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Would anyone have played it different!
Blinds 300-600
Rough starting stacks at beginning of hand
Me - 18,000
Opponent 24,000
Dealt 9,10 of spades
Call
Raised from big blind to 1200 , and folded round to me and I call
Flop 7 hearts 7 clubs 8 spades
I check
He bets 1200
I call
Turn 2 diamonds and i Check, he bets 2000 I call, river J of clubs , I bet 2000 , he goes all in and I call. He has JJ #ouch
Comments
You want the Poker Clinic for strategy advice. Brags Beats and Variance is the place to post coolers.
Raised from the big blind then folded around to you? Usually the big blind closes the action pre-flop. Anyway, the river all-in on a paired board is going to be a full-house often. Many villains simply aren't capable of an-in river bluff here ever. I haven't worked out the size of the pot on the river, but I think a good player with a read could find a fold.
If the odds are irresistible it's a sigh-call. If they're not and it's a big shove from a tight player who's incapable of bluffing in this spot it's a comfortable fold.
(sarcasm = max)
Hi Geno, thanks for posting, good that people try and improve and think about poker rather than just moaning about bad beats.
First question would be why did you limp? I would say raising has three main advantages...you can win the pot then and there which is always good, you eliminate the blinds who may beat you with inferior hands or possibly they call and you get to play a hand that flops very well, in position, a very good thing to do...you define your hand. That is to say it's much easier to put your opponent on a range of hands when you have represented your hand. If you raise here and get re-raised by the big blind you can conclude that often he has an above average hand, if you limp and are raised by the big blind he may have a much worse hand than if you'd raised as he may feel you are weak because of the limp and he is trying to punish you. Later in the hand this may make all your decisions trickier...the other advantage is that you want to build a pot generally with these easy to play hands. You'll often flop a good draw but if you don't you can escape reasonably cheaply, that is why these hands are much better than say A7 where you might hit without ever knowing where you are.
After that raise I would call. I'm not going to do that too often with 12,000 or less chips but you have enough to call. The flop is not great, you are up and down but you could be dead already. You have a decent stack but you could go broke even if you hit. It's risky. Not sure how you checked, I think he bet and you called, unless you are in the small blind in this hand...knowing the position is massively important. Anyway, I would call, it's 1200 to win 3600+ that is in there so you are getting more than the 2/1 odds that you are to hit your straight and you have great implied odds...you get to double up if you get called after you hit. The downside is you might have "reverse implied odds" that is to say he only goes all-in with you when he has a house and you are dead.
I call on the turn. You are now just about 9/2 odds to hit your straight but you are getting about 3/1 pot odds and you still have implied odds. If I call twice to hit it now and it comes I'm getting my money in.
I hit. I'm calling. There is no way I could ever fold. It's unlucky. Have a word with yourself about the preflop though.
Probably fold the turn, it's a paired boad, we could be drawing dead/ even if we hit our 10 or J we may not be live.
Overall try and be aggressive (don't limp) - it's better to bet than to call.