Originally posted by erwite
I am gonna check the videos as I most of you recommend that way of learning. Going to hold reading the books and see if I can do better following pokerstrategy advices. See you at the tables
Oh.; Just had a terrible bad beat. Thats what I think it was. 0.05/0.10 NL Hold'em. . Raise $0.10 preflop with AKo. All players fold. SB raises $0.50. Previosuly noticed the guy rised with cards like 9,10s so though that cant be two aces or even two Kings. Alright. We go further. I reraise $1.20 and he calls. The flop comes K 2 7. So I bet 1.50. The guy calls and the turn comes 5. Well I though to myself for a while. He may have a King but he wont have a more powerful kicker than I do. So I go all-in. Well, he does the same. He shows the card it is K8o. The river comes 8 and I lose a big pot
with what I believed to be a good play. Can you advise if that was correct play or not or just a bad beat?
In my short experience you have to chalk that up and move on. I had a really bad beat, where I had a full house on the turn, and the guy caught a Straight Flush on the river. It was fixed limits, so I didn't blow my pot entirely. If it was NL I think I would've gone all in. So I was lucky in that extent.
As you're playing probabilities, there's no such thing as a dead cert (well, except for a Royal Flush), if you think that there's a strong chance you might not have the nuts, then if he re-raises you, check, rather than raise, the guy.
If you've kept a note of the above hand then post it in the
hand evaluation section. (The evaluators will need everything, Stack Sizes, position, blinds, etc. etc.)
Best of luck!