Giving up on an average overpair - weak play?
No reads on this guy - he had recently joined the table. Later monitoring of his play, I gathered that he was pretty tight-passive preflop, and loose-passive postflop.
I called the minraise on the flop in the event that the turn may give me a backdoor flush draw, and to see how he behaved on the turn. He did not seem worried about being beat or outdrawn, so he half-pots it to keep me around. The board is very non-threatening, and I highly doubt 88 reraises the flop, so I'm not terribly worried about that hand. Of the lower pairs there are quite a few that I beat, but most people at this level tend to check-call on the flop and check-fold the turn unless they hit (to see whether or not you continue to be aggressive since so many slow down with their unimproved overs on the turn if they are called on the flop). They also tend to lead another turn under somewhat weakly ($2-4 in this case I would expect) since they are still not sure that you are not calling with a better pair.
Anything screwy about my play here? Calling the minraise on the flop is weak - is a reraise there and dump to further action a better line? If so, what is an appropriate raise? I'm assuming $6-8 ish.
My read by the turn is that this guy limped a big hand, probably rockets, with the intent to follow the ole limp-reraise pattern...but then just smooth-called my preflop raise when there were no other callers.
Paradise No-Limit Hold'em, $0.25 BB (10 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx
UTG($25.50)
UTG+1 ($35.65)
MP1 ($14.25)
MP2 ($19.20)
MP3 ($32.35)
CO ($26.45)
xTheHorrorx ($23.25)
SB ($21.95)
BB ($29.85)
Preflop: xTheHorrorx is Button with :Th: :Tc:.
UTG calls $0.25, 5 folds, xTheHorrorx raises to $1.00, 2 folds, UTG calls $0.75.
Flop: ($2.35) :8h: :2h: :2d: (2 players)
UTG checks, xTheHorrorx bets $2, UTG raises to $4, xTheHorrorx calls $2.
Turn: ($10.35) :4c: (2 players)
UTG bets $5.75, ...
Results in white below:
xTheHorrorx thinks to the time limit, and folds.
UTG shows Ac, As.
Final Pot: $16.10
