The Poker Thread

Drumstick wrote:I'm going to post this on behalf of Jamie GR who appears to have forgotten.

The situation: You are two hours into a tournament (live or online) and have an average stack. You have only just moved to your current table and have no reads on any of the other players yet. The player to act before you who has a similar stack raises preflop, you look down to see you've been dealt AK, and make a decent sized three-bet. Everyone else gets out of the way and improbably he four-bets you all in.

Do you call?

satriales wrote:

Nova wrote:

satriales wrote:

Nova wrote:Why bet the turn there, out of interest? Weird fold though

I don't think it's a bad bet, if he's chasing the flush (which he obv was with the river fold) then you want to make him pay to see cards. Yeah he could have an ace but a lot of the time he doesn't and the turn is good as it makes it even less likely that he hit the flop.

Even less likely that he has two clubs than an ace though. The bet is a good size, to be fair, but I still like to keep the pot smallish in those situations. They show up with a raggy ace more than a flush draw in those spots.

Yeah sometimes they have an ace but I think the main idea is to have control of the pot rather than give control to your opponent.

If you decide instead to check/call the turn then your opponent could make the turn bet 500 and bet again on the river. He doesn't even have to have a hand to do it as your check showed weakness. By betting first you can keep the pot reasonably small, often take it down there and then, and still get away if it is played back at you.

satriales wrote:Playing a MTT and I get it in on the turn with KT against TT on a KQJ5 board and so i'm well ahead and unless the final ten comes on the river I've either won or we both make a straight and it is a split pot. The river is a ten

Then on another MTT which I was playing at the same time I have a king high flush and it gets checked to me on the river. I make a massive overbet to make it look lik a bluff thinking I can get paid off and the other guy stalls for ages while he thinks then he finally calls and he has the ace high flush which also happens to be the nuts. He slow-rolled me

Slayerx wrote:Going on a grind session this afternoon be 4.40 mania 3 at once with a 5.50 too I think going for volume today possibly be a 6 - 10 hour session all been well !