good laydown ?

[BrokeSucca]

** Game ID 499420412 starting - 2005-09-15 08:28:56
** Alder Smoot [Hold 'em] (0.05|0.10 No Limit - Cash Game) Real Money
- Ballongknut sitting in seat 1 with $9.55
- red111403 sitting in seat 2 with $7.05 [Dealer]
- widengren sitting in seat 4 with $10.55
- nameexists sitting in seat 5 with $13.47
- Erictheman sitting in seat 6 with $10.15
- merendas sitting in seat 7 with $7.75
- mashne sitting in seat 8 with $14.76
- 19850222 sitting in seat 9 with $16.46

widengren posted the small blind - $0.05
nameexists posted the big blind - $0.10

** Dealing card to red111403: 5 of Spades, 5 of Diamonds
Erictheman called - $0.10
merendas folded
mashne folded
19850222 folded
Ballongknut folded
red111403 called - $0.10
widengren called - $0.10
nameexists checked

** Dealing the flop: 7 of Clubs, 8 of Spades, 8 of Clubs
widengren checked
nameexists checked
Erictheman checked
red111403 checked

** Dealing the turn: 8 of Hearts
widengren checked
nameexists checked
Erictheman checked
red111403 checked

** Dealing the river: King of Diamonds
widengren checked
nameexists checked
Erictheman bet - $3.10
red111403 folded
widengren folded
nameexists folded
Erictheman mucks: 10 of Clubs, 8 of Diamonds
Erictheman wins $3.50 from the main pot

End of game 499420412

[PokerPatNEU]

Nope you should have called

[BrokeSucca]

I wasn't looking for praize. I was seriously wonder if I should call there.

[PokerPatNEU]

Lol i'm sorry i guess i'm just in a bad mood, ugly weather and all that. No i wouldn't have called there, with 4 people in the pot someone has a K, 7, a mid-PP, or possibly the other 8. This hand is super passive so you can't really put anyone on anything. There could be suited connectors in there which ahve 7's or an 8 in them, Kx, someone limping 6's or 9's or T's... You have no way of knowing that you're 5's are good here as it was just checked down. Don't forget why we limp small pairs, to make sets .

[BrokeSucca]

Thanks for keeping me on track man.

[thirteen]

Is there anything wrong with taking a stab at the pot on the turn? With the hand getting checked around, I think i may have made a move on the turn in last position to take down the pot.

Is this a bad idea? I'd toss the hand if i got reraised, and likely fold on the river if a king or ace shows up and i get bet into.

[PokerPatNEU]

By the turn there isn't a lot in the pot to take a stab for. It would probably take a pretty hefty bet (pot sized) to even scare out over cards or A high on a trippled up board. And if you get called, you have to worry about getting slowplayed. I think its best to just let this hand go, if you were holding 99 or TT, i'd say take a stab at the flop. Underpairs to paired boards with 4 to the flop are rarely gonna take down the pot in my experience.