4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Originally Posted by SmackinYaUp
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Originally Posted by Rondavu
More often than not, when you get into the "induction" frame of mind it burns you. The reason for this is when you induce people to bet, you are denying yourself information. (Who knows if their big bet is exploiting your false weakness or betting a true monster?) If you can get past being predictable, you'll find yourself with better reads, and a more cunning ability to escape bad situations.
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Could you please explain this more? The way I play gets me a lot of action and it makes it difficult to sometimes put people on hands because so many people are now willing to push with top pair jack kicker that I get into many sticky situations. |
Here's an example...
You get QQ. You raise it preflop and get a caller. He's holding 66. The flop comes out (8c 6s Jd). You check, and 66 guy bets 1/2 pot. You call thinking he has a J. The turn comes (Tc) and you check again. He bets huge, and you reraise him all in thinking he's trying to exploit your weakness.
Now if you had bet out the flop 1/2 pot, he would have called or maybe even done you a favor by re-raising huge or going all in. Then you could lay down your QQ after recieving good information. The least that would have happened, is he would have raised you all in after you bet the turn when he saw the board straightening. That's good information you miss out on when you try to induce bets.
In this scenerio, I'm happy with a small pot when the flop doesn't hit him.
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