JamesWinfro

I would like to comment on a different part of this play, besides the check-raise on the turn. I do not like you raising in the small blind with strictly a drawing hand (that isn't suited) against five players. If I was up against three or less opponents I will raise with that hand without a doubt. The limp reraise is often a baffling play. Your opponent either has a premium hand, is raising you because you raised him, or he is trying to isolate with a small pair or an ace (sometimes this will occur but not to often). What do you think the big blind has, he is raising into a field that ha

I agree with you Wonderfulsplash that most of the time it is AK, AQ, etc. I just must have not made it clear enough, because I was short on my explaination. I said that most of the time it is an overpair if the opponent is solid. If you previously have seen your opponent call down with overcards, then yeah you can definitely put your opponent on that hand for most of the time. However, if your opponent is solid and is capable of folding overcards and will call down with an overpair or medium pair than yes you have to put him on a hand.

Here is my take on this situation. I think your opponent has an overpair and you scared him into thinking you have a stronger hand by check-raising on the flop. That's not how I would play an overpair though, but I have seen this happen to me a lot of the time, if your opponent is solid and is capable of folding two overcards. The check-raise is too strong and his call may mean he has your pair beat. That's just my take on the situation.-JW-

How many hands have you played at 3/6 and at 15/30? Just curious to see how big of a sample your BB/100 rate is?

I also hate reading posts where people say "fold, fold, fold, etc." and they never give an actual explanation as to why you should fold. The first thing that I will have to mention about this situation is it is opponent dependent. That's probably why the previous poster said that he would fold this hand 10 percent of the time, but I don't think a percentage is what you need to hear and I'm not completely sure that percentage is accurate. I do agree that the river all in is a little suspicious, simply because most players will project their hand strength on the turn rather than the river.

From what I have read your aggression factor should be somewhere between 2 and 3. Yours is not, which either means you are calling to much when you should be raising, and in most of the cases folding. So don't turn those calls into raises, but rather some of those calls into folds. Like it was previously mentioned you probably are playing your overcards/overpairs to hard post flop when you don't hold the best hand. This often happens when people raise preflop with ace king and then feel obligated to raise on the flop with it even if they do miss it. Another thing is you may want to call a

I think the limp in from the button was the correct move. I would not want to pre-flop raise because this hand is mediocre and two opponents have already entered the pot and could hold a hand like ATs, TT, JJ, 88, 89s, or AJo. All which would beat you now and on the flop and would be hands to limp in with in early position. I would like to say that it is not definite that this is a 2 pair versus a set situation. This could very well be two pair versus two pair or overpair or a set. It is a hand that you know you are beat though and the fold on the turn was correct. Also even though you h

I was going to reply but akishore said a lot of thing that you will need to think about. In these situations with a straight and flush draw on board you have to be careful when opponents are cold-calling and when the first person to act comes out betting and then three-bets to a raise, you have to put him on a good hand. Three-betting was a bad play, and just calling was the right move. You are only on a draw because the jacks are really no good. Your opponents most likely have an Ace and is trying to protect his hand in the BB and the other opponents could be on a draw with their cold cal

You are most likely beat on the flop by a pair of tens and you should be playing your hand as a draw to three of a kind and a backdoor straight. You are about Your pot odds should be better than 11 to 1 or 12 to 1 to even consider calling a bet in this position. You should not have raised the flop because your opponent was raising into a field of eight people acting behind him. Unless this person is willing to bluff into eight people when acting first I would put him on a ten or even two pair because he is coming in from the blinds. You should have folded on the flop, especially after the

Short Handed (6 max table), when you are UTG you have two options, raise or fold. That is definitely something everyone agreed upon about this topic. QJo is a poor hand to come in with a raise UTG and should normally be folded. As for your play on the flop I would have capped the pot and lead out on the turn, if your are raised you dump the hand, if called you are most likely ahead or can check-call the river. The problem with this hand is making the UTG raise with QJo. I find that when you check-raise someone online they will often raise you back simply because you check-raised them.

1. What is the size of the pot? Right now it is 4.50.2. Figure out your odds of improving to the BEST hand? For your ace or king htting on the turn I would basically give you 1.5 outs per card given that you are up against 3 opponents. Thus you are 15 to 1 against improving on the turn. For the backdoor flush you are about 25 to 1 against improving by the river. For your gut-shot straight draw you are 15 to 1 against improving by the turn. So your total odds are about 5 to 1.3. What are your pot odds? Your pot odds are 9 to 1. However, you must take into consideration the possibilit

With Ax you should basically steal and defend with this hand, when the ace is lower than an eight.

Tabulus the rule is if you are first to act and you are going to enter the pot first in than you have to options raise or fold. Calling is not even a consideration. In short-handed games you will be playing big cards for most of the time and you want to be up against a limited field, one or two. If you raise when someone else has entered you will have the person who just called prior to you and the people who will call with so much money in the pot after you. If you're really green at short-handed play than why give any advice. I will raise with 77 or 88 first in. I don't like to raise w

First take into consideration what hands your opponent might call with in a low limit game with a preflop raise that has you beat: AQ A7s Ax A4s Q7s (i've seen it) AA QQ 77 44. You are drawing dead to all but one, but the rest of them you are drawing to a single King. Against three opponents I would fold. Someone was either slowplaying a set, which happens a lot or they hit an ace either way you're on the ropes and need to fold. You have represented strength the whole way and all of a sudden he raises you, with no reads it is a fold until you know your opponent a little bit better.In the s

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