£100NL - Help needed! (Hand Three)

[vickysbiggestfan]

Hand Three :

I have £130ish in my stack. The villian is in MP in this hand and is a loose passive player. He limps into every hand, regardless of position and will call a raised preflop 4 out of 5 hands. The villian has me comfortably covered.

There are 7 players at the table. I am in the SB with Ks Kc. Three people limp into the pot. I raise to £7 (4x BB + 3 limpers). There are two callers (both have position on me), everyone else folds. The pot is now £23.

The flop is Th 3h 7d. I have no interest in slowplaying a flush draw board and would be happy to take the pot down there and then. So I bet £20. The villian calls, the other guy folds. Pot is now £73.

The turn is the 9c. I fire out a £50 bet, he calls.

River is the 8s. I check, he shoves me all in. I fold and flip over my KK in disgust. He is then goaded by the other players into showing his hand and he shows Jh 5h for a rivered straight.

My thought processes :

Preflop : Same as hand one, I don't like slowplaying KK especially from OOP.

Flop : Two players in the pot, flush draw on the board I wanted to take the pot down there and then or at least marginalise to one vs one. Was my bet here too strong (or weak)?

Turn : It did cross my mind he may have chased a gutshot and made a straight here, but if he was flush chasing (which is what I suspected, although I had seen him call down with top pair, mid pair etc) then he'd have missed. However there was also a straight draw on the board now hence my bet of £50. Should I have jammed here or kept the pot under control by betting half the pot?

River : I knew I was dead to any Jack, 6, two pair, set etc and my Kings no longer looked strong so I checked and it was an easy (but frustrating!) laydown on the river.

[sk8r_daniel]

Note: Moderator may want to move this to Live Poker Forum

Preflop: In most live games I raise a little bit more... essentially you want 1 or 2 callers. Good.

Flop: Good

Turn: Kind of a gross card, he could have be slowplaying or have hit 2 pair. However there are a ton of pair/ combo draws out there that you need to punish.

River: On one hand You have 50 behind and the pot is 160 + his 50 raise = 210/50 or ~4-1. These are great odds.
On the flip side this is a nasty river card, as many straights and 2 pairs just hit. Probably a good fold.

This goes to show you that live players are so bad they call with J5s and disregard pot odds and are basically cranking a slot machine and hoping for the goods. If the table is such that they are still calling your bets, then bet even more! Get as much money in the middle with the best hand as you can.