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Re: Is this a \"bad beat\" or just poor playing ?
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I can't understand why he chose to raise and call a reraise with A3 [/ QUOTE ] 1. He sucks. 2. Minraise. |
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Re: Is this a \"bad beat\" or just poor playing ?
Do you mean he saw a minraise in front and thought hero was trying it on?
He must have put Hero on a range which included an A where the kicker would have beaten 3. After the flop he beats to see where he is and gets called. I would have thought Hero had an A and probably better kicker and he still calls the reraise on the turn. All in all SB play was very bad and got very lucky (I think, but believe me I am no expert as my pokeroffice results prove [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]) |
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Re: Is this a \"bad beat\" or just poor playing ?
What are you trying to accomplish with the min-raising? You should analyze your plays and make sure there's a reason for everything you do.
Flop, I would fold for a pot sized bet. If he min-reraised, there's a good chance he's super strong, and otherwise there's a strong chance he has either a pocket pair or an Ace, which leaves you way behind. |
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Re: Is this a \"bad beat\" or just poor playing ?
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What are you trying to accomplish with the min-raising? You should analyze your plays and make sure there's a reason for everything you do. [/ QUOTE ] Well, as I've only been (attempting to) play poker for a week, now while reading up on it at the same, time, I'm not quite ..ahem .. up to speed on the nuances of raising .... heck I'm not even out of neutral yet [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] I'm still just getting up to speed with reading the board [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] With 66, should I even be raising? ... or even playing the hand for that matter? I've read different things some saying don't ever raise pre-flop unless you have AA, KK, AK, other things I've read have suggested if you're going to get into a pot, start with a raise to knock out anybody with marginal hands. My "reasons" at the moment are a mixture of testing things that I've been reading, and a lot of guessing-hunches [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] That's why I've been only playing freerolls, though I might start trying the penny-stakes stuff ... after a few more thousand practice / freeroll hands [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Mike |
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Re: Is this a \"bad beat\" or just poor playing ?
Hey man, I want to say your honest attitude is perfect for becoming a winning player and that's great. There's some great strategy advice here already but I'm going to clutter up your thread anyways.
[ QUOTE ] With 66, should I even be raising? ... or even playing the hand for that matter? [/ QUOTE ] 9-handed game, you are in worst position with 8 people to act behind you, 66 is simply not strong enough to open-raise. In this spot, I would open-raise JJ or better pairs, and AQs or better Aces. The raise would be about 3x the big blind, because min-raising only encourages people to come in with speculative hands to win a big pot. As long as the table is not super-aggressive (lots of raising) pre-flop, a limp is good, because you are risking 60 chips to try and flop a set and win a large pot with minimal chip risk. [ QUOTE ] I've read different things some saying don't ever raise pre-flop unless you have AA, KK, AK, other things I've read have suggested if you're going to get into a pot, start with a raise to knock out anybody with marginal hands. My "reasons" at the moment are a mixture of testing things that I've been reading, and a lot of guessing-hunches [/ QUOTE ] Great stuff, you just gotta try everything and see what works. As far as the raising only AA/KK/AK and such, everything in poker is so situational ie. number of players at the table, your position, looseness of the game, level of the tournament, etc. [ QUOTE ] That's why I've been only playing freerolls, though I might start trying the penny-stakes stuff ... after a few more thousand practice / freeroll hands [/ QUOTE ] Best of luck dude, you gotta try it all and see what you like best |
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