4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: The Loser's Lounge
Posts: 2,322
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Hand #1: Raise preflop. As played c/f flop. Definately fold to the reraise after you took a stab at it. When the PFRr c/r the flop, you are smoked. Even if you hit your mircale 8, it completes a straight draw, one of them completes a flush draw, and with this guy's line he could have a better set already anyway.
Hand #2: Reraise preflop. As played fold. If you're trying to float, give up on the turn instead of putting that expensive move on him.
Hand #3: Fold to the reraise preflop. There's nothing you can hit post-flop that will make you want to play in a reraised pot except a flush, but you defiantely don't have the odds for it nor would anyone pay you off if you hit it.
Hand #4: I tend to raise 4xBB+1 for every limper. Especially at lower limits. C-bet is fine. But fold to that turn raise. He's not afraid of the ace, and he cold called you on a very dry flop. He is not playing like this with KQ. You're up against a set or AK.
Hand #5: Fine.
Hand #6: Fine.
Hand #7: Fine. And ty God for idiots like this.
Hand #8: Check behind on turn, you don't want him doing what he did. Plus your hand just gained some decent showdown value. I would play it the way you did on the turn with top pair. Don't know if that's a good idea or not though...
Hand #9: Fine. Sometimes I bet the turn again depending on the player. I would have paid him off if it weren't for that ace on the river.
Hand #10: Fine if you like blind wars. I take a more passive line sometimes too though. Player dependant.
Hand #11: I c-bet the flop then shut down if he wants to keep playing. As played, fold to the turn reraise, even if it is a min raise you are OOP and don't want to pay another bet on the river.
All in all. Like I said previously, don't pay off their better hands with your crap hands only to see another street and then fold. A lot of the time you were drawing to hands that had no implied odds or bad reverse implied odds.
Also, don't worry about people bluffing you unless you have a reason to. If they start getting carried away, then consider putting them to the test with more marginal holdings. But let a guy bet you off ace high. Who cares? Keep the pots small until you get a monster.
Don't be like this one guy I played this morning. We had never played against each other before. I opened on the button with QJs to a 4xBB raise. He called in the small blind. Hit nothing on the flop, he checked, I c-bet, he called. Nothing again on the turn. He checked, I c-bet and he folded. He asked what I had, I naturally said AA, he said he had AJ. I asked why he called the flop, he said "I thought you were bluffing." The guy has never played a hand with me and he assumed I was bluffing. And even if he was right that I was bluffing, what's calling the flop going to do about it? Especially if he just checks the turn.
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