Straight Flush
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: St. Louis, MO
Posts: 4,255
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good equation. i havent seen it before. i am not the most "mathematical" of poker players by a long shot. i play a little more by what i've read and how i see it applying to what i am trying to accomplish.
i dont calculate much when i decide to raise a draw....certainly not like that.
i only look for a couple of conditions:
- do i have any chance to win it all now?
- have i been aggressive lately, and is there any chance raising here will throw villains off.....make my future hands more difficult to read?
- am i HU? because of the first condition, i almost always raise draws HU.
- will i benefit from a bloated pot?
- do i have the most equity in the pot at this point?
to me, that generally gives me a "yes" to raise my draws.....so long as i dont knock others out in bigger, multiway pots (relative position).
i will just call along sometimes, but that is also to balance other weaker draws where i may just come along with proper odds, such as bottom pair + gutters or naked overcard draws.
i dont know that either way is better. but, i default to raising most of the time because i believe we benefit from playing as big a pot as we can against the poorer competition.....even if it means i am allowing them to play their hands correctly in the process. i feel i win more than my fair share of big pots, and more than half the time i am the one making it big. that has to be a big advantage for me........and, the reason i suffer from some wicked variance down here sometimes....lol.
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