Change of pace play

I rarely raise a mid suited connector and especially out of position. The table was fairly tight and I thought I might steal a few pennies here. Worked out this time....

Thoughts on anything else I could have done?

Sorry, couldn't get hand converter to work this time

Texas Hold'em $0.25-$0.50 NL (real money), hand #157,135,394
Table Den Haag, 21 Feb 2006 11:16 PM ET

Seat 1: pfb8888 ($28.00 in chips)
Seat 2: ihrtmmoore ($26.55 in chips)
Seat 3: GaHurricane ($25.20 in chips)
Seat 4: clkaufma ($49.50 in chips)
Seat 5: cardsman1992 [ 8D,9D ] ($29.35 in chips)
Seat 6: Stone420 ($10.35 in chips)
Seat 7: T0NY71ny ($8.65 in chips)
Seat 8: caesardog ($23.70 in chips)
Seat 9: buhabs ($4.20 in chips)
Seat 10: mikenice0 ($20.80 in chips)
ANTES/BLINDS
buhabs posts blind ($0.15), mikenice0 posts blind ($0.25).

PRE-FLOP
pfb8888 folds, ihrtmmoore folds, GaHurricane folds, clkaufma folds, cardsman1992 bets $1.50, Stone420 folds, T0NY71ny calls $1.50, caesardog folds, buhabs calls $1.35, mikenice0 folds.

FLOP [board cards 7H,10S,JC ]
buhabs checks, cardsman1992 bets $2, T0NY71ny calls $2, buhabs folds.

TURN [board cards 7H,10S,JC,QS ]
cardsman1992 bets $5, T0NY71ny bets $5.15 and is all-in, cardsman1992 calls $0.15.

RIVER [board cards 7H,10S,JC,QS,4S ]

SHOWDOWN
T0NY71ny shows [ KC,QC ]
cardsman1992 shows [ 8D,9D ]
cardsman1992 wins $18.55.

SUMMARY
Dealer: caesardog
Pot: $19.05 | Rake: $0.50
pfb8888 loses $0
ihrtmmoore loses $0
GaHurricane loses $0
clkaufma loses $0
cardsman1992 bets $8.65, collects $18.55, net $9.90
Stone420 loses $0
T0NY71ny loses $8.65
caesardog loses $0
buhabs loses $1.50
mikenice0 loses $0.25

Originally Posted by cardsman1992

Thoughts on anything else I could have done?

Are 6x openers common? I usually just fold to them, but I'm thinking I'm missing out by not re-raising them more often....

Originally Posted by Fnord

Are 6x openers common? I usally just fold to them, but I'm thinking I'm missing out by not re-raising them more often....

Me too. I usually assume it's a guy with JJ-99 and he's scared of playing postflop if an overcard hits. In a tourney I sometimes even fold AK to them, because I'd be getting the worst of the coin flip, and if I lose, I'm out.

However, lately I've been seeing a decent number of people make huge openers with such terrible hands that I'm thinking the same as you, Fnord. Have you seen any people like this in your ring games?

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t20 (9 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx

Button (t1500)
Hero (t1500)
BB (t1500)
UTG (t1500)
UTG+1 (t1500)
MP1 (t1500)
MP2 (t1500)
MP3 (t1500)
CO (t1500)

Preflop: Hero is SB with T, J.
UTG raises to t420, UTG+1 raises to t1500, 7 folds, UTG calls t1080 (All-In).

Flop: (t3030) 6, A, 4 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Turn: (t3030) 8 (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: (t3030) J (2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: t3030

UTG: shows [Q 6] (a pair of Sixes)
UTG+1: shows [A A] (three of a kind, Aces)

Originally Posted by Fnord

Originally Posted by cardsman1992

Thoughts on anything else I could have done?

Are 6x openers common? I usually just fold to them, but I'm thinking I'm missing out by not re-raising them more often....

Standard raise at the table was at least 4x if you had cards at all.. I had made several raises of 4-6x bb with huge cards and had gotten callers. There were generally a lot of limpers so you had to make that kind of raise to weed out the trash. I was basically trying to rep strength and was done if someone came over the top of me. As I said, I was just trying to buy a little pot. This is NOT a play I normally make.

Another standard play was people with short stacks going all in preflop trying to double up.....

I had just shown down a big hand and won a decent pot, too....

That being said, your points are well taken. I did put myself in a dangerous spot. Likely would be bleeding chips if I did it on a consistent basis.

Your hand has implied odds, and is a good raise at a tight table where if you hit, you'll possibly drain TP. Also, you have fold equity postflop leading out into non threatening boards. I wouldn't raise this hand from EP regularly, but as a change of pace play I love it. You coined it correctly, since that's exactly what it is. This is the kind of mixing up that increases your implied odds for all holdings in future hands.

What a lot of people don't consider is how your choices stimulate (or don't stimulate) future action. It's an important concept in NL. GG

Originally Posted by Rondavu

Your hand has implied odds, and is a good raise at a tight table where if you hit, you'll possibly drain TP. Also, you have fold equity postflop leading out into non threatening boards. I wouldn't raise this hand from EP regularly, but as a change of pace play I love it. You coined it correctly, since that's exactly what it is. This is the kind of mixing up that increases your implied odds for all holdings in future hands.

What a lot of people don't consider is how your choices stimulate (or don't stimulate) future action. It's an important concept in NL. GG

out of interest if you raise thsi and c-bet and take down the pot how often, if ever do you show these hands?

Originally Posted by Miffed22001

Originally Posted by Rondavu

Your hand has implied odds, and is a good raise at a tight table where if you hit, you'll possibly drain TP. Also, you have fold equity postflop leading out into non threatening boards. I wouldn't raise this hand from EP regularly, but as a change of pace play I love it. You coined it correctly, since that's exactly what it is. This is the kind of mixing up that increases your implied odds for all holdings in future hands.

What a lot of people don't consider is how your choices stimulate (or don't stimulate) future action. It's an important concept in NL. GG

out of interest if you raise thsi and c-bet and take down the pot how often, if ever do you show these hands?

Miffed, if you are asking me, I almost NEVER show a hand. I would only show a hand that I stole on a pure bluff when I would get absolutely NO action on my big hands. Usually getting action at 25 NL is not much problem. Eventually if you use the raise, c-bet, take down line often enough, someone looks you up without you having to show cards beforehand. Fortunately for me, this one got shown down and I got action on a few more big hands before I had to leave the table.

i was talking to anyone who would answer, esp rondavu but thats a start.