4-20 spread limit holdem hand.

[Heywood]

Well since its spread limit I would bet the limit and see who hangs around.

Typically when I bet, it is for one of following reasons.
1. For Value.....I think I have the best hand, I want worse hands to pay me off.
2. For Bluff.......I want better hands to fold.
3. To increase my equity by causing others with equity to fold.

With K and Q on the board. A bet here is not for value. With two limpers left who I peg as players who make lots of calling mistakes, I doubt they fold better hands. Most of the equity given up by players who fold to a bet isn't going to me.

I checked because I just didn't see how a bet would accomplish anything. The button bets, and the two limpers fold. Its heads up and I am out of position.

My options.
1. fold
2. call
3. check raise

Which is the best option?

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Raise to 20 preflop, obv. With three limpers ahead of you 16 is just gross. You may as well have limped yourself.

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Frankly, once the hand went 5 way, your jacks became about as valuable as deuces. If I can't isolate with a hand like that, I turn to set mining and occasionally running bluffs. I might just check it down here, which is admittedly meh, but this really isn't the greatest spot.

I don't expect a bet to take it down here very often, but I might throw out 20 and see what happens. Reevaluate the turn. When you get called, at least you know you're probably behind. :p

I don't mind catching a jack on the turn (if I bet here). Depends on how many donks you have in the game that would peel for a gutterball for $20. The pot odds aren't there and the implied odds aren't either.

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Don't they spread pot or no limit in your neck of the woods, Heywood? Limit poker just sucks so hard.

This was really a 2-10 spread limit game with a kill....and this was a kill pot(I called it 4-20 because I didn't want to explain what a kill is). The players seemed a little more timid in kill pots, I had been betting 16 with hands like KJ against limpers and everyone folds which is a coup in my opinion. I figure I bet 16 here with premium hands and mediocre hands to make it harder to read me. I figure 16 gets the job done, by either folding everyone out, or going to the flop heads up with position with one of the limpers. The limpers all have less than 100 in front of them so take the bulk of their stacks when this hand goes to show down and I win. I was surprised that this pot went this multiway.

I do agree that raising the max preflop in this game is often the best play. The money in this game is made preflop and on the flop. Because of the structure, its harder to get people to make mistakes on the turn and river. The pot is just too large compared to bet sizes. In a non kill pot, I raise to the max preflop. I three bet to the max pre-flop, but fold to a three bet as my default.

I think the local Indian casino spreads 5-500 sometimes.....which I need to get into that game.