I was playing a $5-$1 tourney last night on pokerrroom.com. The very first hand I was BB and dealt 4d6d. No one raised so I saw a free flop. There were only 2 other callers.
The flop was 2d3d5d. Good thing it was online cause I didn't contain my excitement
However, since it was the first hand with a three flush on the flop I didn't know how to lead without everyone just folding. So I check called the flop. All three of us are still in. The turn was a middle card, not a diamond. I checked again, but everyone checked. I bet the river, only about 2BB and got called and took down the pot.
How would you play this? Is there a strategy (in a tourney) to possibly extract more chips from this? Should I have bet on the turn to purhaps appear to be trying to steal with a bluff? How much would purhaps be callable but not look like a trap?
I think if i would have got this hand later in the tourney when the blinds were higher compared to the stack sizes purhaps it would have played differently.
Playing my usual $10 nl .25/.50 holdem ring home game the other day. I have around 10 bucks in chips and so does my opponent. OK so heres the play...
I pick up AJs in the cutoff I raise to $2 SB calls and everyone else folds. Flop comes Q x x (no straight or flush draw). The SB bets out 1.5, now i know this kid well and he likes to bet no matter what he has. It doesn't matter what the flop is he bets the same ammount no matter what comes down. Sometimes if I raise him back he will fold, but if hes on any kind of draw at all he'll go to the river. So I double his bet and make it another 1.5. He relooks the flop and has a natural hesitation which automaticly tells me its not probable that he has the Q. turn comes X and he checks, I bet out $2.5 thinking that will be enough to push him out. He thinks for a few seconds and calls. River comes no help and he bets his last dollar (i guess my first mistake was not realizing that he almost had no money left). He bet his last dollar and I had nothing so I knew i was beat but i didn't care and wanted to see what he had so i call and he turns over 77 and i sheepishly muck my cards. I said to him that it was pretty gutsy staying in on that 77 with the Q out there and he replied that he was "waiting for the 7 to come down" (set draw lol?).
