Quote Originally Posted by evman150
Is raising to 15BB before the flop with a shitty hand a good idea? Is it really worth betting so much to take down that three or four bucks sitting in the middle?

By far the worst play of the hand.

And I doubt you'll ever get four callers all calling 15BB preflop. Especially at NL100.

All that aside, you have to bet the turn. You have to bet it all as well, cause if you only bet 20 or something you're basically giving them a free card and if you bet 60 you're going to have to put the last 20 in the pot on the river due to pot odds anyway. So might as well just put it all in and hope for the best.

Free cards are death.

As for Q2, I would call into such a big pot. You're getting 3.5:1 on your call and after showing weakness on the turn by checking behind, the guy just might be bluffing. With 3.5:1 odds it's an easy call.
Thnx for the response, Ev. The raise is 4xBB not 15xBB (With a $3 big blind that's a $12 raise). The total pot size after four callers is $75. And yes, this happens all the time where I play.

I agree that free cards are death, but there's no draw there other than the backdoor flush. If they're calling me with a lower kicker, odds are that they won't hit their second pair, right?

The thing that's weird to me is that why would the guy call the $40 in the first place? So what kind of holding could he have to bluff with on the river?

I'm not disagreeing with you at all though. I just have more questions.