Raising To Eliminate Poker Players Part4
The problem, though, is that your flush is only 9-high. Anyone with a higher ♦ will beat you if another comes on the turn or river. Your hand is good at the moment but very vulnerable. Using the table from Chapter 7, you can see that anyone holding a higher ♦ has only a 27.8% chance of getting the flush to beat you.
Since you know you are going to win this hand almost three out of four times, you should raise to give him the worst possible odds to draw to the hand (and a chance to fold). Sometimes your opponent will be holding something like J48* and fold, not wanting to risk being beat himself when another ♦ comes. On your good days, a player holding a higher ♦ will fold when you raise, another ♦ will come on the turn or river, and you will look soooo good when you drag the pot. Congratulations on being smart enough to know how to play the hand.
You hold 2V2*. The flop is A4A*2±.
Just like you can't afford to slowplay bottom set, you can't afford to slowplay bottom full house. Do not be lulled into a false sense of security just because you have a full house and it is high on the scale of poker hands. Anyone holding a pocket pair could hit it on the turn or river to make a higher full house, and anyone holding an ace and a 3 or above could hit his kicker to make a higher full house also. There's also the very real possibility of the dealer's running off a pair on the turn and river. Sure, you're still a favorite against these draws happening, but still, you'd rather they fold and let you win the pot right there. It's better to win a small pot than to lose a big one, and that's what a raise to eliminate players will help you do.
Your poker hand in hold 'em is always relative, because its strength depends largely on what cards are on the board. For example, what if I told you that you'd make four-of-a-kind on your next hand? You'd be pretty excited. But what if I added that the board would be A4A*AVA42*, and you'd hold 343V against three other players? How do you feel about your four-of-a-kind now?
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