(Wait, two limpers? I thought you said there were three?)
I don't know, Heywood, what's your read on the button? What's his read on you? What's his range here? Is he going to call you preflop to outplay you after the flop? Is he ever going to 3 bet back at you with air? Is he gonna lay down a better hand?
Without a read, I'm going to assume he's playing ABC, hit to flop, and I'm folding.
If I him seeing calling your raise to outplay you preflop, then maybe a checkraise is worth a try, but the way you played it, I'm going to fold here a lot of the time, and the only reason I'm ever check calling here is to set up meta for when I have the nuts I want to slow play (and I don't slow play out of the cutoff as a general rule - so let's just say, I'm never calling here). If you're going to check call a marginal made hand, then you probably ought to just bet out in limit. What's your plan if you call? Check call the next two streets?
(In fact, I'm pretty much only check raising with this hand here for meta too).
Frankly, I think this is one of those spots I dislike intensely, and pretty much the number one reason why I want to muck jacks preflop (though, duh, I don't) - although admittedly, a large part of why I hate this position is because of how you played the hand preflop with that weaksauce raise.
Once the limpers fold, you're heads up, out of position, with a meh hand on a wet board. Just fold. This isn't one of those questionable spots.
I don't know, Heywood, what's your read on the button? What's his read on you? What's his range here? Is he going to call you preflop to outplay you after the flop? Is he ever going to 3 bet back at you with air? Is he gonna lay down a better hand?
Without a read, I'm going to assume he's playing ABC, hit to flop, and I'm folding.
If I him seeing calling your raise to outplay you preflop, then maybe a checkraise is worth a try, but the way you played it, I'm going to fold here a lot of the time, and the only reason I'm ever check calling here is to set up meta for when I have the nuts I want to slow play (and I don't slow play out of the cutoff as a general rule - so let's just say, I'm never calling here). If you're going to check call a marginal made hand, then you probably ought to just bet out in limit. What's your plan if you call? Check call the next two streets?
(In fact, I'm pretty much only check raising with this hand here for meta too).
Frankly, I think this is one of those spots I dislike intensely, and pretty much the number one reason why I want to muck jacks preflop (though, duh, I don't) - although admittedly, a large part of why I hate this position is because of how you played the hand preflop with that weaksauce raise.
Once the limpers fold, you're heads up, out of position, with a meh hand on a wet board. Just fold. This isn't one of those questionable spots.
