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Old 11-07-2007, 05:26 PM
Xylocain Xylocain is offline
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Default Re: Top pair no kicker

I made that post, because I kind of rock at flinging tons of bets into these situations, but I havent really figured out how to extract maximum when ahead while losing minimum when behind here ... so I'll expand fell free to berate.

Raising the flop puts 3 SB in, but likely will fold worse hands with no draws on the turn because the LAG betting and a LP TAG raising is a pretty strong message on a dry board. If we call, then people can call the SB with a much wider range since he is likely FOS. (SB betting +1 caller == 4 SB witch is still less than 3SB + 4SB ... but in that case we are also up against much more defined hands)

My thinking is that this is the opposite situation of flopping a set. With a set, we typically play agressivly regardless if we think people will fold because we want to give ourselfs the chance to get action. With this hand, we dont really want action because it cant stand any (short of going to showdown vs SB), but it can take a lot of callers.

Not sure if I make sense.
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