Top 2 pair on drawy board

[jabit]

Hi all, what is your move here?

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.05 BB (5 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

MP ($5)
Button ($0.94)
SB ($8.79)
BB ($10.89)
Hero (UTG) ($5.16)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with ,
Hero raises to $0.25, MP calls $0.25, 2 folds, BB calls $0.20

Flop: ($0.77) , , (3 players)
BB bets $0.15, Hero raises to $0.70, 1 fold, BB calls $0.55

Turn: ($2.17) (2 players)
BB bets $0.15, Hero ?????

[verstehen]

Make the hero laydown since the 1/15th pot size bet is always the nuts.   

OK seriously, given your stack size relative to the pot just raise all-in.  If you call, you're allowing a lot of bad river cards to mess up this hand, T, any , K are all problematic for your hand (and they may make him not call a bet anyway).  Unless you really think he's trapping with KT I'm inclined to get it in. 

[jabit]

Anything wrong/suspect about my preflop and flop play?

[Deadmoney]

Looks good and what Adam said

Regards David

[jabit]

Ok.. I feel much better about it now...

Make the hero laydown since the 1/15th pot size bet is always the nuts.  

OK seriously, given your stack size relative to the pot just raise all-in.  If you call, you're allowing a lot of bad river cards to mess up this hand, T, any , K are all problematic for your hand (and they may make him not call a bet anyway).  Unless you really think he's trapping with KT I'm inclined to get it in. 

Couldn't have been any more correct! I shoved, river was a rag, he had . 

I'm still trying to learn how to size my bets better. I always get nervous in this situation because I feel that I am just blowing all the worse hands off, and giving my chips to the better hand. Hands like this don't help 

[Coughy_boy]

Post oak.  Let him lead and call him down.  Your hand is way too strong to fold.

Unless you really think he's trapping with KT

This is not the issue.  He's not protecting his hand.  Simply take advantage of that and see the cheap card.

[jabit]

Hey coughy,

I think I have seen you write this somewhere else. What does "post oak" mean? (is it bad that I don't know??  )

[Coughy_boy]

See my reply to V.  Post oak is very cheap lumber.  It's irregular but it's strong.  It's used to repair fence posts, hence "post" oak.

[tawnos]

Jabit, check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_oak_bluff

[jabit]

ahh.. Thanks Tawnos. 

I even wiki'd "post oak" but only got reference to the tree.. and nothing else.

[Deadmoney]

I have made these plays (On a Bluff only as opposed to here where he had the nuts)

Usually I check in the BB with shit and the flop is 558, everyone checks the flop and the turn is 3 ... I lead out for minimum here sometimes.....



Oh the shame of it...

Regards David

[verstehen]

Ok.. I feel much better about it now...

Make the hero laydown since the 1/15th pot size bet is always the nuts.  

OK seriously, given your stack size relative to the pot just raise all-in.  If you call, you're allowing a lot of bad river cards to mess up this hand, T, any , K are all problematic for your hand (and they may make him not call a bet anyway).  Unless you really think he's trapping with KT I'm inclined to get it in. 

Couldn't have been any more correct! I shoved, river was a rag, he had . 

I'm still trying to learn how to size my bets better. I always get nervous in this situation because I feel that I am just blowing all the worse hands off, and giving my chips to the better hand. Hands like this don't help 

Well you might consider raising more on the flop.  You're giving him decent odds to call and catch and stack you, especially with stacks >100BB each. 

OK I guess 1/15th pot is the nuts? 

[Coughy_boy]

The wiki article is wrong.  People made post oak bets long before anyone ever tried it as a bluff.

The "post oak bluff" became wildly popular after Daniel N. did it once for HUGE stakes ($100,000 or so).  He made a very small bet on the river holding nothing, and the other guy folded.  Plus, saying "post oak bluff" is cool and sounds like you go out drinking and whoring with Doyle B.