Flopped trip K

[HajiShirazu]

You bet because you'd play AJ, QJ, A9s, and 88 the same way and pretty much any opponent no matter how bad knows that.

[bdk3clash]

Two words:

Implied odds.

[bdk3clash]

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6:1 requires 7 outs.

On the surface, he has 9 if he's four-flushed. Let's see how smart/paranoid he is:

--He has to subtract one for the unknown hole card, so...

--Is he obligated to subtract 1 or more because there are four cards that will leave him drawing dead?

Maybe not at Party, but this discussion should be relevant to more than Party $.50/$1, so I will take another pass at this problem on my own. I will try to compare the odds of improving to a full house with a set against the odds of improving to a flush with three or four suited cards, versus the chances of drawing someone in for another bet. I hope Mike Petriv has covered something similar.

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You're presupposing that the player drawing to the flush knows that he's already up against trips. Furthermore, even if he is (and knows he is), he's still correct to call on on the flop, given the pot odds and the bets he'll collect from his opponent if/when he hits his flush.

In reality, he should just discount his outs slightly given the paired board and the chance some of his 9 outs aren't really outs, but he still has the odds (pot+implied) to call on the flop (and to call a bet on the turn, by the way.)