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Old 11-09-2005, 01:59 AM
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Default Re: Flopping the stone nuts

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Betting on this flop is retarded 7 handed. For 50c you may well fold out a lot of weak lows and flushes as well chances to catch straights, sets, boats, two pair, etc. This is a check/call flop, or check raise if it's a loose table and someone soon after you bets and gets heaps of callers. Get a nice big pot going so you can hammer the later streets and keep as many people as possible in the hand.

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Two pair or better and almost any low will call you down at these levels, but will never bet here. You are pissing away the flop bets, but aren't gaining any action that you wouldn't already get on later streets. 2 pair will call and pay off big when it fills up which is more money in the pot than when you let them catch the FH which they would have paid to draw to anyway. I think you grossly overestimate the typical party .5/1 player. I also think you suffer from slowplay-itis. You seem to think if you have a big hand you must slowplay, but you really only want to if you have a big hand in such a way that the deck is crippled and no one else can have much at all. That is just not the case here. There are plenty of hands that will call down, but never be able to bet aggressively, so charge them at every street. Of course, if you end up against a nut flush you will have a bingo and likely get every street capped no matter what you do, but there are plenty of payoff hands that you should extract value from on every street.
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