* We have 3 or 4 people seeing the flop in an unraised pot, so there's 3-4 SB in the pot so far.
* I'll typically have a small/medium pocket pair or overcards.
* Someone will invariably donk a bet on the flop, no matter what the flop is.
* The board is such that if the bettor connected with the flop (spiked a pair or better), then I'm drawing pretty thin to beat them (I certainly don't have pot odds to continue due to the small pot), but if they didn't, then I most likely have the best hand at the moment.
What do I do???
Here's an example from yesterday (trust me, it didn't take long to find one...) -
***** Hand History for Game 3198657500 *****
$0.50/$1 Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, December 14, 03:59:48 EDT 2005
Table Table 65444 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: darkchildX ( $45.25 )
Seat 2: nitsud05 ( $19.10 )
Seat 8: JCommando ( $16.21 )
Seat 9: maddrrx ( $39 )
Seat 10: mike14741 ( $14 )
Seat 3: Brolyan ( $49.75 )
Seat 6: gotchernose ( $25 )
Seat 7: pickerals ( $7.75 )
Seat 5: firehydrant1 ( $11.50 )
Seat 4: oscardisfood ( $8.50 )
pickerals posts small blind [$0.25].
JCommando posts big blind [$0.50].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Brolyan [ ]
maddrrx folds.
mike14741 calls [$0.50].
darkchildX folds.
nitsud05 folds.
Brolyan calls [$0.50].
oscardisfood calls [$0.50].
firehydrant1 folds.
gotchernose folds.
pickerals folds.
JCommando checks.
4 people to the flop in an unraised pot.
** Dealing Flop ** [ , , ]
JCommando bets [$0.50].
mike14741 folds.
Brolyan folds.
oscardisfood calls [$0.50].
The big blind, who only checked pre-flop, comes out firing. If he happened to have an Ace or King, I'm in big trouble, but if he didn't - perhaps he only has a flush draw - then I'm in good shape.
** Dealing Turn ** [ ]
JCommando checks.
oscardisfood checks.
The tip-off that he really didn't have an Ace or King.
** Dealing River ** [ ]
JCommando bets [$1].
oscardisfood folds.
Or maybe he did... We'll never know. My gut feeling is that I mucked the best hand to his flop bet.
JCommando does not show cards.
JCommando wins $4.25
pickerals has left the table.
And this is just one example out of dozens or hundreds that I've seen at these tables...
How would you more expert players out there play this hand? For some reason (brain pattern-recognition at work most likely), it just seems that on those occasions that I do call them down, they'll have the bigger pair and I've just spent 2.5 BB to find that out.Statistics: Posted by stickdude — Thu Dec 15, 2005 1:25 pm
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