Re: playing a set when it\'s obvious you have a set
So it seems as though your mission has to be to make 210 bucks or so to justify your preflop call. He's already given you 125 of that (preflop and postflop betting plus the blinds plus the other caller). You need to make another hundred. There's a good way to do that and leave the possibility open of a pretty decent pot-smooth call the flop. That way he'll probably put you on an ace and bet out the turn to see how good it is. Call the turn if he bets it, if not bet a medium-sized amount (around 120). In either case you're representing an ace well enough that if he checks the river you can value bet him for a couple hundred and he'll be stuck because of the size of the pot. There's a chance he's betting out with KK or QQ getting ready to give up the flop. The risk of that being the case and him sucking out are small enough that you can lay the trap. I say slowplay until the river and then figure out how much you can get him to call.
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