How to play Pocket-Pairs

13.09.2006, 00:45 0

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Party Poker 0.10/0.20 Hold'em (10 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

Preflop: Hero is MP1 with K, K. CO posts a blind of $0.10.
3 folds, Hero raises, 1 fold, MP3 calls, CO (poster) calls, 1 fold, SB calls, 1 fold.

Flop: (9 SB) 4, 5, Q (4 players)
SB checks, Hero bets, MP3 folds, CO calls, SB folds.

Turn: (5.50 BB) 5 (2 players)
Hero bets, CO calls.

River: (7.50 BB) J (2 players)
Hero bets, CO raises, Hero calls.

Final Pot: 11.50 BB

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Party Poker 0.10/0.20 Hold'em (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with A, A.
Hero raises, 6 folds, SB calls, 1 fold.

Flop: (5 SB) 8, 3, 5 (2 players)
SB bets, Hero raises, SB calls.

Turn: (4.50 BB) J (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets, SB calls.

River: (6.50 BB) 7 (2 players)
SB bets, Hero calls.

Final Pot: 8.50 BB

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Party Poker 0.10/0.20 Hold'em (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with 8, 8.
1 fold, Hero calls, 3 folds, Button raises, 2 folds, Hero calls.

Flop: (5.50 SB) T, A, 5 (3 players)
Hero checks, Button bets, Hero folds.

Final Pot: 3.25 BB

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Party Poker 0.10/0.20 Hold'em (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with 7, 7. UTG+1 posts a blind of $0.10.
Hero calls, UTG+1 (poster) checks, 5 folds, SB completes, BB checks.

Flop: (4 SB) 8, 6, 9 (4 players)
SB bets, BB folds, Hero calls, UTG+1 raises, SB calls, Hero calls.

Turn: (5 BB) T (3 players)
SB bets, Hero raises, UTG+1 3-bets, SB folds, Hero calls.

River: (12 BB) 3 (2 players)
Hero checks, UTG+1 bets, Hero calls.

Final Pot: 14 BB

Thanks for any help.

2 replies

_Anonymous_

13.09.2006, 01:21 0

Pocketpairs, my favorite (yeah right, I get a lot of them these days though)

let's see:

1) Looks fine, consider what he might be calling with and what would cause him to raise the river. Seems to me the only truly likely hands are QJ and JJ. You'll win against QJ, lose against JJ, 50/50, good call in my book.

2) I'd fold the river I think, just looks to obviously like he made a flush: reasoning: He betted out on the flop, played passively afterwards and donks you on the river. Only other hand that would seem logical to me is an 87 of a different suit, making him top pair op the flop en 2pair on the river, against which you're also behind.

3) Good fold, 2 overcards to your pair, well in range to a preflop raiser, and a potential flush.

4) Fold flop, I'm not kidding :), your 2 outs for sevens are dead since they make an easy straight, a 5 is a good card for you but the T is questionable. I can easily see someone playing QJ here. That and the pot is small and you're up against some potentially reverse implied odds.

Hope that helped, I'm hardly an expert with Pockets and make plenty mistakes. Most of the hands you posted here I think can be resolved with basic handreading, what makes sense for my opponent to hold depeding on how he acted thusfar.

Cyfron

Joined: 21.01.2005

Posts: 1,578

13.09.2006, 11:11 0

1) good
2) call flop -> raise Turn the board is very drawheavy !
3) fine
4) you can�t fold an OESD here ... well played !

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