Originally Posted by arkana

Hmm very interesting, this is quite an eye opener for me. Im still in the frame of mind of betting when you are ahead. Especially with a weak hand like that. Im not saying raise all in on the flop, just raise enough so that he will fold if he missed. I suppose just calling will make him wary of betting every flop and how he plays the turn might tell you if you are ahead or not. Still I think just calling the flop and the turn is quite risky. Does the skill level of your opponent influence this?

Originally Posted by Symbolic

Remember this, in heads up when you lose a single chip...you aren't going down by 1, you are going down by 2. Instead of winning a 100 pot, you lose a 100 pot, making the swing 200.

Originally Posted by Symbolic

I've gotta agree w/ Arkana on this one...the fact that you are out of position is the exact reason why you do a raise here. If he calls you know he probably has T/7. If he has a 2 he's going to fold it to a re-raise.

Originally Posted by michael1123

To make a meaningful raise on the flop, you're going to have to raise to around 200 (3x his flop bet). That's risking 200 of your stack to attempt to win a pot that is 80 chips at that moment. You also don't win anything more if he has the worst hand and folds it here, although that is much better than the alternative of him calling (even with a worse hand), because you're now stuck in a very bad position on future streets.

Originally Posted by arkana

Yes, but in this case Fnord was willing to call another 80 on the turn and probably another x amount if Sykedupp bet the river.
His flop and turn calls already add up to 140 and he would have probably called 60-100 on the river