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trip's on the flop what to do

  • 28-11-2005 7:46pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,356 ✭✭✭


    I was playing last night, in a $1/2$ NL

    i had about $90

    i get AJ suited,
    8 players on the table.

    someone raises $5 and gets 3 callers. as i did,

    flop comes J 3 J i raise $25 all fold but the raiser, he calls.

    4th street comes a K

    I raise another $25 and he re-raises me all in about $30 more for me.

    what would you do in this case?

    I called the bet cos i had trips.

    he had pocket Kings..

    any tips on how i should have played that hand?


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 686 ✭✭✭The Troll


    dont think u cudda played it differently


  • Subscribers Posts: 32,864 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    Not a damn thing else you could do, apart from the inevitable 'don't play with AJ in the first place' type advice.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,375 ✭✭✭padser


    being honest id love to say throw away AJs to a raise. However its basically a min raise, four ppl in pot. I think the implied odds actually warrent a call, just so long as you realise you arnt playing to hit the A.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,400 ✭✭✭TacT


    You fold. Your bet on 4th street is for information, do you have pocket Kings or a King Jack suitd perhaps? The answer is yes so you fold. Trips are a recipe for disaster unless you hit your kicker or the board pairs with something smaller, overcards in a raised pot = dead trips to a boat. How many times do you need to lose your entire stack with them top kicker or not before someone believes that?

    If you feel your trips are good on the flop then stick your stack in there and then, if he catches something to beat them so be it. What you want to do is put him to the decision of, "I have the trips, can you beat them?" Not put yourself in the situation of "I'm representing trips, do you want to call a bet and see if you can beat them on the next card?"

    You make him fold on the flop or you respect the fact you have been beaten on the turn or river, if it has gone that far. Regardless of what you have put into the pot.

    Folding trips with top kicker has saved me a fortune! I bet that you will get flashed by the boat with a courtesy show when you make those laydowns, instead of losing your entire stack, which is not what you're there to do, is it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭Ste05


    TacT wrote:
    You fold. Your bet on 4th street is for information, do you have pocket Kings or a King Jack suitd perhaps? The answer is yes so you fold. Trips are a recipe for disaster unless you hit your kicker or the board pairs with something smaller, overcards in a raised pot = dead trips to a boat. How many times do you need to lose your entire stack with them top kicker or not before someone believes that?

    If you feel your trips are good on the flop then stick your stack in there and then, if he catches something to beat them so be it. What you want to do is put him to the decision of, "I have the trips, can you beat them?" Not put yourself in the situation of "I'm representing trips, do you want to call a bet and see if you can beat them on the next card?"

    You make him fold on the flop or you respect the fact you have been beaten on the turn or river, if it has gone that far. Regardless of what you have put into the pot.

    Folding trips with top kicker has saved me a fortune! I bet that you will get flashed by the boat with a courtesy show when you make those laydowns, instead of losing your entire stack, which is not what you're there to do, is it?
    Absolutely not!!!! :eek: , this is just too weak tight... you got unlucky, it swings in roundabouts, you just have to deal with it, to fold on this turn will cost you long term. It's €30 to call and the pot is about €115 or so..... Fold????:confused::confused::confused: Unless you have some kind of read you can't fold here.

    If some donkey limped with KK so be it, and if he had KJ, again so be it, you can't fold here, the only thing to realistically be afraid of here is 33 or KJ really....


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 680 ✭✭✭Amaru


    Agree with Ste here, you did just get unlucky that he hit his set. He's 22/1 to hit one of his 2 outs, and you should be liking those sorts of odds. As far as folding trips here, why?! what hands are you behind to here? KJ, KK, 33 or J3. There's no draws(of note, author might have neglected to mention). Its understandable if there was, and it was easy to put your opponent on the hand, but folding here is incredibly weak tight.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,323 ✭✭✭Hitchhiker's Guide to...


    I'm assuming TacT is being ironic ?!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,323 ✭✭✭Hitchhiker's Guide to...


    in terms of the bet - you couldn't have played this any different considering the stacks you had. If it had been in a game where you bet $25 on the turn, and he raised you a few hundred dollars then you might have had to think about it. But, at this amount of money you had to call for your final dollars imho.


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