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Old 12-09-2005, 02:21 PM
BK_ BK_ is offline
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Default Re: Trips line help...5/10

this is actually a common situation and one that i do not play optimally everytime.

his turn raise does not scare you enough to shut down. you would like to get more money in the pot, but you would like to do so in a way that maximizes profit vs his 4 most likely hands: J9, J good kicker, 3 worse kicker, and full house.

if stacks were deeper, it would be an easy decision to call the turn raise and 2/3 pot the river. this gets paid off by most of those worse hands, and has the added benefit of leaving you room to get away vs a better hand. it is unlikely that he will raise the river with a worse hand, so that is not a problem.

the stacks arnt that deep however, so the stop and go is somewhat less attractive. you still get paid off nicely vs worse hands, but now the advantage of being able to get away vs better hands does not hold. you will be getting too good of odds on the river no matter what.

so now that we do not care about folding vs better hands, it becomes a matter of extracting the max from worse hands. i see 3 options being pretty equal: 3 betting the turn smallish, calling the turn and betting the river, and calling the turn and c/r the river. someone please convince me that one is better than the other.
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