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I'd go with your fold anytime. In fact I'd have been tempted to fold to his first raise.
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so this is the part where I'm curious what y'all think. here's my thinking: I can't really call the 50 hoping to fill.
that's my thoughts. off base? right? wrong? the part I am really curious about is the reraise on the flop.
--turnipmonster
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Yes, that was the part I was curious about too [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
I think your reraise could be a good move. But suppose he flat calls it. You're still not out of the bushes here. One of the probs you face is that two of your outs may not be clean - and you don't necessarily know
which two. The fives are dead to any set; the nines to his top two. And all the hearts bar FH outs leave you checking the turn - could he bluff the pot here? With your holding you'd have to fold to a pot sized bet.
One point I'm coming around to in live play is not to overrate opponents. This is quite a decent sized game but even so, I more often than not have found that an unknown player - even if he handles chips well etc - is very often not that good despite possible appearances to the contrary. Mason M. makes the same point in one of his essays. Slightly at a tangent to this thread - here's a really interesting
example of this in action - bad players will do all sorts of strange things which you can't figure them for. That may not help much in this case, but it may when faced with a similar situation at another date. I've started to see this quite a lot now - a player makes a move and it transpires that he's just not playing correctly. All thanks to the poker boom.
HTH