Re: Blinds...Help!
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If you're going to check-raise the flop, you have to make a much larger bet, at least 1000.
As played, you're giving him odds to draw to an OESD, for example.
And look what falls on the turn. So now you don't know where you are, and you're stuck calling his value bets, or possibly folding the best hand.
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I usually handle my small blind vs. big blind spots half-way well...but this one got messy...
You're dead on about what you said...
but doesn't this seem like a hand that would occur about 1% of the time? I have Q9 and flop top two - and the big blind...does he REALLY have 10 J?
I priced him in on purpose actually 'cuz I thought the odds that I'd get paid off by ANY Queen (and quite possibly any 9 - the guy was an uber-fish) were too great to bet him out of the flop...
then the turn...then the river...
I regretted the flop soft-play for sure.
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It's been said before: "The hand that CAN beat you WILL beat you."
Of course, you don't want to always be seeing "Monsters under the bed", but the more poker you play, the more you'll realize that it usually pays to play your strong hands fast, unless you have an absolute monster, which you don't here. There are just too many ways 7 cards can beat you.
I mean, I might occasionally play top 2-pair slow, but it's not my default. I'd have to have a reason for it.
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