steveiam
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I have played about 20 tourneys over the last week with buyins up to $10. The trend seems to be if they have hit a draw on the flop and need one card to complete the draw they will call not matter how bad the pot odds are..Is this how it is now or am I missing something ?
So raising to stop people chasing draws is a waste of time and chips..you might as well wait until the river before raising.
So raising to stop people chasing draws is a waste of time and chips..you might as well wait until the river before raising.
I have played about 20 tourneys over the last week with buyins up to $10. The trend seems to be if they have hit a draw on the flop and need one card to complete the draw they will call not matter how bad the pot odds are..Is this how it is now or am I missing something ?
So raising to stop people chasing draws is a waste of time and chips..you might as well wait until the river before raising.
I think my mind set over the last couple of weeks has been wrong on this because they seem to hit the flush nearly every time. I know you should raise to make them pay but when confidence is low you tend to take the conservative approach which is wrong overall.Wait, why would you not raise? What if they don't hit? They'll lose more than half the time if they're calling with a draw. Shouldn't you bet so you take cash off em when they don't hit?
Seems to me like it's a good idea to bet cuz if you don't bet till the river, you won't make any cash off em except the money in the pot before the flop.
I have played about 20 tourneys over the last week with buyins up to $10. The trend seems to be if they have hit a draw on the flop and need one card to complete the draw they will call not matter how bad the pot odds are..Is this how it is now or am I missing something ?
So raising to stop people chasing draws is a waste of time and chips..you might as well wait until the river before raising.
I think my mind set over the last couple of weeks has been wrong on this because they seem to hit the flush nearly every time. I know you should raise to make them pay but when confidence is low you tend to take the conservative approach which is wrong overall.
This is what make tournaments so profitable - the play is so bad you can print money. You want them calling all their draws, regardless of if they get there or not.
It's not. I understand your frustration but point of the matter is - if you bet and don't give them correct odds to make the call profitable you're WINNING, not them, regardless of what the river comes. IF you're making profitable bet sizing and they are making the incorrect calls; there is only one real winner.
If you stop betting until the river, I guarantee you will be losing a lot more over the long haul.
Short term is irrelevant and one hand especially.
This is called selective memory. It's easy to remember all the beats and runner,runner flush draws they hit. Try something like jotting down each and every uncontested pot or the hands they miss their draws on and try remember those rather than the beats.
Tally it all up; I bet you have a TON more times they miss as opposed to hit no matter what you think
GL
This week for me had been never ending torture with this shit. Every time they make their flush on the river after calling 2/3+ the pot the whole way, then I end up checking/folding. Idk eventually it'll off in my cash games though.