most important decisions are made on what street?

[Noo Yawk]

Limit: pre-flop

No-limit: Flop

Pot-limit: Turn

[sethypooh21]

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turn

[/ QUOTE ]In limit, definitely the turn.

[/ QUOTE ]S/b preflop, but I had confused "important" with "difficult" - in limit you very rarely have a *difficult* preflop decision, but they are of course important.

[kak1154]

For NL, I'm going to go with the turn. The flop is often a fit or fold situation when faced with a bet, or a c-bet situation when you are the PFR.

But, so many people will call your c-bet with nothing (or the nuts) or make a c-bet with nothing (or the nuts). Then you have to decide what to do on the turn. Like the other poster said, the bets are often much higher. If you call or make a sizable turn bet or raise, you have pretty much decided your status in the hand. Often, this is where you have to put your opponent on a hand as well. Do you bet strong with top pair because he has a draw, or a little less because he has a weak kicker or second pair?

As for the river, if you have defined his hand, you know what cards you don't want to see, and act accordingly. If you are drawing, you see if your draw hits, and act accordingly.

Of course, these are generalizations, but you get the idea. For reference, I'm speaking from a perspective of $50NL & $100NL online, and 1-2NL & some 2-5NL live. At higher limits, I think there is an increase in difficult flop decisions, but I'd still say the turn is toughest.

[sh58]

i'd probably say the flop, because on the flop you usually make some decision about how you are going to play the hand on the later streets, for example, you might call a flop, intending to fold to a strong bet on the turn. or you might c/c the flop with the intention of c/r the turn and pushing the river. the Turn and river should therfore often be sorted before you get there.

note: preflop is the most important for tournaments, and the least important for cash games