Blakesta

So I've been lurking around here reading some topics and I'm a fairly new beginer poker player. I play a lot of live tourneys, hardly at all online. I like to play some 4-8 games at my local card room sometimes, win some lose some. But on the topic of pot odds, I read somebody somewhere saying that if you hold a pair preflop, you are about 7.5-1 against flopping a set.Mathmatically that doesn't make sense to me, and I think I'm misunderstanding pot odds.Look, there's only 2 cards in the entire deck that can help you. Theres 50 unseen cards before the flop. Wouldn't the odds of you floppin

I'm not sure I'm willing to risk all of my chips preflop with a pair of 10's. Is it worth a coin flip when I have no money in the pot at that point, to get beat by 2 overcards? I don't think it is. Unless I'm short stacked, or trouble stacked, I'm looking to see a flop and then decide if my 10's are good. If its a flop of 3 undercards, then I might move all in. If I flop a set I might move all in. Otherwise I'll be really catious. In this case, I was right in that I had the best hand. How many outs did I have for the board to pair? I had the lead and almost as many outs as he did to ma

It was a live tourney not online just fyi.

I bolded a sentence that I thought was a really good quote as it applies to this situation. Good feedback I do know what you mean. At the risk of having someone suck out on you that wouldv'e folded an all in. But if the turn is not a diamond, then I bet he doesn't call. And if it is, then I can get out without losing my stack. Nice thought process. And thanks for the welcome.

Hello folks. This is my first post here at this forum so let me see if I can give it a wack. I got a question on strategy.Blinds are 100-200 in a live NL-tournament. I've got about 3200. Pocket tens in the small blind. One limper, one raiser who bumped to 400. Got to me I raised to 1400. Flop comes 10,6,3 's. I flop a set. But 3 diamonds. I was in a jam. Only one other guy in the pot, and he's got me covered but not by much. So I go all in. He calls. I show my 10's he shows AJ off with the A . He caught his one diamond for nut flush I end with 3 10's and bust out of the to