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 Should you ever stop raising with this hand?, mkpoker, 18. Oct 2003 19:06 | ||
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| Like most SoCal cardrooms, Hollywood Park has a 4-bet limit (cap), but it's lifted when the action gets to heads up. So playing today, I followed four limpers by limping from the SB with 89o. The flop was 7TJ rainbow, giving me the nut str8. I bet out...sure to get action from anyone with a good pair. Also, I didn't want to risk free cards, because the TJ combination presented a higher str8 risk. The pot was raised by the BB and got 2 callers. I reraise, the BB caps, and the only remaining players fold. Now that we're heads up, I raise again (a 5-bet) and the BB reraises (6-bet). I reraise again, and the BB just called. Exceeding the cap on the flop got me thinking...I would have raised in this situation until I had no chips left! The ONLY hand BB could have that was better than mine was 89s, which would have give him a backdoor flush draw I didn't have. Re-raising until all the chips are gone would have been the right play, yes? Also (if anyone has been in this situation before), at what point to you turn to your opponent and say "I'll push all in if you will, rather than parcelling out our stacks in $4 increments? (this was 4/8 HE). And BTW, as could have been predicted, he also had 89o and we split the pot. | ||
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| Re: Should you ever stop raising with this hand?, Angel, 18. Oct 2003 20:24 | ||
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| on 18. Oct 2003 19:06 mkpoker wrote: The ONLY hand BB could have that was > better than mine was 89s, It depends on your opponent mk. Because while the ONLY hand the BB could have had that was better than yours was 89s - if you were heads up against me and I went to 4-bets - 89s would be the ONLY hand I would have and you could take that to the bank. I'll get a little froggy with a check re-raise semi-bluff or some other such tricky move occasionally which might get 3-bet's in - but anything beyond that I have the best of it. If you were up against an opponent like that - I'd stop and see if the turn completed the rainbow before I put all my chips in. You never want to go all-in (if you have alot of chips) against a player with a non-existant or small (or worse) edge IF that same player will routinely give you the best of it all night long - take it in pieces. | ||
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