Can YOU get away from this hand?

[Gar Pike]

What is your strategy for finding out if you are ahead or behind? How does that change with the size of your stack in relation to the blinds? What was your plan for this hand, when you decided to play?

Follow your plan.

You can hardly make a reasonable-sized flop bet, and then fold if re-raised, with your stack size. If you check, do you assume you're behind if somebody bets?

Close your eyes, shove it in and hope. (Win or go home early strategy)

Or fold immediamente when it's your turn to act. (survive to barely in the money strategy)

Either way, you're not going to know if you were ahead or behind until it's all over.

I would expect, if your assesment of the table is good, that you pushed and lost to a pair of Qs or an AT.
or the SB played a JT after all those callers... [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]
or you folded and the winner turned over AK [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

It might be that if you had bet more preflop (say, 400-500?) you could have check/folded the flop with an easier conscience, but...

Of course, the snap answer to the question you asked is " Send away for the ACME Mind-reading course, 'Mind-reading for Fun and Profit'" [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Regards

Gar