4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 1,524
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What's the difference between 22 and 99? You are playing for a set regardless, so small PP shouldn't have any more weight than a mid PP except for the possibility of your hand getting conterfeited which is very small. The raiser has overcards to every PP in that range.
What do you do when you have a nice high PP or AK and somebody just called your $1-$2 preflop bet and the flop comes out rags? You play aggressively. If there is $5 in the pot and it's your turn to bet, how much do you throw out? Probably pot or higher since you missed improving and don't want them to improve or possibly draw cheap. Now you have around $7 in the pot of your own money. If the guy that just hit trips calls, then what are you doing on the turn? Backing off? No, you have to bet to find out if you are really behind. More money into the pot. Hey look what we have here, you just hit two pair on the river. By that point, the trips paid for themselves and then some.
It seems to happen that way often. If you hit trips, you should be able to extract enough money to make it worthwhile - especially if you have position. Plus, this is 25NL.
When I get home, I'm going through same hand histories where I call over 4BB with a PP lower than TT. Maybe I'm talking out my @ss. Wouldn't be the first time.
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