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Old 10-05-2007, 10:38 AM
Nsight7 Nsight7 is offline
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Default Re: Is it ever possible to avoid getting busted by sets?

For c) you simply re-raise. He gets lucky and hits a set here, but often enough you will have a guy sitting with KJo or something like that. Everything else goes out the window for the other two, and honestly I am only moderately good at sorting those situations. In particular I see a lot of smooth-call preflop, smooth-call flop, re-raise turn type plays from standard set-whores. Somebody with KK or QQ (or even AK, JJ) is probably going to re-raise preflop so you can probably toss those out of your read, and you are left with either semi-bluff and/or set, probably on the T or the 3. At any rate, you kinda have to understand your opponents tendencies at this point, so making this call is VERY read dependant.

Remember, AA is only an overpair. If you can't manage to bloat the pot pre-flop, or get heads-up with an obvious donk, you probably want to practice some pot-size control and not get over committed. Given these considerations, with calling and betting out the turn, you can probably put your opponent on a set if he bets out big on the river. If you are in position, your turn bet acts as a nice little blocking bet as a set-whore may think you will bet out again and thus let the action fall to you, in which case you can check and collect your winnings or wallow in self pity at losing to pocket 2's.
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