Joined: Oct '09
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 45 (M)
Posts: 44
was playing in a Cash Game on full tilt.. 0.50/1....
Cards dealt to me Where pockets 3s....... Flop Q, 3, 9 ........... and im think yes...but still Aware.....i already raised before the flop got called... then when flop was out i got Raised again.........so i Re Raised him.... thinking he had a high Q card so he went all in...... and im thinking hmmmmmmm.??????? what does he have pocket Qs? 2 pair? or Q with a high card so i went all in.......Got instant Called What did he have? Pocket 9s.....Could anyone esle of folded here? or gotton Away with that one? usually Pocket 3s and 2s are assasin hands ppl dont tend to notice u have them just maybe i was unlucky he hit and unfortunate that i had to go with it or maybe it was bad play on my Part
Joined: May '08
Location: Sweden
Age: 55 (M)
Posts: 1362
Set over set, almost impossible to get away. I once lost a buy in with a set of sixes, against a set of kings, that I ALMOST got away from, but... no.
And once actually folded a set of ducks on the flop. We both limped, I raised the flop he reraised, I raised, he went all in. the flop was something like, 952 rainbow. I knew he wasn't a total moron, so he just can't have anything else than a higher set there. I folded, and I'm still sure I did the right thing.
But that's pretty much the only situation you can get away, when there is absolutely no other hand he can have. If I would have had a set of fives, and he had a set of nines, I would have payed him off.
Anybody would have played the set of 2:s differently? (Except for the limping, I know, I shouldn't limp...)
Joined: Mar '08
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 44 (M)
Posts: 6714
Well 33 id not be raising with, but after that what can you do, just gotta suck it up and know poker is rigged. I had set on set 3 times last night and lost them all. but flopped quad As and made a killing against KK
Joined: Oct '09
Location: Ireland
Age: 34 (M)
Posts: 360
Of course you can't get away from this. if you're going to play a pocket pair, in the hope that you'll make a set, then you're obviously not going to fold it when you make you're set.
The only thing you could have done was not played the hand at all . But folding on the flop there would have defeated the purpose of playing the hand in the first place
Ive heard people saying they can sense when somebody else has a set over them & they find it in them to fold it... well im not one of those people & if i manage to find myself in one those situations & not go broke, then im not dissappointed at the outcome as long as i made the right decisions along the way. I dont think it was played badly imo, apart from the preflop raise with the 33's though, i dont think thats the ideal way to play those small pp's; i like to get em in cheap & multiway, flop the set & get as much money in there as poss, as long as theres no obvious str8's or flushes, in which case il be a little more conservative.
