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Old 04-12-2005, 08:23 PM
Pokey Pokey is offline
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Default Re: TT: Folded in the right spot?

On the turn, you've got more scare cards than I can count. (OK, so I can't count very high.)

10 diamonds
3 aces
3 kings
3 queens
3 jacks
2 nines
3 eights
2 sevens
3 sixes
2 fives
2 fours
3 threes

Any of these 39(!) cards and you could be totally sunk, even if you're not ALREADY sunk.

What makes CO cap the preflop, three-bet the flop, and bet this turn? A high pocket pair, AK[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] or AQ[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]. Anything else and this behavior is hard to understand. Remember you're seeing all this aggression out of a player with a 1.93 agg level -- that's not a maniac, it's a SLAP. He's supposed to quiet down by now if he doesn't have something worth shouting about.

I think you folded it in the perfect spot. In fact, I think you played this just right:

3-bet the PF to go heads up with a high pair, calling when it doesn't work.
Raise the flop to bump out the diamond draw, calling when it doesn't work.
Dump the turn when the horror is realized.

The only alternative in my mind is to bet the turn card to represent a diamond, expecting to fold to a raise. Still, I don't think you're likely to scare many players away with this bluff unless their WSD% is very low.

You done good. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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