Two pair with not good turn.
2/3 NL First hand of new game so no reads on the button other than he is a late 20's white guy who bought in for the max 500. I bought in for 300.
4 limps and I check JsTh in the BB.
($15 in the pot). Tc6cJd...I bet 9 and only the button calls.
($ 33 in the pot). Tc6cJd8c...How should I proceed?
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2/3 NL First hand of new game so no reads on the button other than he is a late 20's white guy who bought in for the max 500. I bought in for 300.
4 limps and I check JsTh in the BB.
($15 in the pot). Tc6cJd...I bet 9 and only the button calls.
($ 33 in the pot). Tc6cJd8c...How should I proceed?
The turn is a gross card, since it just completed the flush as well as some straights. With so little in the pot, I'm check-calling a reasonable bet and seeing what the river brings. If he pots it on the turn, I'm folding.
The first way you should proceed is by writing the board like J♦ T♣ 6♣ instead of 6cJdTc.
Turn is a bad card, check and see what develops.
I like $15 and fold to a raise on this card. Check/calling <$20, check folding >$20 is probably fine too.
His flop calling range will be mainly Jx, 10x, and draws, hard to know how many trash hands he’s over limping on the button that got there since we haven’t played with him. If he’s going to have shit like Q3s, Q9o, 97o, etc. then we have to proceed with caution as he’ll be weighted towards completed draws on turn.
Seems like an ok spot to raise pre with JTo in the BB.
Think I'm betting full pot on the flop, with top 2 on a fairly wet and dynamic board.
Think I'm barreling turn for 1/2 pot, to see if V wants to raise with his made hands.
I think there are a couple of options. The more I think about it, the more I like going 2/3 turn and 2/3 river /fold to raise as there are some hands we can still get value from, maybe a stubborn AJ, worse two pair. Jc, Qc, Kc, Ac are all out there, and in a limped pot there are plenty of offsuit hands that are a pair + fd that btn can have.
Check river if a 4th club comes out or maybe get fancy and block bet like 10%. On a 4 liner river either check or block bet.
We would likely check call something like b75 turn, b75 river. Occasionally we will check call smaller bets when villain has a worse hand. Turn will get a small bet and river will check through a fair amount too. And a surprising amount of flushes will probably just call both turn and river.
I don't think check call or checking turn to value bet a lot of rivers is terrible though.