most important decisions are made on what street?

[Acemanhattan]

sorry for the random questions all the time, but they pop into my mind so i just write em down on paper then post a few of em. What spots do the best players make the best decisions? I know the answer would be on every street, but at what point are the "key" decisions made in the hand? Flop i imagine hand selection is key, and on the flop assessing on how or wether the hand is worth continuing with, but are these the most important spots? I find that when i get to the river if i have to make a big decision i prob made bad ones on the way there, so i am prob fuked anyways.

[The Man]

flop

[jogsxyz]

The street in front of the casino. There you can choose to not enter.

[Howard Beale]

In limit I'd go w/ on the flop as the answer but from your remark about making a big decision on the river I'm guessing you're talking about NL which I don't play. However (mostly because I want to generate a discussion and learn something), I'm going to toss out a guess and say that in NL the biggest decision should be on the turn.

[PJo336]

Id say the flop is in NL. Post flop play is something alot of weak players dont pay attention to, and the decision you make on the flop will lead to the decisions you face on later streets. Flop bets and raises start building the pot, and can usually lead to a neccessary commitment by the turn and the river.

[Bang584]

For NLHE...

It really depends on the stack sizes. With short stacks, only preflop matters. As stacks get deeper, future rounds become more important.

[Acemanhattan]

would you consider 100bb stacks short stacks? sometimes feels ;like it.

[PantsOnFire]

Hardest decisions are at the end of Lonely Street.

I will address deepstack NL. I think preflop is probably the easist street followed by the flop (although the flop decision is much more important than preflop).

I figure the most difficult street is the turn. The bets and raises are generally much larger on this street than the flop so a bad decision can be very costly. As well, you are in a pot with a player(s) who were happy to continue with their hand past the flop so you have a lot to think about. This is the street where you really need to figure out where you are.

[jiacstrap]

turn

[sethypooh21]

[ QUOTE ]
turn

[/ QUOTE ]In limit, definitely the turn.