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Old 09-23-2005, 10:22 AM
TheWorstPlayer TheWorstPlayer is offline
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Default Re: AK Sooooooted, River play...?

UTG has 68 or a worse spade draw here a lot. I raise the flop to force out people with marginal pairs so that you can win the pot without improving against UTG. And if people call behind you, no big deal because you have a great draw.

Edit: This time I really did mess up the position. Since you're in the SB, this is the most beautiful set up for bet/3-bet all-in against the BN preflop raiser. You can trap everyone in the middle. How awesome will it be to bet and get called by a worse flush draw, BN raises, you push, worse flush draw calls, BN folds, you win a huge pot unimproved on the river?

This is another case of looking at your stack size and seeing where you have the most equity. With a huge draw like this, you have the most equity on the flop. So try to determine the best line to get it all in on the flop. If you miss on the turn, then you will lose a lot of equity. So you don't want to get a lot in there. In the other hand, you have the most equity on a blank turn. So you should set it up so that you can easily get it all in on a blank turn. You would do that by betting flop and then pushing turn. Here, you get it all in on the flop by betting the flop and then pushing over a raise.
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