KK on the Button early STT, thoughts?

[jdubs]

No-limit Texas Hold'em $5+$1 (real money), hand #899,336,428
St Louis Single Table Tournament, 13 May 2005 07:56 AM





Seat 1: biggie4pres ($4,235 in chips)
Seat 2: kingshot ($1,410 in chips)
Seat 4: kj77546 ($1,540 in chips)
Seat 5: Jane80 ($2,245 in chips)
Seat 6: joeb7 ($1,740 in chips)
Seat 8: BIGGUY321 ($875 in chips)
Seat 9: LooseRRR ($1,530 in chips)
Seat 10: jdubster [KD,KH] ($1,425 in chips)



ANTES/BLINDS
biggie4pres posts blind ($15), kingshot posts blind ($30).

PRE-FLOP
kj77546 folds, Jane80 folds, joeb7 folds, BIGGUY321 folds, LooseRRR folds, jdubster bets $60, biggie4pres calls $45, kingshot bets $1,380 and is all-in, jdubster calls $1,350, biggie4pres folds.

FLOP [board cards 2S,JS,6C ]


TURN [board cards 2S,JS,6C,4D ]


RIVER [board cards 2S,JS,6C,4D,KS ]


SHOWDOWN
kingshot shows [ QD,AD ]
jdubster shows [ KD,KH ]
jdubster wins $2,880.



SUMMARY
Dealer: jdubster
Pot: $2,880
biggie4pres, loses $60
kingshot, loses $1,410
kj77546, loses $0
Jane80, loses $0
joeb7, loses $0
BIGGUY321, loses $0
LooseRRR, loses $0
jdubster, bets $1,410, collects $2,880, net $1,470



I only min raised looking for action, since so many folds, looking for a raise utimately, and got it here. I was thinking of simply limping at this point, but min raised instead... it was a lil too early for me to get a read on kingster....I figured after the raise AK maybe, or JJ ...is this a decent play?

[AHiltz]

I would have played it the same.

[drmcboy]

I tend to raise more early, but definetely you're risking picking up just the blinds, so I can see the play here. If you're going to play it weak, tho, you have to be willing to give it up to an A on the flop or sooted/str8 flops you don't have any of. On the upside, you don't have much invested so it shouldn't be hard to get away. Here even a worst case flop if it's checekd to you you can even make a continue bet on the flop and still get away with a reasonable stack if someone comes at you after a bad flop.

Last time I limped a big pair in this spot I got my AA cracked by Q2 making two pair, and I went right back to never slow playing except maybe smooth calling a raise from the BB when the pot will be heads up or other unique spots.

[homerdash]

I get the feeling that kingster thought you were on a halfassed steal attempt and decided to resteal with a decent holding. I don't like the minraise that much though. It worked out well that time, but if you just end up getting 2 calls, the callers have gotten into the hand too cheaply. You just happened to run into one of those doubleluck hands which are the most profitable: opponent has second best hand and is going to pay you off in full.

Besides drmcboy's smooth call from the BB, the only slowplay I like preflop is limping from UTG or UTG+1, and reraising whoever raises. If no one ends up raising then my read of the table was off target.

[TLR]

I would have to say good move.
Idealy you would want one caller vs your cowboys.
The min raise is a probably the safest bet on having the SB fold and the BB calling.
You got lucky that he reraised you