Texas Holdem Poker
How do u counter this, because i often bluff big and take down medium to large sized pots, but now my oponents aren't betting their flush, and checking to me on the river w/ the nuts....
Is there any way to get information by betting, if so how big should the bets be compared to the size of the pot/size of the blinds.
It sounds like you may be too predictable. If they have picked up on the fact that you are bluffing a lot then waiting for a big hand and snapping you off is the correct strategy. You need to adjust by tightening up a bit, and not bluffing as much or pushing your bluffs as far.
As for the amount to bet, I would consistantly bet 3-5 times the big blind, regardless of the strength of your hand (unless you just call of course). That will help keep people from reading your hand based on the size of your bet. On the flop generally bet about the size of the pot. This will usually work as well as an all in if he has no hand, without the risk. And again always betting about the same amount will make your hand hard to read.
If your opponent calls both a pre-flop raise, and a pot size bet on the flop, think hard about firing off another bet. What could he have to stay in? At that point discretion may be the better part of valor. You may want to check and give it up if he bets into you. Don't look at it as a loss, look at it as a saved bet. If you really want to out trick the trickster, you can do that a couple of times, then check the turn when you do have a monster, and turn the tables by raising when he bets into you. I have had success with that ploy a number of times.
Mix it up, bet when you got nothing, conservative players hardly ever win. can wait for cards to come out, just gotta bet at a pot and put others to the test...if they got the guts to play with you. so no matter what you got, just play the player. the he plays at you, play back at him, and you'll catch him with his hand in the cookie jar.
Im on the button in a sit n go on PS and im dealt pocket 9s ... And its just the start of the tourney and blinds are @ 25/50 and i raise 400 ..aggressive play hoping to get it heads up with someone ..but i get two callers...
Flop comes as a rainbow 10 j 4...Not good for me..Table checks ....Turn card is a q... This gives me an open ended straight draw....The SB bets 100.....gets called by both players including myself..River is a 9.....That gives me a set of nines...But an 8 or a king kills me.....The Sb comes out and bets 300..i can live with paying that..But the BB, other player involved comes over the top for 900 more..i think long and hard and i fold my set of nines... the sb calls and MUCKS her hand to the BB who shows JUST TWO PAIR queens and 10s and takes a big pot down..... I mucked the winner but im sort of glad i can laydown a good hand AS MUCH AS I DESPISE!!!! reading a play wrong...... im pretty sure most other players might fold with the table the way it was? or did i do a bad laydown
No doubt.... it was the right move. Considering the raised preflop, wouldnt you want to know whats out there by making a bet??? Sorta like a bluff representing a high pair... you might have chased some people out right there.
Ive been limping in with pocket pairs of late and you get 5-7 callers in a sit n go at start of tourney so yes..in that case you will lose most of time unless u hit a set...But heads up i do believe a pair of 9s is a respectable hand
Pair of 9's you limp in hoping to get a low flop or a 9. once you saw 10, J on flop and someone raises you should have folded. You got lucky with the river but in the long run if you play like that you'll end up losing.
Checking it shows weakness, but it also gives your opponents a Free Card, and with 9s, you cant afford to let anyone catch a high card or a straight draw. You gotta be aggressive at this point, represent you got top pair.
As for your preflop raise... like pokerplayboy said, i will agree with your decision, but be aware about how much u raise preflop with a mid pair. Heads up, its pretty good, but with 4-5 callers... unless u flop a set, you will pretty much be beaten on the flop. Remember that!!
Either bet strong preflop, or just limp in hoping to bust someone on the flop or get lowe cards.
Playing 3/6 at pacific. I'm in the sb with A8o. I call (first mistake?).
Flop comes A,x,7 rainbow.
I check
checks around to button who bets.
I call (uh?)
Anyway the river ends up being an Ace.
I check raise she reraises I call.
I lose to
A7o fullhouse
My question is this:
Should you even call A8 in the small blind no raise? What about the check call, was that a good idea? The check raise?
I don't think your call before the flop is wrong, the absence of a raise suggests you aren't facing an ace with a better kicker and you are getting pretty good odds on your call.
I don't like your flop play though, I would have bet to see where the other players are; if I got raised someone else has a better another ace or a set. Check-raise is another option, if the late position players (particularly the button) are likely to bet.
On the river, I don't understand why you check raised, there are no more cards to come, so protecting your hand isn't an issue, your hand didn't really improve (a non-ace 2 pair is the only hand would beat yours on the turn that you have beat now). Given how you played the hand on the earlier betting rounds, I think check/call would have been the correct play. I assume the pot is large enough to make a laydown prohibitive and your opponent would re-reaise with a better hand, you are risking 2 BBs to gain 1 additional BB; not a good move unless your opponent is an aggressive one (limping in from the button suggests your opponent isn't aggressive)who would bet medium pair or worse with such tenacity.
It's all situational, but generally A8o is a trap hand IMO. I normally don't play it unless in late position when no one has entered the pot and I think the blinds will fold to a raise.
In a multi-way pot, I wouldn't stay with it w/o flopping either two pair or top pair top kicker, or of course trips. Hitting just the ace loses too often to a higher kicker or two pair, so having opponents left on the turn is bad news for this hand.
Even making trip aces is dangerous, since at low limit a lot of players play ace-anything, the fourth ace is more likely to have seen the flop for a single bet than at middle limits, meaning that even with trips you still have to worry about a better kicker or a boat. I would not have played this from the SB, but if I acidentally did, I would have bet on the flop, and then just checked it down.
A8 in the small blind without any raises sounds reasonable, so i dont fault you for calling it. Your opponent flopped two pair so she got very lucky... considering you had a slightly higher kicker. If an eight popped on the turn, you would shitting all over him/her. When that last Ace popped, i wouldnt have checked raised it, considering you must have thought someone has an Ace with a better kicker... at the least. 8 isnt very good if u ask me. OR maybe someone had the 7 to make trips. You should have just called instead hoping to get a possible split pot.
