Re: Fit or Fold? (semi-generalized flop question)
I got around this question fairly easily: I don't fold.
If you hit the flop and there's a bet to you, the odds are very good that one of the following two scenarios is true:
-you have the proper pot odds to continue with a 5-outer.
-you are in a short-handed pot where bottom pair may well be good, and/or a raise might win you a free card (or get your opponent to fold a better hand).
Really, unless I'm involved in a situation where I have a solid read that the flop bettor will not bet without at least top pair and the pot odds do not justify calling with a 5-outer, or I hit bottom pair, the player to my right bets out on a board very likely to have hit my opponents, and there is a large field behind me (ex: 95o from the BB in a 5-handed, unraised pot, with a flop of Q5A), I can't really think of too many times when I'm folding a flopped pair.
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