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 Timing when you flop the nuts, flintsword, 7. Jun 2003 11:21 | ||
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| Ok, Although I won this online tournament later, I missplayed this hand and I am looking for a variety of constructive advice on how I should have played it. Situation: I have build up the largest stack in a low-limit tournament. There are eight players in the game left. The game is tight, generally speaking. The three players immediately to my left are tight passive (till now), the next three after these TP's play anything so no read really, and the player to my right is tight aggressive. Betting level is 50/100 In the BB I am dealt 8s 8c and after there are three limpers: UTG, UTG+1, and the button, the SB (tight aggressive) folds the SB, and I raise it 200 to go. UTG calls and the button calls. The flop is a dreamy 8d 7s 6h so I have flopped two pairs. I bet 200 because I can see the button playing T9 with the nut str8 as a possibility. UTG player raises but I can't see a tight player calling preflop with T9, so I (in error) put him down for a set on the flop, with either 77 or 66. The button calls, so I figure he is on the draw, and I call hoping for a pair on the board for a full house. The Turn is "a 7" ***grin*** so there may well be a quad facing me if he has 77. I have more chips than UTG, so I think I should have anyways gone all in, instead I bet 300, and UTG raises 300. The problem is that I have not played as if I had a boat on the flop, so it is possible he is on the draw for a str8 or playing the quads. I then decided that if he did have quads, a better strategy is flat calling and getting a bet on the river, so I "decided" that he did not have quads (whew!) in which case I have a great hand, ... so I went all in. UTG goes all in, but since I have the larger stack, I still retain a few hundred chips. UTG turns over 9c 9s. My question, what is the "better way to play this hand" since I suspect that I have wandered into what Mike Caro calls "fancy pants" territory, and a timely ALL-IN at an earlier stage would have folded my UTG player like a lawn chair. To end the story, the River was a 9h and I was kevorked, ... his boat of nines over sevens beating my eights over sevens. Thanks for the advice! flintsword | ||
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| Re: Timing when you flop the nuts, PairTheBoard, 7. Jun 2003 12:24 | ||
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| Hard to see how you could have done any better. You got him all in when you had the best hand and made him pay the maximum to draw for two outs. I can't see any time in the tournament when you would not want to get into that situation. You would win a lot of tournaments if you had enough of those plays. So he got lucky this time. That's why they call it gambling. | ||
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| Re: Timing when you flop the nuts, psuasskicker, 7. Jun 2003 15:10 | ||
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| You didn't misplay the hand, you got bad beat. Sucks, but it happens... - C - | ||
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