No way should you be minimum raising a bad hand from the big blind once a MP player has called along with the button. Your raise preflop does nothing but make the pot bigger with a bad hand!
I can understand you want to 'defend' your blind every now and then, showdown a trashy blind hand to win a nice pot so that people get the messege that your blind isn't up for grabs, but this is just stupid.
The only time I want to play a hand in the big blind is when I can be HEADS UP against the small blind (IE: with position), then I find myself calling raises with almost anything and also raising with anything because I feel with position you can minimize loses and win a big pot with a surprise hand.
As it happens the button was playing exactly that type of game, he was using his position to try and out-play you..... which is exactly why you should have raised more preflop (IE $3.00) or check-folded and allowed him to steal.
The whole hand stinks after that as well, you should have folded to his minimum re-raise on the flop, he should have folded to your turn bet** and you should have folded again to his minimum raise on the turn!
** Which obviously shows this was definately NOT the player to make this type of play against anyway. away with it
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You lucked out on the river. You were behind all the way...
If you wanna try this type of move I suggest playing some low-buyin short handed sit and go tournaments....blow off steam for fun and practice new things in your game cheaply.Statistics: Posted by Yenool — Fri Sep 22, 2006 3:00 pm
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