We have AK in early position, climbed to 4 blind (4 $) and we see two players: the button and small blind. We have read them, and have stacks smaller than ours, about 80 $ to start the hand. The boat is now 13 $.
The flop comes 4, 6, K, with letters of different suits. Bet 3 / 4 of the boat, late $ 10, and only the small blind is in hand.
The turn is 2. The small blind goes. What to do? The correct, though it may seem a little aggressive way of playing, is to move. Turning get:
1) control the pot size. If you have a double set or a slut (in NL100 extremely unlikely given the texture of the board), to avoid losing much money in hand.
2) Induce betting on the river: if you've seen your bet on the flop out of position, is that some sort of hand has to have. Still, there is a very high% of times when a player wants to pay a small part of your stack to see the turn, but then not pay a bet twice the size to go up river. In all these cases, bet only serve to throw their losing hands and do not want that. Moving on, still giving a free card that occasionally we hurt, we will make it bet bluffing (or even average value with hands) on the river, so we can draw advantage from our check on the turn.
Joined: Aug '09
Location: Poland
Age: 38 (M)
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i dont understand what is the problem. after raising pre flop you bet 2/3 or 3/4 of the pot on flop if you have caller that means either he have K too but lower kicker, he have set 444 or 666 or mid pair on hand something like 99 1010.
2 on the turn doesnt change anything so you must bet again if he checks. After his bet on turn because he is first to act you can start wondering what he have. as i said he can made a set on flop so you must know your opponent. but mostly you must raise him to find out or if you know player and you know he really made, fold
Joined: Nov '08
Location: United States
Age: 58 (M)
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You can control the size of the pot if you want, but I would be looking to get some value from this hand. Being EP, you can't really check the Turn hoping to get them to bluff the river, as when you check the river, too easy for them to check behind.
Better off playing this hand straight up and bet out on each street.
Joined: Jun '08
Location: Denmark
Age: 47 (M)
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Hi! Hmmm,dont know what to say.. I dont think there is any way to play theese cards without security! Thats poker.. You never know what people got on their hands. You can sometimes figure it out,but anyway people plays different and thats why its so hard to tell which card people have!
