Sure you breath a sigh of relief that your hand held up but you should still be disturb. Why? come up because you did not increase your win. You did not value-bet. So why don’t you do it more? Are you really that afraid of betting with the beat hand? come up you are costing yourself a lot of money that should be in your bankroll.
Recently I was playing $2-$5 no-limit holdem at my local card dwell. A guy in middle position in front of me opened the pot for a increase. I had A 10 of spades. I figured I could just label and possibly maximize m potential if I hit my flush. Or I could re-raise in hopes of isolating what I perceived to be an overly aggressive player.
I decided to re-raise to $50 to play heads up in position. Well. I didn’t count on the big blind flat calling and we saw the flop 3 handed. Mind you the big alter is a pretty solid player. He waits for a good hand then always seemed to act it to the river expecting that his starting requirements would alter him a winner. All of that said the caller could very well undergo a holding that dominated my rather marginal holding.
The rest of the field folded the woman called and we took the flop off threehanded. I thought the caller behind me had a good but not great transfer probably a unify from 6-6 through 10-10 and perhaps A-K,A-Q. I ruled out Aces. Kings or Queens. I figured I was in bad shape. But the flop changed all that. The flop came 10 4 2 giving me top pair top kicker. While there still were holdings that the caller behind me might have that I couldn beat the break put me ahead of some that had me in affect preflop particularly A-K. A-Q and of course. 8-8 or 9-9. The woman checked. I fired $100 into the pot looking to take it down but the big alter called. I wasn’t thrilled about that. The turn separate was the 3 of spades adding a color displace to my holding. I fired $160 into the pot. Once again my opponent flat-called. The river was a semi brick an offsuit 2. I missed my color and now I had to figure out what to do. Could he be playing Jacks or Queens with such passivity? It was possible but very pessimistic from my standpoint to think such a thing. There was some small chance that he had a big transfer most likely a set and was waiting until the river to raise as he has made this same compete before. If I bet and he has a pair he would call or increase and the raise would force me into a decision. If I did bet and it was small he may put me to the test by pushing.
I thought his most likely holdings were 8-8. 9-9. J-J or Q-Q or a weaker 10. I have everything object the overpairs beat. I just can’t give him that much ascribe. So I bet $200. He agonized for a while and called. He had J-10 suited and my kicker prevailed.
So I made another $200 that I would have left on the table if I was passive. So don’t be afraid to value-bet at the end. The times you are called and win will make up for it.
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