Just Wonderin..

[BuckB07]

i was playin a 3/6 game at the casino last night.. about an hr or so in, i pick up A5 in the big blind.. the guy under the gun raises and every1 folds to the small blind, who calls. I decide, i will call already having $3 in the pot.

the flop comes:
2/3/4 rainbow making the wheel for me.

the small blind bets, i raise and the original raiser folds. The small blind calls me. The turn and river are blanks, both time the small blind checking it to me. I bet the river and he raises me.. I took a second to review the board seeing that only 5/6 would beat me with no pair, or flush possibility on the board. assuming that the guy wouldnt call a raise preflop with that weak of a hand, i re-raise only to see him fire back at me with little hesitation.. i just call assuming we are going chop the pot at worst.. but no, he flips over 5/6, the nut straight..

just wondering what you all think, did i play this hand well or should i have just called his first raise on the river?

[Always_Bored]

I find in low limit games that you can never count on people folding a crappy hand because of a preflop raise. Ive seen people stay in with anything on capped bets preflop. I dont think you played it that bad. Its hard to imagine the guy kept 5,6 but some people just suck and then get lucky.

[snoogins47]

And if it was 56s, that's not nearly, NEARLY as bad as many of the things I've seen calling 2, 3, even 4 raises preflop with in low limit games heh.

But yeah, not much you can do in that situation. Even if you thought he MIGHT have 56, you may still have re-raised, depending on how certain of it you were, and his re-raise was obviously going to be called, as only one hand beats you, and the pot was big anyway.

So, you might have been able to save yourself 2 bets, under optimal circumstances, but you still woulda lost. Sucks, but what can ya do, that's poker, and more specifically, that's low-limit poker for ya.