im going to ask this but im not sure how its going to come out sounding. i know what i mean, but not really sure how to say it.
while its never good to go broke. if you think you have the best hand (say top pair) on the flop and get re raised by a person with abt half of your stack, is it worth making them put all of their chips in by reraising, since it seems like that is what it is going to come down to anyway?
for ex, i raised in mid pos with kq offsuit. i hit a q on the flop, bet and get raised by a caller right beside me. i should assume he has a pretty good hand as well right? i mean since he isnt really in late position. he made apretty big raise. i folded thinking that he would prob push his stack at somepoint. i was thinking he may have had kk or aa?
while its never good to go broke. if you think you have the best hand (say top pair) on the flop and get re raised by a person with abt half of your stack, is it worth making them put all of their chips in by reraising, since it seems like that is what it is going to come down to anyway?
for ex, i raised in mid pos with kq offsuit. i hit a q on the flop, bet and get raised by a caller right beside me. i should assume he has a pretty good hand as well right? i mean since he isnt really in late position. he made apretty big raise. i folded thinking that he would prob push his stack at somepoint. i was thinking he may have had kk or aa?
For some people that is their normal preflop raise. For people who normally open 2x or 2.5x, and they suddenly drop a 3x, it is almost always an indicator of strength (at this level).
You'll also run into people raising 4x and 5x. In my experience at that level, that usually means TT, JJ, or AK. Hands they don't want to play postflop out of position if the board gets tricky.
last hand got something to do.
aj off, mid pos, i raise to .3 and abt 5 people call. (i think this is what i want to see for a drawing hand?)
flop 4 10 10, check to me i bet .50 into a 1.20 something pot. it is raised to 1.00 everyone calls and i fold. should i have held on for one my card?
aj off, mid pos, i raise to .3 and abt 5 people call. (i think this is what i want to see for a drawing hand?)
flop 4 10 10, check to me i bet .50 into a 1.20 something pot. it is raised to 1.00 everyone calls and i fold. should i have held on for one my card?
Not bad. You need to make it about 90c to go preflop (3x his original bet). I think you said in a subsequent post that's actually what you did.
Checking back on the flop is not terrrrrrrible. I'm with Zit that you should have bet, but I'm advocating that bet more for value than protection. What you want to do is build a big pot, and you have to get bets in on all 3 streets in order to build the pot the way you want. You need to extract maximum value out of your premium hands.
Also, think bigger picture about balancing your range. If you are continuation betting with your air balls (which you should almost always be doing in a pot in which you 3 bet pre), you should usually continuation bet with monsters like this, to balance out your range (keep opponents guessing). Otherwise, if you fall into this pattern, they will realize that you bet with nothing and check when you have something, and they will start to become skeptical of your flop checks. I realize you're trying to be tricky, but sometimes straightforward is best.
The only reason I'm somewhat OK checking the flop is that you represent weakness, and an unsophisticated opponent will immediately think you missed the flop, and go into aggro mode.
Given that you checked the flop, I like just calling the turn.
After he bet the turn AND river, I would definitely make the raise bigger on the river. After his .94 bet there was over $4 in the pot, and you only raised a dollar. If he has a king, he will call a bigger raise there - and there is an indication he does have one based on his firing two bullets. I would have made it 2.75 or something.
Nice hand!!
