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a monster hand wasted
| SunnyD346 | Small blind | £0.02 | £0.02 | £2.16 | |
| x | Big blind | £0.04 | £0.06 | £6.52 | |
| Your hole cards |
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| snaptilt | Fold | ||||
| craigcu12 | Call | £0.04 | £0.10 | £4.17 | |
| genlee | Fold | ||||
| SunnyD346 | Fold | ||||
| x | Check | ||||
| Flop | |||||
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| x | Check | ||||
| craigcu12 | Bet | £0.05 | £0.15 | £4.12 | |
| x | Fold | ||||
Comments
my main betting is 20p but for hands such as this it's a big risk doing 20p bets because from the post flop if i miss my set i struggle to know what to do frop then on as these table are hard for me to Cbet
Don't limp in pre-flop. If you win the blinds don't think "Darn it! I only won the blinds" think instead "Yay! I won the blinds!!"
If we are 3-bet, it's easy to judge our opponent's 3-betting range and our implied odds for set-mining. Against a tight 3-better, we can set mine with implied odds as low as 10;1. Against a loose 3-better we need odds of perhaps 20:1 to set-mine profitably. Against those loose players, we can think about 4-betting as a bluff.
If we go heads-up to the flop with the betting lead and miss our set, we can c-bet almost any flop unless it smashes our opponent's calling range. If we get action, then we can give up for a negligible loss. If we hit the set we bet for value.
If we go multi-way and miss our set, we don't c-bet beause it's unlikely to get through. We just give up and it costs us very little. If we hit our set, we bet for value and we're very likely to find a customer multi-way.
Playing small pocket pairs only gets tricky when we regularly make big bets but still want to balance our range. This makes our c-bets more expensive when we're bluffing and makes it tougher to play through the streets with marginal hands.