Am I playing to tight?

[Fusspilz]

Always hard when your opponent needs runner-runner ... and hits. Hardest bad-beat I ever suffered when I held 77 in the late stages of a tournament. I limped in from early position, flop came 237 rainbow. BB bets, I raise he goes all-in with 23. Guess what happened? turn 3, river 3, thank you for playing, your finishing position is ....

[Silent Greek]

I seem to play very tight in money torneys and always end up regreting it, then in freerolls i end up playing stupid hands and again end up regreting it.

[jeffsbabe]

I would not have been in the hand at all with those cards, even if I was in the small blind. You see the problem the minute the flop comes. Your cards are not strong enough to take chances on and now you've lost your $460.

[nateadkins1221]

Originally Posted by Dunbar

I would like to share this hand with you guys, any thoughts about it?

Hand #1423011448000704: Pebble Beach 11448
Seat 1: PlayzWnuTz (102,30 in chips)
Seat 2: Psynesthesia (30,70 in chips)
Seat 3: .Volleyball. (22,00 in chips)
Seat 5: J.Porta (50,00 in chips)
Seat 6: KAPITOLLIKA (43,85 in chips)
Seat 7: EX_SGT_USMC (30,00 in chips)
Seat 8: tteska (65,15 in chips)
Seat 10: Dunbar (40,70 in chips)
Dunbar: posts small blind $0,25
PlayzWnuTz: posts big blind $0,50
EX_SGT_USMC: posts big blind $0,50
Dealt to Dunbar [ 4s 6c ]
Psynesthesia: folds
.Volleyball.: folds
J.Porta: folds
KAPITOLLIKA: calls
EX_SGT_USMC: checks
tteska: calls
Dunbar: calls
PlayzWnuTz: checks
@@@ F_L_O_P @@@ [ Kh 4h 6d ]
Dunbar: bets $1,25
PlayzWnuTz: calls
KAPITOLLIKA: calls
EX_SGT_USMC: folds
tteska: raises to $6
Dunbar: ???

What would you have done, and why?
To make things clear: I played the 46o because I was on the small blind.

your hand preflop is either worth folding or worth raising... try to avoid calls... unless you have position

[eaglezoners]

I agree with the logic of those above -- if he had KK , he would have raised pre-flop; chances of him having trip 4s or 6s is diminished by your hand. If he had a pair of kings maybe its a semi-bluff or maybe he has flush draw with a semi-bluff. But in the event he has a flush draw, I presume i am ahead and would have pushed all-in to make him pay heavily to see another card.

[Mist]

Originally Posted by nateadkins1221

your hand preflop is either worth folding or worth raising... try to avoid calls... unless you have position

Well, I disagree with you. When you're getting 8:1 odds it's perfectly ok to just call OOP because you're risking little to win big.

[mundybags1]

given the information and since he limped on the button i would have reraised him. probably had KQ or AK. i would have put in a bet of 15. his big raise would also seem like a bet to stop draws. i think your good here.

[Upward_Trend]

Originally Posted by eaglezoners

I agree with the logic of those above -- if he had KK , he would have raised pre-flop; chances of him having trip 4s or 6s is diminished by your hand. If he had a pair of kings maybe its a semi-bluff or maybe he has flush draw with a semi-bluff. But in the event he has a flush draw, I presume i am ahead and would have pushed all-in to make him pay heavily to see another card.

This may not go over as accepted practice but I check on KK to see what's happening out there - the problem I find; if I make a bold raise of any sort is you have no opponents when it makes its way around the table. So I check - no one suspects the high pair -- right???? And I made a few penny's from the bets on the tuirn and the river. Now this is a new style for me after a bad beat last week with KK - opponent had AA -- and he sat idle simply calling my aggressive bets. I was impressed by that although I was pissed at his aces....

[Upward_Trend]

Since my post I've changed my stance - I was reminded that slow playing KK leaves open the chance for the limpers to strike a flush or their straight draw making my K's worthless -- now I play the KK in a manner that I bet enough to expel the limpers. Wow, I can't believe the number of hands I've witnessed over the last couple of days where AA and KK fall on the same hand and naturally the AA makes a pile of money as the KK thinks he has made in the shade -- realistically - how often to you see AA and KK in the same hand? I've seen a few a night now it seems.

[khicks26]

yes, never slow play KK. not only do you raise to protect your hand. but you you raise to build a pot. you don,t get big hands that much. so when you do, you got to get as much out of them as you can. as AA vs KK, just a standard cooler. it happens.