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Old 08-15-2005, 12:43 PM
kitaristi0 kitaristi0 is offline
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Default Re: Did I do this right? First O8 Hand Post

Preflop calling is definitely correct.

On the flop you have 16 cards to the nut low, and 4 of those to a wheel, which might or might not be good (probably isn't). With that many outs I prefer to call and try to pull in people, bloating the pot so that if I hit my draw I'll win a big one. The problem, IMO, with raising is the players behind you have to face two bets cold, and whilst people may call two cold with top pair or the 4th nut low draw at these stakes, they won't when you move up in limits, so raising will tend to knock out players, instead of keeping them in, which is what you want.

On the turn you've made your nut low and now's the time to start jamming.

The river comes and you've got the nut low and top two pair (which won't be good a lot of the time). Betting out is fine, but 3-betting it, again for the aforementioned reasons, isn't optimal IMO. It'll tend to knock out players who would've called the one extra bet, and that's less money in your pocket at the end of session.
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