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Join Date: Jul 2005
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Forgot to address the title of your post which is whether you should have called for set value.
Your chance of flopping a set when you have a pocket pair is about 7.5 to 1 against, so if that's all you're considering, then provided the chips you can win (those in the pot already plus the remaining stack of your opp) are at least 7.5 times the chips you need to call, you have proper odds to play for set value.
However, there are a couple of other considerations:
- Your opp may not stack off every time you do hit a set.
- You may flop a set but your opp might have a better hand on the flop or outdraw you on the turn or river.
Taking these into account, generally you need to be able to win 10-20x the chips you need to call to have proper implied odds to call a raise for set value. In this case you need to call 720 to win like 4000 which is not even the 7.5 to 1 chance that you need to hit a set.
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