Do I Have the Discipline to Lay This Down?

[SilentBobAK47]

One thing to remember about me right now is that I am hatching a fresh bankroll from scratch and I only have about a buck and a half to work with at the moment. That is why I am grinding the shallow stacked penny tables.

I am relatively new to the table so I don't really have any reads. I decided not to re-raise with AK because if I end up in a flip with one of them it'll be for a big chunk of my stack so I wanted to see a flop and go from there. I flopped top pair but that board texture doesn't make AK look so good. But because it's a penny table they could be betting anything. With that said, would you lay this down?

[TheCol]

I would have to call that one. Being such low stakes, the all-in could have anything. But I think your leading the hand or tieing the hand at least. But then you could be drawing dead. I dont like playing such low stakes because of the way people play.

[SilentBobAK47]

Originally Posted by TheCol

I dont like playing such low stakes because of the way people play.

Neither do I but at the moment I don't have a choice. I know how you feel though but these games can be real juicy.

[Tim]

I would buy-in for the max, and always be raising pre-flop to thin the field. But since you haven't done this, and are playing small ball, I guess you can fold. TPTK is probably losing.

BTW, is this an experiement or do you really only have a buck and a half?

[Queso]

What manner of discipline could possibly entice you to lay that down for the 60 cents in front of you? For that matter, why didn't you raise all in preflop?

[Queso]

We better start passing the hat.

[SilentBobAK47]

Originally Posted by Tim

BTW, is this an experiement or do you really only have a buck and a half?

Out of frustration for the way I've been running on there I took out everything I had left but $5. lol

I challenged myself to build a new bankroll with that money.

My main strategy because I don't have that much to work with is to play more small ball poker. Seems to be going well so far I just can't pick up many hands.

[idmtchris]

I would have to call here, J10 is likely with everyone calling, but atleast you have backdoor redraws to the nuts.

[DangerMouse]

I think you can fold here. There are a lot of hands that have you in terrible shape, JT, 99. KQ, maybe even K9, Q9, and of course you have a player behind you who led out who might have one of those hands or a flush draw.

[SilentBobAK47]

So, what happened?

Of course I folded and the shover was called by the original better who had a flush draw against the shover's AK and the flush hit on the turn.

A lot of people can argue that I should have 3bet the AK and in most situations I would have. But because I'm grinding a new bankroll I didn't feel like putting all 60 cents at risk without seeing a flop first.