Give my pair and straight draw some love
 

Well we have a good hand, but how should we play it? Are you raising? Do you just flat call?

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Reads:
MP3 is a very loose and bad calling station.
SB is a new guy and no real reads because he has only been at the table for one or two orbits.
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Everest Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $2.00/$4.00 (HH Converter by Kreatief)

BB ($444.40) (Hero)
MP2 ($424.80)
MP3 ($411.10)
CO ($70.00)
Button ($383.70)
SB ($487.20)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
<font color="#666666">1 folds</font>, MP3 calls $4.00, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">SB raises to $16.00</font>, Hero calls $12.00, MP3 calls $12.00,

Flop: 5[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] ( $50 )
<font color="#CC3333">SB bets $48.00</font>, Hero comes up with a beautiful plan!

Re: Give my pair and straight draw some love
 

Raise the pot, call a shove.

Shove the turn if he just calls.

In these high equity, low implied odds situations, just get the money in.

Re: Give my pair and straight draw some love
 

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Raise the pot, call a shove.

Shove the turn if he just calls.

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Ya, it probably isn't tougher than that. The reason I was thinking about a call, was that I wanted the big fish in the pot as well... but a call gives him great odds if he has a flushdraw or whatever.

Re: Give my pair and straight draw some love
 

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The reason I was thinking about a call, was that I wanted the big fish in the pot as well

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That would be cool with the NFD, not when you have a hand with a ton of equity (pot and fold) but is terribly vulnerable to a ton of turns, and has crappy implied odds.

Re: Give my pair and straight draw some love
 

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In these high equity, low implied odds situations, just get the money in.

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yeah couldnt have said it better myself...pretty much spot on

Re: Give my pair and straight draw some love
 

jim nailed this imo