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Old 07-15-2005, 12:42 PM
fnurt fnurt is offline
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Default Re: To the \"donkey\" critics, turn the hand around

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An aggressive player with a shorter stack makes a 100k raise into a 140K pot. You have QJs and position and around 2 million in chips. Do you call?

Flop come small, one heart and you have two overs. Aggressive player in front bets 150K into a 340K pot. He could have a big pair, a small pair, two overs, two high cards, could be dominating you, you could be dominating him.... and you're getting getting over 3:1.

What do you do?

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This is the correct way to look at it. This seems like a raise or fold situation.

Taking a card off with the hope of making a move on the turn seems suboptimal, BUT there are situations were it would be correct, depending on your history against the other player. If your prior hands have followed a similar pattern, then making an atypical move may be the best way.

Taking a card off with the hope of hitting something on the turn, which is more likely what he had in mind, is a concept I just don't like. You have 6 outs, plus 10 hearts that give you a flush draw with 1 card to go. Making top pair, though, most likely gets you into a "pick up the pot or lose all your money" situation, not really where you want to be. If the best you can hope for is to catch a heart so you can semibluff, bleh.

The call before the flop seems pretty unremarkable to me. It's not as though Greg needs a premium hand to open-raise and there's a lot of poker left in the hand.
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