How did I play this hand? (total newbie)

[Ed Miller]

Hey,

In an unraised pot, you should generally just fold to a flop bet if all you have is overcards. There are definitely exceptions to the rule, but for now just learn the rule.

If the pot was unraised preflop, you flop overcards, and someone bets, fold.

[ajv]

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Hey,

In an unraised pot, you should generally just fold to a flop bet if all you have is overcards. There are definitely exceptions to the rule, but for now just learn the rule.

If the pot was unraised preflop, you flop overcards, and someone bets, fold.

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Thanks for comment, Ed!
Are the required pot odds 1:6.7, but I was getting less to even call on flop?

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[Bjorn]

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Thanks for comment, Ed!
Are the required pot odds 1:6.7, but I was getting less to even call on flop?

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Normaly you'd want significantly better than 1:6.7 to call with two overcards. There are several reasons for this and ED explains them a lot better than i can in SSH but I'll make a laymans attempt to do so.

1) The person betting might already have the overpair you're drawing to beat. (With two pair, a set or an overpair for instance)

2) Your overpair is allways at risk from redraws. For exemple if in the hand you posted the original better had T9 and you catch a jack on the turn that is not a sure win because he can in turn draw you out on the river by catching a T (trips), 9 (two pair) or 8 (straight).

3) He might have a hand that also improves when you catch one of your outs such as AT, JT, A7 etc.

/Bjorn