Therefore I am ahead of all those weak hands which are more likely to call.”Īnyways, good job taking down a big pot and managing to get max value from your opponent given the exact hand you had. Or perhaps my raise will be a sign of classic TPTK and my opponent is going to call with any flush or straight draw, thinking he will be good if he hits his draw. They may have put me on a bare flush draw and called me with any lower Qx. Newer players are often confused about odds with certain hands and believe that they shouldve won the pot.

Perhaps you should mention what weaker hands you think the player will call you (you were clearly thinking about these hands but didn’t write them down).įor example You could have said - “I was way ahead and I felt that my jamming could be a sign of weakness, and I could get many players to call me.

The hands that are beating you - thus describing “value-owning” yourself. I think lots of the criticism is due to the discrepancy between the reads you had in your mind and what you wrote down as justification.įor example - you mentioned that you shoved because lots of hands will call you, and then proceeded to name only The pot will get big for sure, and we want to be on the right side of it.Cool action and nice takedown! Sorry I see that lots of people are criticizing your play, however it seems like you had at least some reads on the player pool that you didn’t mention (they are likely to call you light). Those times that we hit the nut flush and opponent a 2 nd nut flush, we will be printing money. Suited A high hands are now quite valuable. But now we should be careful not to be stacking off mindlessly if we don’t hold a high flush. Personally, Id usually only open with 99 or better. Thats a very loose list of starting opening hands from early position. Hitting a flush is still valuable and adds a lot to the winrate. Lets assume AA, KK, AKs, QQ, AKo, JJ, TT, AQs, 99, 88, AQ, AJs, AJ, 77, ATs, or KQs. Our hand Equity against broadway, with no pairs Equity against a random hand, no pairs 89s 40% 51.7% 89o 36% 49% AKs 70.2% 68.3% AKo 68.75% 66.7% Off suit broadways 50% 62.1% Suited broadways 52.6% 64% When playing deep, A high suit is importantĪll suited hands are still ok in deep pots.

Suited cards have around 3% equity advantage preflop.Īnd there is also a massive benefit of postflop playability. Pretty much the same thing, as in the tableĪbove, will happen here. Has a decent hand, he will have a hard time folding. The difference was minimal, even though you were second you could have been left out, in your place I would have at least limped, if you are someone who doesn't limp, they will take it as SlowPlay. The chance to hit a flush or a flush draw is As well as against pairs, suited hands doīetter against no pair hands.

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