Play a Hand With the Masters #2 Flop II

[Sluss]

Sometimes a pause before a min raise means that he is trying to trap. Of course it also could mean he was doing some math and typing in a number that ended up in the chat box and then the timer beeped so he quickly just hit the Raise button. Or his ass was itchy and he scratched before hitting the raise button.

Given a normal play here with only 30 seconds to think I push over the top. He folds and I only get 1500 then bitch later when I'm shortstacked.

I really think he has some sort of a drawing kind of hand. AQ, A10, KQ, J10 or he thinks he is being tricky with a KJ, AJ or AK. A hand that has us crushed (AA, KK, JJ, Q10) would probably be setting more of a trap here with a smooth call. The mini raise is more of a, "I have a piece, do you?"

A call here does a few different things. First of all it is going to take a great read to interpret a scare card. Because Villain is likely to think he has made a better hand if he has J10 or A10 and a 10 hits the turn. That's my weak/tight fear.

In all reality the best chip extraction method is probably to call here and then raise the turn leadout or lead out yourself for half the pot on the turn. Sure sometimes your going to be drawn out on. Sometimes you are going to be afraid you were drawn out on and consider laying down your top two. But at this point all of my money is going in and I really want all of the villain's chips going in so why not do it slowly instead of losing your prey. You've got to gamble to win right? [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]