There are benefits of doing it on a drawy board (as in you have outs, I would prefer to do it with a straight draw rather than a flush draw as it's much less obvious when you hit) too.
Of course if they have nothing it will usually work no matter what you have. Knowing your opponent and your own table image are important factors.
The other day I took a pot off someone with pocket 4's in the BB by checkraising the flop (he had an obvious big pair and I was hoping no set) and pushing the turn. He timed way down before folding, I showed and he went on tilt.
I also bluff raised the turn on another table (I had 99 and didnt raise this time from ep and there was a J high on flop and Q on turn) after the preflop raiser checked the flop and bet the turn. He had KK and checked the flop to trap me. When he checked the flop and bet the turn I put him on AK but it was a mistake as he would have lead with that on the flop very often. I was really stupid for me to make this play as I would have raised JJ or QQ pre and would have bet a baby set almost always on the flop when checked to. So he had me cold here. He called the raise and checked the river, I gave up the play and checked behind.
At baby stakes you can just 16 table pocket pairs and set mine and rake in a nice hourly earn. Once your up against players who have also moved up in stakes and pay attention and are winning players and they see that every time you raise you have it, well they are either trapping you with the 1 or 2 hands that beat you, are getting odds to draw (immediate or implied), or they are done with the hand. Who wants to play a big pot against an opponent who your note on them says "tight and never bluffs or semi bluffs" or something to that effect?
On the best playes at the table:
That is a relative idea and the truely best players do not often lay down the best hand.
A default strategy against a tight player would be to give them credit but some good players may also decide to float your checkraise to see what you do. Flat calling a raise is a powerful play, especially in postion. If you have a set and a flush completes on the turn what are you going to do? Bet and fold to a push? Does he now have AKs instead of KK because he cold called your checkraise and the third heart fell?
I am beginning to realize just how powerful postion is if played well by a smart player with stones. Something I need to work on is consistency with representing hands on future streets that flow with how I would play something preflop and on the flop. I think I need to do it single or double tabling to get used to it rather than 6 tabling though lol.Statistics: Posted by bkholdem — Fri May 26, 2006 6:01 am
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