Folding a set

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I beleive that a set is a really strong hand that can bring your a lot of money since this hand is well disguised.
I want to hear your thoughts about do you ever fold your set if there's no flush, no straight, no full house on the board, you can only be beat by a higher set?
For me it's always hard to fold even though sometimes I'm pretty sure that my opponent has a higher set.
 
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If board dry, fold set will be big leak ever. .... This is nonsense you can never be sure that villain have higher set and you have to try play on whole stack with you set.. If you lose with set vs higher set, it's just not your day....
 
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As you have said, a set is a very strong hand and well disguised, so I will almost never fold it. You cannot be afraid of a higher set on a dry board, because opponent may have tptk, an overpair or doubles or even a lower set, so never fold it, unless that villian can have a straight or a flush
 
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You are crazy.. im no fold that
 
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If there are some dro combinations on board,or some pair on the board - may fold because there are many guys that play with bad wands and get bigger set (for example A3 ) board AA10
 
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Never to fold of course with the conditions you mention above.

If he has a higher set, then good for him and Ill pay him off.
 
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Your only folding sets to wet boards.
 
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Never.

Even in nose bleed stakes games people are getting stacks in with sets on boards with no flush or straight possibilities.

Even folding sets on boards that contain 3 cards to a straight or flush is probably a leak at the micros.
 
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in any situtations u need to fold its normal set its monster but in crazy boards your set is like a child
 
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If for you it is a hard fact for me it's impossible, you're strong)))
 
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Maybe if you have 22 and the preflop raiser shoves the river for 1000x pot when you guys are both 100,000bbs deep on a AK982 rainbow board. Other than that probably not
 
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Never fold a set especially in strong position. Even with st8 or flush possibilities you should push through. A set is well hidden and has value+ is most situations. exploit those and increase your br
 
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its hard thats right but u have brain :)
 
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only fold sets if you have good reason to believe your opponent has a great chance to have a better hand. Also realize that even then, if you flop a set and they flop a straight or a flush and you both get it all-in, you are still drawing quite live to a full house to beat them. If you KNOW they have it, at least 90%, then you can let it go in this situation profitably. but you pretty much never will be that certain.

If the board is dry, if i have an opportunity to get it all in with a caller or 2 (or more) I will consider it Christmas and do it every time.
 
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If i get raised be four the flop and hit a set i feel good but say i have 4s or 9s and the flop shos bigger cards you never no lots of variance with a low set that can beat you
 
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If the only hand that can beat your set is another set - very hard to fold there because the likelihood (odds) of that actually occurring are so remote that pot odds make it a correct call just about 100% of the time. Anything less than 100% would have to come down to reads on your opponent.
 
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Always need to play carefully and have the power to fold even with strong card if you know that you're behind an opponent.
 
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In my opinion, I will never fold a set if there is no flush/straight drawl on table. If table is dry, i will never fold set, rather try to trap the other player(s) into thinking they are stuck in calling or shoving all in. Like other posters have stated, If you do lose to a higher set, NOTHING wrong with your play, and I would walk away from the table with my head held high. Cards will always fall as they may, however when you have a set on a dry flop, I would think mostly 99.9% of players would all tell you to never fold. ONLY way I would even rethink folding a set on flop, would once again, be that there is a flush or straight draw on the table. DRY TABLE = NUTS in my book. All just my opinion but I do believe 99% of players would completely agree on this matter.
 
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ok you can fold, let´s say you flopped a low set like deuces or treys in a board like AK3 no flushes no straights no fullhouses,

let´s say the nit villain is the aggresor preflop but then he doesn´t cbet just check and you check, turn is a 9 he checks you bet and he checkraises, what´s next?

i think is very difficult to fold this hand but if you have a good stack and so has the villain then you could considere folding your set
 
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I cant ever see a situation where I would sold 22 on say 25T. Never at 4nl thats for sure.
 
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If there is no flush or str8 I would be hard pressed to fold a set
 
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u told fold set listen now
i call from BB 89siuted
player who raise me its reg well i know he have good card
floop TJQ off siuted
turn 2 and he 4 bet me allin i fold
i must search this hand and i copy there
 
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u told fold set listen now
i call from BB 89siuted
player who raise me its reg well i know he have good card
floop TJQ off siuted
turn 2 and he 4 bet me allin i fold
i must search this hand and i copy there

No.
 
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u told fold set listen now
i call from BB 89siuted
player who raise me its reg well i know he have good card
floop TJQ off siuted
turn 2 and he 4 bet me allin i fold
i must search this hand and i copy there

If the you are folding here this must mean the reg is very nit like. Therefore he will be shoving in the nuts and never calling an all in or big bet without the nuts. I this scenario I dont see why you bother calling this pre flop unless other players have also entered the hand, nits offer pretty much nil implied odds long term.

No point playing a speculative hand if you have to fold the 3rd nuts because villlain is a nit. This is just throwing money away.
 
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