4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Rochester Hills, MI
Posts: 1,720
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I think preflop is where you let him in. Could've given a nice reraise, and probably knocked him out of the hand. After that, he made a bad call to your reraise on the flop (obviously a pair of 4s was not good there), and got lucky on the turn. You couldn't really put him on a 4, with his preflop raise and call on the flop, so there's definitely no fault to your bet on the turn, and call to his raise after being pot committed.
When I have a big stack, I apply a lot of pressure preflop, especially when I get a big hand. He may have called anyway, but at least you'd have had a chance to take it down right there. Also, if you did make a big preflop raise and he called, the size of the pot would be a lot bigger so on the flop when you hit the K, I would've then put him all in right there. Once again, he may still make a crazy call, but you'd have to feel afterwards that you played it right, and did all you could to prevent chasing, and he just got lucky.
So, in answer to your 2nd question, I think you actually played too conservatively, preflop at least. As the big stack, I'm very aggressive preflop, and in terms of betting myself. I don't think that's where a big stack needs to play more conservatively. Where I'm really conservative is when the small stack raises me big or goes all in. Usually then, if I don't have a great hand, I'll give it to them there. Since a small stack, especially against an aggressive big stack, is always looking for that one phenominal hand to double up against the big stack.
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