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Hotfrog
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02-15-2008, 11:40 PM
Post subject: Villains Stack
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So i think my game id coming along albeit very slowly. Im a VERY small winning player but am more concentrated on learning the game rather than seeing huge numbers at the moment, which brings me to my question. Im getting the hang of a lot of the intricasies but one is still confusing me a little. Villian Stack size!.
I know i should take this into consideration at all times but when/how do i use this infomation when deciding to make a play?. Ive read on a few threads threads where peaple have mentioned that the size of the villians stack influenced a certain way that they played the hand. This is something that i think i really need to get a grasp of to keep moving ahead.
Any and all help in this area would be greatly apprecited.
Cheers!
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Pretty broad. Do you play tournies or cash games? Makes a big difference, so we might start there.
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Robb
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02-15-2008, 11:58 PM
Post subject: Re: Villains Stack
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Originally Posted by Hotfrog
So i think my game id coming along albeit very slowly. Im a VERY small winning player but am more concentrated on learning the game rather than seeing huge numbers at the moment, which brings me to my question. Im getting the hang of a lot of the intricasies but one is still confusing me a little. Villian Stack size!.
I know i should take this into consideration at all times but when/how do i use this infomation when deciding to make a play?. Ive read on a few threads threads where peaple have mentioned that the size of the villians stack influenced a certain way that they played the hand. This is something that i think i really need to get a grasp of to keep moving ahead.
Any and all help in this area would be greatly apprecited.
Cheers!
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One obvious situation is when I get rr'd preflop. Example: NL10 FR. I'm holding a pair of twos on the button and raise up my standard $0.35 raise after it folds around to me. The Small Blind rr's to $1.20. I check his stack. He's got $4.00 left, so I fold.
And if the rr was to $1.00, and if we both had $12.50 in our stacks when the action started, I would probably call as long as the villain was a TAGG likely to stack of with TPTK.
Why the difference? Well, I'm a coin flip with AK and way behind AA, KK and QQ and anything else he might rr with. So I need to catch a 2 on the flop. My set hits the flop about one time in seven, so I need implied odds of at least 10 to 1 to call the bet. (10 to 1, not 7 to 1, because I don't always win when I hit my set and villains doesn't always stack off like we'd like him to.)
In the first hand, I only am getting a bit more than 4 to 1 odds, no where near enough to call with a hand that's (at best) a coin flip to win.
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