Re: how not to do it, by elysium.
I often hear people say that they'll "bet to see where they're at". At first it sounded like a good idea, and then I read something from TJ Cloutier that said "if I wanna know where i'm at, I check and see what happens". I tried that too, it works much better, at least for me.
I really like you anaylsis of the hand, and wonder if, even though you would have won a showdown, your fold was still correct. I'm not very good at advanced poker math, but isn't this one of those "reverse implied odds" situations? You may already be beat, and the chance of you ending up with the best hand in an 8 way field with that board can't be very high. I don't know how to work the numbers, maybe somebody thats advanced w/ pokerstove can figure it out, but i'm thinking that if your fold was wrong, it probably wasn't wrong by much.
Nice hand.
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