Quote Originally Posted by d0zer
Quote Originally Posted by spoonitnow
I prefer to raise preflop here, but everything post-flop seems fine. You have to value bet the flop and turn since your hand is very under-represented, and I like the river check/call since we're not *extremely* strong.
Yeah I figured the river was a WA/WB situation so a check/call was in order.

You'd pre-flop raise jacks from SB with limpers behind?

If I was on the button, I'd agree...I just feel like too many times have I raised pre-flop with limpers behind only to get in a multi-way out of position with overcards on the flop and I've gotta lay it down.

I generally play JJ TT like a low PP, but if the board comes low, I'll bet it like this.

Leak in my game?

As it turns out, the villain here was calling me down with Q4o (wtf?) I didn't think people did shit like that in 100NL. I just moved up from 25/50NL so I'm a little insecure with my game at this level...
Like daven said, I also raise to isolate. A raise makes it much less likely to be out of position against multiple players with the added bonus that you'll just pick up the pot here a good portion of the time as well. With TT/99 it depends on the players who limped and the BB, but for JJ it's almost always a raise for me. However, I don't think a limp is an absolutely overly huge mistake or anything, I just think a raise to $6 or $7 is a bit better.

And yeah, sometimes players do really weird stuff at 100nl. I see it a lot in limped pots especially.

This hand made me think about how lately I've been re-evaluating how I play top pair or weak overpairs on limped boards from the blinds. You're almost always out of position against multiple opponents and the pot is fairly small, so I found myself not betting a lot of times when it was likely I had the best hand just so I wouldn't have to deal with the situation. I'm starting to think that it's possible that I was just avoiding a situation I wasn't comfortable with instead of trying to make the best plays.