Top pair short-handed live - Page 2

viciouspenguin · #1 02-13-2007, 06:34 PM

IMO this is a really easy call in online games. from my limited experience in live games, i just fold

cts · #2 02-13-2007, 06:41 PM

Live players are loose passive donkeys I just keep betting.

FloydTheWall · #3 02-13-2007, 07:41 PM

lol @ people saying fold, you must be the tightest nits on the planet.

haakee · #4 02-14-2007, 03:14 PM

I wrote what I believed his range might be in my previous post. Raising only seemed reasonable to charge a diamond draw. Given my position + the significant possibility that I was up against a worse hand (draw or KJ/QJ/J9s) I decided to call the turn making the pot $1090.

The river was a small diamond completing the flush draw. He thought for a short time and then mad a small bet of $400. Now what? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

lapoker17 · #5 02-14-2007, 04:33 PM

push.

haakee · #6 02-15-2007, 01:05 AM

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Why? I don't think he'd fold any flush here. It would put him to a tough decision w/a set though.

lapoker17 · #7 02-15-2007, 01:25 AM

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Why? I don't think he'd fold any flush here. It would put him to a tough decision w/a set though.

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heh - you can't play the hand the way you did, and then now decide he was definitely on a flush draw. since it's live poker, he's not calling without a flush unless you have been a lagtard leading up. so, yeah, we can get him to fold better here quite often.

btw, his bet size is one of the main reasons i say push. it looks like a blocker. also, live, you really should be able to tell if he's weak.

spino1i · #8 02-15-2007, 02:36 AM

Which regular grinder is it?

I feel like this is a made hand like 95% of the time. That makes raising probably a bad play. With your aggressive bully image I might be inclined to call and re-eval river. Unless its that Montana Jack old guy.

haakee · #9 02-16-2007, 01:25 PM

I thought for a bit on the river, decided to call his small bet and was shown the nuts: A [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 8 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]

Noose · #10 02-16-2007, 01:49 PM

You played the hand fine. No real need for raising the turn as he's very often gonna show up here with a tpgk. He played it like [censored] though - as he should've tried to get em in as quickly as possible.