Thinker_145
Visionary
Silver Level
I am sorry I don't quite know how to explain a hand the way you guys do but anyways here it goes.
I have 44 on a 234 board and it has been a limp 7 handed pot. A friend of mine raises, gets called from someone I know nothing about, then I make a re raise which is followed by a MASSIVE 60 BB re raise from my friend. Now I know my friend enough that there is no chance in hell he would ever try to bluff there and I also feel if he had an over pair he might initially raise but then just call after my big re raise. I really feel he has flopped a straight there after he put almost all his 100 BB stack in because he just isn't the sort of player who would do that without a REALLY big hand.
Then that player I know nothing about calls the massive raise rather quickly. Now even if I know my friend has a straight I am supposed to call here right? Because if I hit a full house I'll be getting massively payed off. But if the other player has 33 or 22 then I have 3 less outs to make the winning hand. When 2 players flop a set its a lot less likely for the board to pair. So I dunno if my call is mathematically the right thing to do?
Btw I started the hand with around 200 BB and was comfortably ahead of the other 2 players in the pot who were both at around 100 BB.
As it turns out my friend had 56 and the other guy had 22. The board didn't pair and I lost a massive hand. So did I do something wrong here you feel? Perhaps it shouldn't have been a limp pot then the 56o was going to fold and I would get payed off from the 22. But hitting a set by limping in with a small pair has worked for me a lot of times. It is also entirely possible he would have called a 3-4x pre-flop raise with 56o since pre-flop he is a very loose player.
Oh and what happens if the other guy folds after the 60 BB raise? Should I also fold then since I know my friend so well? Or are we never supposed to fold top set on the flop in a cash game? I had myself put in like 25 BB into the pot before I was facing the really big raise and realized I could be behind.
I have 44 on a 234 board and it has been a limp 7 handed pot. A friend of mine raises, gets called from someone I know nothing about, then I make a re raise which is followed by a MASSIVE 60 BB re raise from my friend. Now I know my friend enough that there is no chance in hell he would ever try to bluff there and I also feel if he had an over pair he might initially raise but then just call after my big re raise. I really feel he has flopped a straight there after he put almost all his 100 BB stack in because he just isn't the sort of player who would do that without a REALLY big hand.
Then that player I know nothing about calls the massive raise rather quickly. Now even if I know my friend has a straight I am supposed to call here right? Because if I hit a full house I'll be getting massively payed off. But if the other player has 33 or 22 then I have 3 less outs to make the winning hand. When 2 players flop a set its a lot less likely for the board to pair. So I dunno if my call is mathematically the right thing to do?
Btw I started the hand with around 200 BB and was comfortably ahead of the other 2 players in the pot who were both at around 100 BB.
As it turns out my friend had 56 and the other guy had 22. The board didn't pair and I lost a massive hand. So did I do something wrong here you feel? Perhaps it shouldn't have been a limp pot then the 56o was going to fold and I would get payed off from the 22. But hitting a set by limping in with a small pair has worked for me a lot of times. It is also entirely possible he would have called a 3-4x pre-flop raise with 56o since pre-flop he is a very loose player.
Oh and what happens if the other guy folds after the 60 BB raise? Should I also fold then since I know my friend so well? Or are we never supposed to fold top set on the flop in a cash game? I had myself put in like 25 BB into the pot before I was facing the really big raise and realized I could be behind.
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