Hand check

[blah730235]

Blah...withdrew some cash back to 2$ NL

Main villan is 38/0/0.26 over 36 hands
The two others were passive postflop as well.

POKERSTARS GAME #18524064512: HOLD'EM NO LIMIT ($0.01/$0.02) - 2008/07/02 - 01:35:27 (ET)
Table 'Virtus V' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: poierwtqrw ($7.75 in chips)
Seat 2: soel jam ($1.98 in chips)
Seat 3: huzibuzi ($1.42 in chips)
Seat 4: vicmanstar ($1.46 in chips)
Seat 5: closedacct ($4.80 in chips)
Seat 6: winehouse ($3.24 in chips)
Seat 7: xiaye ($13.37 in chips)
Seat 8: Avelina ($3.37 in chips)
Seat 9: blah730235 ($2.09 in chips)
Avelina: posts small blind $0.01
blah730235: posts big blind $0.02
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to blah730235
poierwtqrw: calls $0.02
soel jam: calls $0.02
huzibuzi: folds
vicmanstar: calls $0.02
closedacct: folds
winehouse: folds
xiaye: folds
Avelina: calls $0.01
blah730235: raises $0.10 to $0.12
poierwtqrw: calls $0.10
soel jam: calls $0.10
vicmanstar: calls $0.10
Avelina: folds
*** FLOP ***
Avelina leaves the table
blah730235: checks
poierwtqrw: checks
koba777 joins the table at seat #8
soel jam: checks
vicmanstar: checks
*** TURN ***
blah730235: bets $0.25
poierwtqrw: folds
soel jam: folds
vicmanstar: raises $0.25 to $0.50
blah730235: folds


Preflop is pretty standard.

Flop play was check and hope for a free card. My impression of villans lead me to think that if I c-bet I would be called down by a pair by at least one of them way to often. Since none of them bet I do not think anyone has a set here.

Turn...
I decided to put out a a 1/2 pot sized bet figuring that the villans being so loose-passive they would tell me their hand: they would call with a pair/FD/gutshot & raise with a made hand. Now villan has min-raised but I have great odds for a call and since he is min-betting here I imagine there's a good chance of a cheap river bet to.

Thoughts?

[jaydreb]

I probably play it the same way, although I might bet a little bit closer to 2/3 or 3/4 pot on the turn.

C-betting that flop into 3 loose opponents would be suicide.

[emmapeel]

The lower the buy-in the better your win rate. However, I think the game is much more difficult to play the lower down you go as you meet a wider variety of players that are hard to categorise.

Here I think I would be re-raising more pre-flop. The usual method is 3BB + 1 per limper which makes 6 but here Hero is out of position and so I would re-raise bigger. It also might be a table where people won't fold so often and it makes things easier to get it down to one or two opponents.

I like the check on the flop in this case as there are 3 opponents and at least one of them looks the kind that might call weakly.

I like the bet on the turn if the intention was to fold to a re-raise. This might be the best play. I would find it hard to fold to a mini-raise though and might decide to call just to see what happens on the river.

EP