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A straddle is on for $16 in a 1/3 game, i am first to act and call with 6h6d. We end up going five ways to a flop of 7h6sQd. Straddler leads for 25, i call everyone else folds. Turn 10s, straddler leads again for 70, i call. River is another Q, pairing the board giving me sixes full. Straddler puts me all in ~200. I snap it off roll over 66 and he rolls over Q10 for a higher boat. Is there a different way i should’ve played this hand? Just a garbage turn river.
This is a major cooler. In a bigger game I’d have raised or folded preflop but in 1/3 limping is probably fine. Nothing you can really do once the flop comes out. You just got really unlucky. No way I’m ever folding on any street. I might raise the turn just so that if an 8, 9, or spade comes out it doesn’t kill my action.
Why do you consider limping in a bigger game not fine? Because the chance of someone raising behind you would force you to fold 66?
I’d think the only purpose of playing pocket 6s is to setmine and win a big pot 1/8 of the time and let it go when not setting and facing any action on the flop (with usually 2 or 3 overcards). So shouldn’t be our goal to see a flop as cheaply as possible?just a cooler with a guy looking to gamble. a straddle in a 1/3 game to $16? where i play they only allow it a max of 15 and they have a ROCK or forced straddle to 10. Hard to fold on any street. But like Brad said might have raised PF.
It’s hands like this that led me to stop limping into pots with small pairs. 🙂
As played though….After the villain’s flop bet, I would have put in a raise, probably to $100. I wouldn’t want to give the players behind me a good price to chase any draws. A bit of a moot point as they all folded anyway, but wanted to share my thought process. It’s doubtful you would have seen the straddler fold, and he wasn’t going anywhere on the turn. He got lucky and hit his “8 percenter” on the river.
Hopefully your next buy in went much better.
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