How would YOU! play this hand:

Ribbo · #1 08-24-2005, 08:47 PM

You were not the preflop aggressor.

MaxSquat · #2 08-24-2005, 09:15 PM

Yikes...right now I would be afraid of pocket Kings....yes nice royal flush draw with nut straight...not sure what I'll do....so what did you do?

Mendacious · #3 08-24-2005, 09:28 PM

I call any bet ahead of me and put a standard half pot bet if it is checked to me. (which I do alot), and there's a good chance everyone folds, but I can live with that. If I'm lucky, someone else made the straight, and I pot him the rest of the way.

emptyshell · #4 08-24-2005, 09:30 PM

Open fold. It can only get you into trouble.

Ribbo · #5 08-24-2005, 09:36 PM

It got checked to me and I led out a $6 bet into a $24 pot that got 1 caller. Clearly checking the flop should not be an option right?

Ribbo · #6 08-24-2005, 09:38 PM

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Yikes...right now I would be afraid of pocket Kings....yes nice royal flush draw with nut straight...not sure what I'll do....so what did you do?

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Why would you be afraid of pocket kings with you holding pocket jacks? He only has 3 outs on the flop. The ten of spades and the case jack is no good.

Mendacious · #7 08-24-2005, 09:46 PM

I'd prefer the 1/2 pot or less bet unless you feel pretty sure the guy behind you will bet. I think you want any drawers to think they have odds, and you want money in the pot. And you want to give a made straight who may have checked in front of you a chance to re-raise.

graarrg · #8 08-24-2005, 10:02 PM

that hand is sex.

fat_nutz · #9 08-24-2005, 11:34 PM

I would pot it. The only way you're going to get action on this hand is if someone else has broadway also, and if they do, then you may as well get your freerolled pot charged up.

Ribbo · #10 08-25-2005, 01:03 AM

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I would pot it. The only way you're going to get action on this hand is if someone else has broadway also, and if they do, then you may as well get your freerolled pot charged up.

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I disagree. If someone has the nut straight on the flop, a small bet will get them to play back at you, you can at this point shove back. If however they have some marginal holding, then a small bet of around 25% of the pot will get them to doubt your holding.
http://www.pokerhand.org/index.php?p...mp;hand=112958
This is how I played the hand through in the end. Remember that I bet big a lot of times, so when I bet small it looks like i'm either uncertain about my hand to someone, or I really want them to call.
As I have pointed out in previous posts, if they don't call because you bet too much, then you've lost money. What I did particularily with the hand is make my holding look like a steal on the river. It's often important to think about what your bet looks like to another person. If the situation was reversed, what would you think about someone betting $6 into a $24 pot on the flop, then $6 again when a flush hits and the pot is $36.