What’s A Guy To Do???
Early in the tournament and I look down at wired tens. I raise to 3 times the big blind and I get called by the button and we’re off to the flop.
Talk about a beautiful flop for a pair of tens. I put in a standard continuation bet hoping he’s got something like A9 and was just calling on the button with position.
That card potentially made a straight but it’s highly unlikely that he was playing 58 to a raise (even with position). I make another bet and he raises. I think for a minute and then call. I’m scared that maybe he’s got a set but it still feels like an unpaired ace.
I’ve got an overpair to the board with my pair of tens and I was raised on the turn. This card actually scared me a bit cause after getting raised on the turn I started thinking about a possibility of being up against a set and he very likely would have called my pre flop raise with a small pair like threes. Even with that thought going through my head, I figure that the 3 on the river didn’t help him so if I was beat before I’m still beat and if I was ahead before I’m a winner. The raise on the turn really scared me so I decided to check and see if I couldn’t win at showdown or call a smallish bet on the end. He made a small enough bet that I was getting pot odds to call and he rolled over pocket aces to take a nice size pot.
Looking back I’m not sure what I could have done differently. Raising pre flop with tens is the obvious play and making a bet after flopping an over-pair is a no brainer. I got raised on the turn but with the exception of a set I didn’t see how I was behind. I suppose I should have started thinking about a big pair at this point but I just didn’t. I like my check on the river here because if I’m beat I’m REALLY beat and I’m going to get raised anyhow.
See you after the flop!
It’s very rare for players to raise a turn bet without a huge hand, unless they are a really good thinking player. Still really hard to getaway from your hand.
Steve
13 Feb 10 at 5:43 pm
Thanks for the comment Steve. Next time I run across this I’ll try to reconstruct the hand before moving forward!
Chewie
15 Feb 10 at 11:06 am
.Preflop fine…Flop is fine…Turn is a fold…River is an easy fold….–…To call turn you have to …1 Put him on air…2 Put him on air…3 Put him on air…To call river you have to …1 Put him on air when its obviuos you have a boat…2 Put him on air when its obvius you have a boat…3 Put him on air when its obvious you have a boat …Without a read i think youre toast here WAY more than the 2 1 youre getting to call….I know people get out of line – but this would be one of the DUMBEST bluff lines of all time. Your line is completlely consistent with any pair 88 – and the thought of you folding it here is absurd….Call me crazy but his line looks like 6x….14 11 1.8 is really nitty – and id def need a read that hes getting out of line to make a turn call..let alone a river call….Im also not sure why we are even betting the turn – do you really think were getting 3 streets out of 22 33 44? ……. .hmm rethinking this hand a bit…Are you assuming that…1 he never takes this line with a med pair 88-JJ – and pretty much plays bluff-catcher with them?…If so – hes certainly polarized between nuts air here. Id still fold but its probably closer. ……. .Forgot to say Id been taking down a lot of pots without going to showdown within the last few orbits….His flop call was a bit suspicious to me I think I maybe made it a bit too small and he could float with a hand like AJ….either that or a 6. I think hed raise any pocket pair here.
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26 Jun 11 at 5:26 am