Thread: Am I an idiot?
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Old 12-17-2005, 01:32 PM
rikz rikz is offline
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Default Re: Am I an idiot?

Making a min raise from EP with a pair of 3s makes no sense. Just limp in, call a raise that is 10% or less of the effective stacks, and play for a set on the flop.

The min raise was silly here, and it actually just worked to make the pot bigger so that the raise was more than 10% of your stack.

Anyway, the preflop raise was only just slightly more than 10%, so calling is bad but not catestrophic.

Once you flop your set, your job is to act in a way to get the most money in the pot as early as possible without letting possible draws be properly priced in to catch their outs. This board, for example, has a number of draws so betting/raising the flop is better than any kind of slow play.

BTW, if you ran into set over set, then reload and don't worry about it. Any other hand was behind you on the flop where you got all your money in and they'd have needed to get lucky (like 2 running hearts!).
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