colos1
04-02-2004, 03:08 AM
Ok, heres the problem I'm having. According to Poker tracker my small blind is my least profitable position, it's in the hole big time.
I used to fold my small blind constantly unless I had good playable hands and I never paid attention to how many people were in the pot when deciding to call or not. Now I am on the other end of the scale and I seem to always pay to see the flop no matter what I'm holding, either I tell myslef theres so many people in that if I hti the flop I will get paid off big time or I tell myself that there is so few callers that even If i hit a pair I will be good.
Afrer reading some posts on this board and re-evaluating my small blind play it was apparent this was a leak in my game. I realized that depending on the # of callers sometimes it is the correct play to call to see the flop, but here lies my problem.
How do you figure out the correct odds to call and see the flop? I have no problem calculating pot odds after I have seen the flop, that is easy but how do I figure out if I should pay that extra little bit to see the flop? For example if I have a hand like K 8 offsuit which i would never play how do i determine my pot odds wehen deciding to see the flop or not? Hands like 7/8 offsuit give me problems as well.
Can anyone point me in the right direction or explaing to me how to calculate the odds to properly determine weather or not I should call preflop..
Thank You
I used to fold my small blind constantly unless I had good playable hands and I never paid attention to how many people were in the pot when deciding to call or not. Now I am on the other end of the scale and I seem to always pay to see the flop no matter what I'm holding, either I tell myslef theres so many people in that if I hti the flop I will get paid off big time or I tell myself that there is so few callers that even If i hit a pair I will be good.
Afrer reading some posts on this board and re-evaluating my small blind play it was apparent this was a leak in my game. I realized that depending on the # of callers sometimes it is the correct play to call to see the flop, but here lies my problem.
How do you figure out the correct odds to call and see the flop? I have no problem calculating pot odds after I have seen the flop, that is easy but how do I figure out if I should pay that extra little bit to see the flop? For example if I have a hand like K 8 offsuit which i would never play how do i determine my pot odds wehen deciding to see the flop or not? Hands like 7/8 offsuit give me problems as well.
Can anyone point me in the right direction or explaing to me how to calculate the odds to properly determine weather or not I should call preflop..
Thank You