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[RoamingMadness]

I posted a question, and the great one responds. You can play along at home too... ill give you my questions, then check out what ed said.

Sitting longhanded in an online room. I’m wondering if i played the hand correctly, or if i should have done something differently?
.25/.50 limit, the game is somewhat tight, with around 3-4 seeing each flop.

Small posted the small blind - $0.12
Big posted the big blind - $0.25

** Dealing card to HERO: K :club: , A
Early called - $0.25
Hero raised - $0.50
4 folds
Other called - $0.50
Small called - $0.50
Big called - $0.50
Early raised - $0.75
All call

** Dealing the flop: K , 4 , 3 :club:
Small checked
Big bet - $0.25
Early raised - $0.50
Hero called - $0.50
Other folded
Small called - $0.50
Big called - $0.50

** Dealing the turn: A :spade:
Small bet - $0.50
Big raised - $1.00
Early called - $1.00
Roaming raised - $1.50
Small called - $1.50
Big called - $1.50
Early called - $1.50

** Dealing the river: 8 :club:
Small checked
Big checked
Early checked
Hero bet - $0.50
Small called - $0.50
Big called - $0.50
Early folded
Hero shows: K :club: , A
Small mucks:
Big mucks:
Hero wins $12.95 from the main pot

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One more question, because this type of situation comes up a lot for me.

Sitting longhanded in an online room

.25/.50 limit, the game is somewhat tight, with around 3-4 seeing each flop.

** Dealing card to Hero: Q :spade: , A :club:
2 folds
Hero raised - $0.50
1 fold
Other called - $0.50 (posted to play)
2 folds
Small called - $0.50
BB folds

** Dealing the flop: J , 5 :diamond: , 3 :diamond:
Small checked
Hero bet - $0.25
Other raised - $0.50
Small folded
Hero called - $0.50

** Dealing the turn: 6 :club:
Hero checked
Other bet - $0.50
Hero folded

This happens quite often. My first question is if my flop bet was correct. And i feel like it was. No one has shown aggression. And i think its possible to pick up the pot right here for the smallest investment, so i bet.

When raised though, now i am at an utter loss. Betting and folding seems wrong on the flop round, because i feel i would have been called and raised on the turn if my foe had a monster. So i called, putting him on J/x or a flush draw, looking for a cheap river. The turn card missed completely. I checked and he bet. I feel confident now he has a jack. But am i getting outplayed by a flush draw?

Similar things come up often. Just wondering what your view is on it.
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[Shaz]

Case 1, I think you played as well as it could be. You had a dominating hand throughout unless someone holding a lower pair that made a set. It didn't seem that anyone else was really going at it aggressively, and you raised every time, so I think you were fine there.

In Case 2, it really depends on the play style of that player. Online play is kind of shitty that way in that you get people who will bet and play hands that they have no place playing. You might have been facing a flush draw, but my gut says he had a lower pair and not the jack. Seems to me that someone called a $0.50 pre-flop with J,* and then only bet $0.25 when they flopped top pair missed the boat. My feel from that betting (assuming that you weren't being bluffed or simply playing a random player)was that he was likely holding a mid pair ... likely 7,8, or 9. That would explain his moderate raise pre-flop and also his less-than-max raise after the flop. Again, I am assuming fairly tight play ... then I think when you checked he felt sure you didn't have the over pair and went for the pot with a big raise.

Those are my thoughts anyway.

[RoamingMadness]

This is limit poker =)

I want some of what you're smoking. Haha.

[Shaz]

This is limit poker =)

Where did I reference something that would not occur in limit poker?

Honestly, I never play limit, and anything I've watched is no-limit, so my understanding of the whole limit issue is pretty vague at best.

[RoamingMadness]

That would explain his moderate raise pre-flop and also his less-than-max raise after the flop. Again, I am assuming fairly tight play ... then I think when you checked he felt sure you didn't have the over pair and went for the pot with a big raise.

See, talking about raise sizes. Limit is set amounts.

[Shaz]

Yeah, I realize that ... what I was referring to was that all throughout that hand he hadn't bet/raised more than $0.25. Then when you checked the turn, he came in with $0.50 to push you off the pot which was a "big raise" considering his previous betting pattern.

Admittedly, I only have that one game's worth of "pattern" to go off of, but it sure looked to me as if he was playing a middle pair. If he had the jack, I would have expected to see a $0.50 raise on the flop instead of the $0.25 he raised. Then when you checked the turn, he knew the jack was clear and went for the kill so to speak by raising the max.

I think that your flop bet was fine ... with 2 overs and a flush or straight draw possibility on the board, you want to push it a little. I also think you got out of the hand at the right time.