Re: Help on this hand, please.
Every once in a while, I'll venture over to one of the small-stakes hold'em forums, where a lot of posts read something like this:
I lost a hand!!! When should I have folded???
Sometimes, you just have to lose a hand.
On the river, it looks like you're up against a couple of weakish high hands, or at least a couple of guys who don't have very much. You simply have to bet. Once in a while, you'll con both of them into folding, and you'll scoop the pot. This is a major coup. Most of the time, however, you're looking for two calls. One of the other guys will take the high half of the pot, and you'll chop up the third man, and you don't much care who's who. Having this guy check-raise the third man off of his hand is unexpected, but them's the breaks. Both of your opponents had face cards in the door. I wouldn't expcet either of them to have a low. I'm not especially surprised that one did, but again, them's the breaks. Really, you played it fine, and things didn't work out. It's an occupational hazard.
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