Betting out draws.

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smellikerurx

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I am mostly an online MTT SNG player. But I was locked out so I have picked up live cash games. I don't have a huge bank roll so I am sitting at 1 2 NLH games. I am looking to fix the leaks in my cash game. Understand I have only had about 8 sessions since I took about a year off from playing cash/ring games. So the sample size of this is small. Nevertheless, when ever I see what seems to be a pattern in my game I think it is a leak and leaks need to be fixed. Todays example:

I start the hand with about $90in chips, Blinds $1 and $2. UTG+1 calls, folds to me in the cut off. I look down at AKs, raise to $11. BB and UTG+1 call. Flop is 2 K 6 rainbow, and checked to me. With everyone checking to me I am thinking, I would love to take the pot down now, but if I get a call I wouldn't mind, but advertising that I am commiting myself to this hand. So I make $35 bet, a little bigger than the pot. BB calls, the BB+3 folds. Trun come 4h, BB checks, and as advertised I go all-in for the about $40 in chips I have left. BB calls and shows down a 5 3o.

Looking back on the hand, I could have gone all-in on the flop, and took the $34, which would have added about 33% to my stack. But as the cards were (and I am not a math major so these numbers might be off) I was an 82% fav to win the hand, which is about 4.5 to 1. Which doesn't give the BB the right pot odds to call, I am not sure how implied odd are calculated but I am not sure the he had the right implied odds to call. I have noticed that the previose losing cash/ring sessions that I have had I am usually stacking off to someone on a draw that hits. So is there a way to aviod this, or should I just chalk it up as apart of poker and let it go?
 
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You bet enough to eliminate his pot odds, and since you don't have a full stack behind you he doesn't get implied odds. Basically, he's calling $35 to win the current pot of $34, plus your $79, which gives him a little better than 2:1 implied odds. So his call is incorrect, which is good for you, except that he hit his gutshot :-\
 
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so the hand was played correctly on my part. I just need to chalk it up to a part of poker?
 
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You couldn't have put him on a made straight, however I would have considered checking the turn. What is he calling you with? Tp, 2nd K? If you could only be so lucky. Calling an overbet on the flop says to me possible set. But given your stack size and your hand and the board, I'd say just about anyway to play it involves you stacking off. On the flop, like a donk, to win the measly pot, or on the turn, where you're already drawing dead.

I'd say you played the hand correctly without more information about the villain. And I don't think I could have not stacked off with that hand on any street.
 
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so the hand was played correctly on my part. I just need to chalk it up to a part of poker?

Pretty much. The only thing I would have maybe done differently is not bet as much on the flop, because we can still offer incorrect odds with a smaller bet, while not risking as many chips (even though we're pretty much stacking no matter what), and allowing us to make a better bet on the turn, instead of putting ~$40 into a pot of $105. Overall though, I think this was played fine.
 
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