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10/20 NL hand
10/20
I have BB with J [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] Q [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] A consistent winning player limps 1st in from MP. Button raises minimum to $40. I call in the BB, MP calls as well. Pot size: $120 Flop: T [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 9 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] K [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] I check, MP bets $120. Button folds, I raise to $360. MP calls. Pot size: $840 Turn: 5 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] I check, and MP bets out $400. After some deliberation, I raise him all-in for ~$1200 more. Thoughts? |
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Re: 10/20 NL hand
Don't call pre-flop.
After that, though, it was fine. He probably has slick, with the As, maybe 99 or 1010. |
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Re: 10/20 NL hand
Hi Lucky,
[ QUOTE ] Don't call pre-flop. [/ QUOTE ] Be serious. This is an excellent spot to play QJs. You get to have a pot-building raise, and since someone else made it, you give away nothing about your hand. I would never, ever fold this pre-flop for $20 when one player in the pot has about $2000 in front of him. [ QUOTE ] He probably has slick, with the As, maybe 99 or 1010. [/ QUOTE ] He probably DOESN'T have slick, as this would be a re-raising hand to many strong players. But a medium pair is a good guess. The obvious danger is that Axs is also a likely candidate to be played this way. |
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Re: 10/20 NL hand
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Don't call pre-flop. [/ QUOTE ] Are you insane?!?!?!?! This is an easy call. |
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Re: 10/20 NL hand
Bet out on the flop. Either a cheap pokey looking bet or a nice fat overbet.
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Re: 10/20 NL hand
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Either a cheap pokey looking bet [/ QUOTE ] Wouldn't a pokey bet be giving a flush draw proper odds to draw? |
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Re: 10/20 NL hand
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Wouldn't a pokey bet be giving a flush draw proper odds to draw? [/ QUOTE ] You should be more concerned about how a big pot hand pans out than giving incorrect odds to a flush draw. If you get raised on the flop you get a chance to push allin/make a huge reraise, which is excellent. However, if you are just called, you will unlikely be moved off the best hand because your pokey bet makes it looks a lot like you have a draw; thus people will become more passive when a scare card comes - perfect. NB: I am speaking of a bet of about $70. |
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Re: 10/20 NL hand
Hi jcaesar,
You played this one very well, as long as you felt it was likely that your opponent would bet the turn if you checked. You want him to bet, and if you're beaten, you must live with it. His bet size is excellent, by the way, as it looks like a bet that doesn't mind being called. Calling pre-flop is automatic. |
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Re: 10/20 NL hand
pre-flop - easy call.
flop - really dislike going for the check-raise here. i would lead out here almost all the time as there is a player between you and the PFR. It is also a possiblity the flop doesnt get bet. turn - i really like your check-raise here. you have no spade and most opponents can't pass up this bet when checked to, trying to protect their hand or represent a bigger hand. |
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Re: 10/20 NL hand
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flop - really dislike going for the check-raise here. i would lead out here almost all the time as there is a player between you and the PFR. It is also a possiblity the flop doesnt get bet. [/ QUOTE ] Nero, between the type of players that were in, I knew almost 100% that the flop would be bet. Mainly, my play here was to trap the button, who I knew would bet automatically if we both checked to him as the PFR. I had this read on him because he obviously had an inflated ego from catching a nice run of cards and a tilted player that pushed his buy-in from $2000 to a ridiculous stack of $16,000). Previously, he had been betting hands like 37o and J3o from position at any sign of weakness from those to act before him. |
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