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3/6 live at Potawatomie Casino Milwaukee on Sunday afternoon. Table is the usual LP preflop with a couple of older gentlemen who never seem to raise preflop, and a couple of LAGGY types in the 7 and 8 seats who raised about 90% of the hands they played preflop (including mid-range suited connectors and A6 suited.)
I am in the 4 seat with A [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] Q [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]. 4 limpers to me on the button, and I raise. Both blinds and all limpers call. [14 sb] K [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] 10 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] 5 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] Five players check to the CO who bets. What do you do? |
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I call.
If you raise you incrase the chances of you winning when a A/Q hits but in this situation I'd rather let people in and hopefully win a larger pot if you make a big hand. I play it this way because even though the pot is big I fear that even if you knock some guys out that hitting your A/Q will often just make you a 2nd best hand. If I thought it was more likely that pairing would give you a winner then I'd say raise. |
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we have the opportunity to face the field with 2 cold; I'd take it and raise. we can sometimes make better hands fold (tens, mid pairs) and we may have the option of a free card. the subsequent action will also often tell us a lot about whether we're against a made flush or nut draw. the pot's big, let's be aggressive with position.
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I call. If you raise you incrase the chances of you winning when a A/Q hits but in this situation I'd rather let people in and hopefully win a larger pot if you make a big hand. I play it this way because even though the pot is big I fear that even if you knock some guys out that hitting your A/Q will often just make you a 2nd best hand. If I thought it was more likely that pairing would give you a winner then I'd say raise. [/ QUOTE ] I like this. I think that we are better off preserving our implied odds. |
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I guess not as straight forward as I thought...
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I guess not as straight forward as I thought... [/ QUOTE ] There are positives and negatives to calling and raising. In the end if you play well post flop I like them both equally, I determine how I will play based on the opponents who are yet to act, and the player to my right (who almost never has a flush here at these limits). I will think abbout the opponent to my right's likelyhood of calling down or betting the river lightly. If I call the flop, my intention is to raise the turn - but that may not be wise vs a large field in players call behind me. So many variables, i really think nobody can answer this question except for yourself - as long as your plan isn't to call the flop, call the turn, fold the river unimproved heads up I'll probably like it. |
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I did raise the flop, hoping for a free card on the turn (for which I figured I had about a 95% chance given this field, especially in light of the preflop raise and the K on board) and for whatever protection it might provide.
The rest of the hand was fairly straight forward as I got one or two cold callers plus the original opener on my right called. A red A hit the turn, giving my TPTK. It was checked to me, I bet, one or two callers. A blank hit the river and I got one caller for my river value bet. MHIG without the caller showing his hand. I posted because a couple of the middle to late position players (seats 1 and 2) were muttering about a "strange raise." I didn’t think that the raise was that strange given draws that I had and the ability to take a free card, if needed. |
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With the gutter and the 2nd-nut flush draw (though it's only one card), I like a raise here.
With a pot this big players will call two. I'm not sure which outcome is better, but I don't think we are really bothered if people call or if they fold. Plus, since I have such a super-tight image (for the game I play in) raising on the come pays dividends even if I don't win the hand. |
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when you raise with a draw, some morons just don't get why.
as played, fine. |
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