Q&A #121: What I Do On Paired Ultra-Dry Flops

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Recently there was an interesting discussion on the message board about a hand that karbyn played in a $2-$5 live game. Here’s the intro post:

First hand 2/5 live. There’s about 6 regulars, 3 unknowns, and me. I sit down in Seat #1 with $340 racked from a good 1/2 session, and decide to not top it up to $500. I post my BB, and see A4o. It comes around to me, and it looks like seat 2 or 3 has raised to $10, and a couple others have called, so I absentmidedly put in another 5. Then everyone else starts putting in another $5 … what? Turns out seat 2 and 3 had called the $5, but their chips were close together and seat 3′s cards were blocked from my view. Everyone realizes I didn’t mean to raise, and I admitted it. Anyway, no biggie.

Flop ( pot = $60 ) J44r.

Great flop for me, but vulnerable to any limping pocket pair of which there could be a couple. How do I approach the rest of the hand seeing as I am first to act with 5 to follow me.

Definitely check out the commentary in the thread, as it’s interesting, and I won’t be rehashing it in this post.

I just wanted to expand a little bit on an idea I presented in the thread about my approach to playing very dry flops multiway.

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