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Old 07-16-2005, 12:20 AM
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Default Re: Another \"did I play this right?\" thread

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If I understood this post correctly then you went all in off the flop with your 2 pair. This play is potentially bad for a number of reasons:
1. If no one has a hand, then the odds of you making money on this pot are very slim.
2. There was a straight possibility off the flop, and since everyone at the table limped in, its perfectly possible that you are facing the 3-5 off suit making the straight.

That being said, you made the right read on your opponents that no one made the straight, you just got beaten by a bad draw. In the long run this play would make you some money, you hit some bad luck. This has been happenning to me a lot lately (see my post "Luck Luck Luck" in the holdem forum), but theres not much you can do. I'd caution the 2 pair all in for the reasons listed above.

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There is a monster stack who limped, but I don't put him limping with 3/5 offsuit given what I've seen of him.

While it's possible that my opponent in the BB holds the 3/5 offsuit, again, the odds are against this, given all the possible hand combinations.

I figure to be ahead of both players in this situation, given there is only a large stacked limper and a big blind in the hand with me.

And if one of them does have an Ace, it's unlikely he's hit two pair since I hold two of the cards already out. I didn't have an opportunity to "read" any of my opponents, since I was first to act in the small blind. I just saw that I flopped two pair, there's 650-700 or so in the pot, which would be a nice addition to my stack, and if I get called I'm likely ahead and have an opportunity to double up, since I'll need about 9K to be an "average" stack when we make the money, and I'm sitting on under 3K at this point.
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