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[ed cooper]

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 6.5 Tournament, 25/50 Blinds (9 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

UTG+1 (t1620)
MP1 (t1645)
MP2 (t1435)
MP3 (t1710)
Hero (CO) (t1445)
Button (t1900)
SB (t900)
BB (t1380)
UTG (t1465)

Hero's M: 19.27

Preflop: Hero is CO with ,
UTG calls t50, 1 fold, MP1 calls t50, MP2 calls t50, 1 fold, Hero calls t50, Button calls t50, SB calls t25, BB checks

Flop: (t350) , , (7 players)
SB checks, BB checks, UTG checks, MP1 checks, MP2 bets t100, Hero raises to t350

i took the hand down here. 2 questions: do we ever 'take advantage' of our position here and just call, or is the board too dangerous in this instance? secondly, is the bet sizing ok?

- cheers, ed

[Zorkion]

Given the situation, ie. six callers to the flop, i think your flop rr was fine. i dont know how PS 6.5 games play, but with that many callers, theres enough danger of someone having a FD, or maybe even a j9/97/67. If its anything like FT 2.25 sngs though, those are exactly the sorts of hands people love to limp with into multi-way pots.

if anything, id say you should have raiesd preflop maybe, to try to thin out the competition a little, and maybe even make any callers more committed to the pot, if you hit your set, but I could be results biased. given the board, im almost surprised nobody was on OESD/FD/OESFD

i think a better question is how you would have played the hand, if you had gotten any callers. you already had 2/7 your stack in on a good hand, but there are plenty of hands that could have easily improved

but anyways, im still pretty new here, so i could be a little off.

cheers!

[taipan168]

You played it fine, nh. I think the raise was definitely the right thing to do and the sizing was good too. Unfortunately you're not going to get paid every time you hit a set.

I definitely wouldn't raise preflop; even calling is a little marginal because of the three players still to act, but it's OK I suppose.