Is this badly played?

[Rage2100]

BB was 38.24/5.88/0.56 over 34 hands. He had come to the table with $1, had a couple of lucky double ups after hitting his miracle cards on the river, lost nearly all of it, and then had a couple of lucky double ups again.

Is there a better way to play this hand as it felt quite weak the way I played it? If the table was 6-handed I would usually dump A6 from this position.

Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10)

UTG: ($16.87)
Hero: ($19.13)
SB: ($18.55)
BB: ($4.05)

Preflop: Hero is Button with 6 , A .
UTG calls $0.10, Hero calls $0.10, SB calls $0.05, BB checks

Flop: ($0.40) 6 , 4 , 5 (4 players)
SB checks, BB bets $0.48, 1 fold, Hero calls $0.48, 1 fold

Turn: ($1.36) A (2 players)
BB bets $3.47 (All-In), Hero calls $3.47

[Deanglow]

Raise pre or fold. Raise the flop. Call turn now

[meeloche]

Preflop is bad, it's a raise or fold for me. On the flop we have tptk and the nfd, this is such a strong hand we should be raising to build the pot so we can go all in. As played turn is a call i guess but i'd much rather just get it in on the flop.

[will641]

def raise pf, and def raise/call the frop. so yeah what they said.

[Fnord]

Pre-flop is fine.
What does his flop bet mean?
I think this hand is fine.

[holdin2]

What does his flop bet mean?

We caught BB special 2pr/set/straight and want to make a heart pay?

[Fnord]

What does his flop bet mean?

We caught BB special 2pr/set/straight and want to make a heart pay?

Pretend your Ace is a spade and fold then.

[Galapogos]

I would raise pre or fold, like everyone else said. As played though I really don't like raising the flop as this is a limped pot. The nut flush draw+pair is great but it's a mono-tone board with tons of 2 pair possibilities and such. If you raise and get it in on this flop you are going to be behind like every time. If the pot were raised I'd like getting it in on the flop of course.

And you definitely want to get it in on the turn now.

[Deanglow]

Pre-flop is fine.
What does his flop bet mean?
I think this hand is fine.

I think the live games are getting to you.

[Fnord]

I will over-limp worse and over-limping crap on the button has always shown a small profit for me.

[dalecooper]

I would tend to put in a 3x or so raise with this hand but limping is fine too, and better than folding. Calling with ace anything on the button against three weaktards is fine. You can call there with a lot of hands.

[holdin2]

What does his flop bet mean?

We caught BB special 2pr/set/straight and want to make a heart pay?

Pretend your Ace is a spade and fold then.

I'm not sure if you're poking fun at my response or not. I just threw my best guess out there to spur things on. My logic was that with the tiny limped pot and monotone/straight board if BB caught something nice like that, it's what they might do. Lots of draws might call. Maybe he'd C/R but with no PF aggressor...
Seems like a bad spot to try to just steal a pot. Maybe a pair+heart or 3/7+heart?

[Marshall28]

i dont really think overlimping here is such a bad play. i def think its better than raising because of the fact that people dont really fold and ud probly just be building a pot w/ a very marginal hand, possibly even a losing one. for that reason i would probably just fold preflop, though players cant let go of anything so if u make something strong on the flop i wouldnt mind just going with it like u did. i thinkt he hand is played fine as long as u dont let yourself get into trouble when u get worse flops than this one that somewhat improve your hand.

[Rage2100]

Thanks for the replies everyone.

I don't generally limp hands like these as a rule, but I do occasionally. The reason I didn't raise the flop was because BB seemed to like an all-in with any piece of the board. I thought I may as well call his bet and see if I could hit something. I can see the reasons for building a big pot, but at $10 NL there sometimes doesn't seem to be any point as the other players build it for you with a worse hand.

I am trying a few different things out at the moment to see what works best for me.

[Fnord]

It's a small pot and we're limping here to give ourselves room to make GOOD DECISIONS.

On the flop you have the obvious nut draw and a shit pair in a nothing pot facing a donk who probably just bet you off your hand if he's got you beat. Follow through with the good decision.

If he does this shit with a lot of crap, play a big pot with him.
If he does this shit only when he has a hand, fold knowing that sometimes you're making a small mistake to avoid a pretty big one.

That's why I like the limp, it challenges you to make good decisions with position and a lot of money behind.

[nutsinho]

yeah autostacking on this flop vs this bet is like terrible beyond words