Mirage 20-40: Setting a trap and luring your opponent(s) into it

[Paluka]

I think you have to raise the turn here. Your opponent bet blind, so he thinks you don't really need much to raise here. Consequently, he may re-raise you if he has any sort of hand at all. Also, too many action killers can show up on the river.

[RollaJ]

I think you played it poorly, you should have raised more as obviously he wasnt going to fold his hand, he was gamboooling that hand. Your best play would have been to raise his dark turn bet in the dark, and hopefully get 3 bet

[KUBowler99]

Dynasty:

I think your best play would have been to reraise pre-flop (and call his guaranteed reraise), raise the flop dark/call the reraise, and then Raise/reraise the turn dark until he gives in and calls. Then bet the river dark.

KUBowler

[Dynasty]

Obviously, I won the showdown. My opponent had a 9 with a hand like 95o.

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Nice hand What made you decide not reraise him preflop??

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I was going to reraise with 2 or more opponents in the pot. With just the blind raiser, I assumed I was so far ahead that I could get some advantages by letting my opponent play aggressive and try to intimidate me.

Once I flop the flush, the only question is when to raise. Since this guy was betting blind, I thought he'd bet the river and I could get him there whether he had a hand or not- a classic slowplay strategy. This opponent wasn't the type to give excessive action with a weak hand or no hand. He could bluff but if I fired back at him, he could certainly fold.

[J_V]

This is why arguing poker hands on a forum w/ players who are very good and have the fundamentals covered is useless.

"I was going to reraise with 2 or more opponents in the pot. With just the blind raiser, I assumed I was so far ahead that I could get some advantages by letting my opponent play aggressive and try to intimidate me.

Once I flop the flush, the only question is when to raise. Since this guy was betting blind, I thought he'd bet the river and I could get him there whether he had a hand or not- a classic slowplay strategy. This opponent wasn't the type to give excessive action with a weak hand or no hand. He could bluff but if I fired back at him, he could certainly fold."

Without that info, it's a turn raise, with not raising seems logical.

[worm33]

I would raise the turn blind here.
1. It looks like your gambling with him.
2. If he has a naked diamond, hes not going to call your raise on the river, and if he makes his diamond he is either going to bet into you on the river or checkraise you.
3. Raising blind is fun.

[Tommy Angelo]

"I would raise the turn blind here."

Nice. I was thinking the same.

[Dynasty]

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This is why arguing poker hands on a forum w/ players who are very good and have the fundamentals covered is useless

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I don't agree. But, I think I needed to give better information about the Small Blind.

[JayKon]

When someone says "I wanna gamble" and you got the nuts, but don't gamble with him, I've seen players stop giving that person action. It kinda pisses them off.

I would have raised the flop and if three-bet (which he probably would have) just called. Then raised the turn too followed by as many bats as I could.

If he wanna gamble, then keep him happy.

Jay

[JayKon]