RE: 2-10 spread limit texas holdem poker hand
January 28, 2015 at 4:39 pm
(This post was last modified: January 28, 2015 at 4:41 pm by Heywood.)
(January 28, 2015 at 4:21 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(January 28, 2015 at 4:17 pm)Heywood Wrote: Small raises in late position against many limpers with speculative hands are often not bad plays in this game. Take 9c8c against the blinds and 3 limpers. Calling on the button leaves the pot at $11. If I flop a flush draw, I might have to fold it to a $10 bet. By making a small raise preflop, I can manipulate the size of the pot so that I have proper odds to call a max bet if I flop a drawing hand.
How many draws do you think you're going to flop with a pair of eights, Heywood? If you had a speculative hand, you'd have a point. You don't. You have a hand that plays vbest heads up or against a lot of players. Playing it against two for a small raise is bad bad bad.
I agree a small raise with a pair of 8s was mistake. I was thinking about a previous hand(which was a huge kill pot) where I lost with flopped big set to runner-runner flush. I was shuffling my chips and just splashed the pot with what was in my hand. I thought you were talking about small raises against limpers in general.
I folded by the way, I would probably need to call 3 bets to see a show down only to find I was beat all along or got drawn out on was my rationale. The guy who exclaimed he could beat a pair of 4s won the hand with pocket 5s. The guy next to me told me he thought I should have made it $15....which is why I am still thinking about this hand.
