. If the other player still had some chips, I might have had to fold this hand most reluctantly. What does anyone else think about that?
You got called, but don't have a lot of reason to think you must be beat as lots of worse hands called your flop bet, and this card helped almost none of those (A4, 55 are about it). Checking here isn't terrible if he's the kind to jump all over weakness, but betting for value here against pairs and flush draws is best, at lease $2 or so should be good, maybe more.[/quote]
Quote Originally Posted by tuuk2
On the river, again I check to control the size of the pot. I want to see what his move is. If he pushes all-in though, I'm in a very difficult spot. If he was on a flush draw however, he probably checks like he did.
If you had fired the turn, I'd bet again on this river. As played I'm not really sure.

You can probably treat overpairs like the nuts against most opponents who are only calling. If he has an overpair, note how passively he plays this type of hand. If you get raised, then you need to start considering more if you might be behind.