February 05, 2010
Bet 'till they raise, then fold - Is it really so hard
“Bet until they raise then fold – Easy Game!†Baluga Whale
This piece of advice, along with “whatever you would normally bet on the river – double it†really turned my results round. Red blue and green lines on my graph all started a beutiful uptrend and I was loving life.
This last week though, I seem to have forgotton it. I think I was on winners tilt and trying to force it. FPS crept in as a substitute for proper hand reading. I got over attached to the pre-flop ranking of my hands and pushed them too far in bad spots.
So often I’d remind myself “Bet till they raise†and still I’d persuade myself that a clever check raise with KK on an ace high broadway flop was going to work.
It’s worse when the deck turns cold on me. Small pockets miss, every draw misses, premiiums all come under the gun and get no action. Finally flopped top two gets check-called, and villain Donk shoves a flush card on the turn.
I know he has it,
he knows he has it,
my silver haired mother sat knitting in her rocking chair 100 miles away knows he has it.
And still I pay him off.
No more. This I vow! No more checking into a station, no more bluffing in the face of resistance, no more FPS spew!
I give it about an hour… ;)
4 Comments:
jjd323 posted on February 06, 2010 at 03:31 AM
"What's the best hand I can make him fold?" - if you have better, bet for value; if you have worse, bluff ONCE and then stop unless you improve.
If he raises, count the realistic # of combos that can beat you. If it is more than 12 on the flop, fold; more than 10 on the turn, fold; more than 8 on the river? Yep, you guessed it, fold. Can't go too far wrong here.
jjd323 posted on February 06, 2010 at 03:31 AM
^^^^ That first sentence, taped to your monitor, will save you a lot of badly spent bluff-money.
ron0914 posted on February 06, 2010 at 13:06 PM
Nice post thank you, I will definately try and make that a mantra as I play
ron0914 posted on October 10, 2010 at 19:42 PM
6 months later you're still doing it.
Ez game!
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