I need opinions
I ran into Jim and Tommy last night at Choctaw and you guys asked me to stop by the forum more often, so here I am. This hand has been plaguing me with questions since it went down. Let me know what you think. Jim and Tommy, if you guys could hold off on your opinions since you somewhat know what took place that would be great.
Setup: It is a $1-2 table that is extremely loose. Two of the players are a father-son duo who will check it down if it gets to heads up (no matter what they have). The son will play almost anything with a possibility, including 2-5 suited and 8-7 offsuit, for $2 and he almost always calls a raise, no matter how much, if he has anything invested. There is an older player between the father and son who isn't selective with his hands but doesn't play absolute crap. A-X looks like a fine hand to come in for a $20 raise pre-flop. The rest of the table just goes along with these three aggressive guys.
You start this hand with $323. You are dealt A-10 of spades in the big blind. When it gets back around to you there are six others in the hand who have all just called the $2. Since the average raise at this table is $17 (being between $15-20) you decide a raise in this situation will not get anyone out (not that you really want to anyway) and although you could sweeten pot by adding another $5-10 in case you do happen to hit big, you elect to just check your option and take it to a flop. The pot has $14 in it.
The flop comes Ad-10h-8h. You hit this flop very hard and decide to check-raise this hand with so many aggressive players to act after you. After you check another player checks and the son leads out for $25. Perfect! He then gets two callers. Huh? It comes to the dealer (with about the same amount as you) who raises to $100 flat. The small blind folds.
My question to you is this: What do you do at this point? The other players at the table have between $40-200 in front of them. Keep in mind the fact that this table loves to draw for a straight or flush, so any person with two hearts or J-9, 9-7 or even an inside draw of some kind might call the $100, especially the guys who have $25 already out there. The old man between the father and son has about $30 left after calling the $25.
So, what do you do here? Fold your top two pair? Call and see what happens on the turn, which leaves you with $221 left? Raise to $200 leaving yourself an amount that nobody will fold to on the turn if you move all in if you are called? Raise all in for $321 and get it down to a heads up situation or possibly three-way hand? |
