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Help with overpairs
I know holding an overpair at a ragged (or somewhat coordinated) board has been discussed a lot in this forum but I just want to share a problem that I have lately.
I am playing $25 $50 NL lately. Mostly 5 handed so theres lots of action, lots of preflop raising etc. I raise to 4BB EVERY hand that I play (suited connectors/suited aces etc.)usually in position and rarely cold call raises. Then I bet 3/4 on the flop and check/fold to any sigh of life if I havent hit.Its works great, I am always building my stack slowly even when I am not getting good flops and also setting up for a big payoff when I hit really good. Playing this really frustrutes mediocre/bad players, they never know what I hold and they want to play back at me. Problem is I dont know what they hold EITHER. I make my standard raise lets say with KK. then flops comes lets say 10 high with or without a flush draw. I bet the pot or sth and some one raises me (sometimes even moves all-in on me). I dont know what they have because THEY dont know what I have... I might have raised with 67s or AK or anything and they beat that on the flop. They might have 2 pair or a set. Or they might have TP and are just playing back at me cause I have won like so many pots uncontested so far and they are sick of it (this is how I make most of my mone anyway :P). I have no problem laying down AA/KK but many of the times I did I was shown TPTK or the guy won a showdown after I folded with TPTK. Reads are really important of course but sometimes times you have to put yourself in their shoes and figure out what does he THINK he beats and is moving in on you? What have you raised with/shown in the past (I like to show my good hands once in a while for that reason). Do you just call with AA/KK if its not OBVIOUS you are beat and hope for the best? I dont like to gamble that much...
Sorry for the long post, just thoughts running through my brain.
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