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 How to play this hand, Mike812, 16. Jul 2003 23:09 | ||
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| Lately, I have trying to improve this part of my game. Tonight, I was playing $20 NL with a couple of people. I have A-7 suited on the button. The flop comes 7, 7, 5. I bet about $3, get two callers. The next card is another 7. I know I have the best hand, but I do not know how to bet and keep the guy in. So, I just bet another $3. The last card is a 3, and the guy checks to me. I know I have him beat, but I dont know how to extract the maximum amount of money from him. So, I go all in and he folds. What should i have done? Another hand that I misplayed....I have pocket jacks,so I raise pre-flop. Got one caller (the same guy). The flop comes 10, 10, 10. He bets small to me, and I reraise him. He calls. The next two cards are low cards, no flush or straight draw. I know I do not have the best hand, but I know the other guy does not have anything better than me. He checks to me again, so I bet $5 and he calls with Ace high. Even though I won the hand, could I have took more money from this guy? I know he called my raise pre-flop because he was calling everything no matter what. Let me know what I can do in these situations. Thanks alot Mike | ||
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| Re: How to play this hand, psuasskicker, 17. Jul 2003 04:30 | ||
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| Your A7 hand was probably worth a slowplay, though you might not have gained much from it, cause that third seven is scary. The only way you get anything else out of the pot is if the guy bluffs at it. I'd check the turn, and strongly consider checking the river to see if the guy will take a shot at the pot. Last night at a NL $50 table at party I had KK and raised pre-flop to $12. Got one caller, and the flop was KK9. How can you play that hand? I checked and called his $8 bet on the flop, his $5 bet on the turn, and just hoped he'd take a shot at it at the end. You know he doesn't have a K, so if I bet into him, being that I'm the pre-flop raiser, chances are good he ducks out. He checked down the river. So I only got $13 out of my quads, but I consider that to be pretty solid. In your second hand example, you played it pretty conservatively which isn't a bad thing. I see people playing A10 all the time, so that's gotta be scary. Then you also have to worry about any overcards pairing anyone up. You've GOT to put someone on an Ace there, so if one falls, you must have the discipline to fold. In my experience, you usually don't want to try to bet too heavily there simply because you'll either be beaten, or they'll fold to you and either way you get nothing from it. The exception to that is if you're against a fish who will chase an Ace to the end. In that case, you've got to bet in increasing increments, and bet fairly strong. Something like $5 on the flop, $10 on the turn if the A doesn't hit, and another $15 or $20 on the end if the A doesn't hit. Make them pay for chasing the Ace. You can also lower the hammer on the turn. This allows a pot to be built that's worth winning, but if they decide to chase their Ace, they're a severe underdog. You will lose some of those hands, but you'll win them often enough that if you're against one of those fish, you'll be significantly profitable. - C - | ||
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| Re: How to play this hand, stdioh, 17. Jul 2003 08:58 | ||
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| With a hand like your quads, you want to put a lot of money in on the turn. Basically, you want him to draw to any drawing hands and give him a chance to catch his hand. You're not likely to get anything out of him on the river if he doesn't though. Thus I'll usually make a turn bet there of something like 1/3 of the pot. This should be enough to make some profit for you, build a pot that you can use as your weapon if he hits his hand, and not fold him off a draw. If you fold him with this bet, you probably wouldn't get him to call a smaller one anyway. Now when the river comes and he checks to you, you have to bet enough to make it worth your while and hope to get called or even better checkraised. Pushing all in though won't get you called unless he's on a monster, so you have to look at the river card and how it changes the board. If it brings a flush to the board or brings a straight or anything like that, make another bet the size you made on the turn and hope he plays back at you. If it is innocuous you're hoping that he's on some kind of weak made hand and will call you on a bigger bet, so maybe betting half the pot is a good idea. | ||
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