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Cash games - How to extract the max amount

  • 15-11-2005 05:12PM
    #1
    The Troll
    Closed Accounts Posts: 686 ✭✭✭


    Recently i've been finding that I'm not getting paid off with premium hands in cash games. I play between .25/.50 and 1/2 six handed games.

    Examples are if i hit the nut flush. I put in a pot size bet on the river and everyone folds, even though they called my bets on the flop and turn. Same with boats, quads etc.

    Should i lower my river bets to entice people to call or raise me? I'm finding that pot size bets and sometimes 1/2 pot size bets are making me lose out on some big action.

    I've also tried check raising when UTG but never seem to get raised and dont get paid off.

    Advice please.


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  • #2
    Hectorjelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,696 ✭✭✭Hectorjelly


    Post an example of a hand where you think you could of extracted more money


  • #3
    The Troll
    Closed Accounts Posts: 686 ✭✭✭The Troll


    Well i cant get the hand histories now as im in work, but an example is last night playing .50/1 on VC. dealt AK suited in the BB. Everyone limps and i raised it to $6. 3 calls two folds. Flop comes AK5 rainbow. UTG checks. I bet $13. Call, call, fold. Turn is a 9. UTG checks again(i'm now slightly worried he hit a set on the flop). I bet $30. Call, call.

    River is an A. i bet $70. Fold fold.

    This isn't one of the best examples though, its just one that comes to mind off-hand.


  • #4
    Hectorjelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,696 ✭✭✭Hectorjelly


    The Troll wrote:
    Well i cant get the hand histories now as im in work, but an example is last night playing .50/1 on VC. dealt AK suited in the BB. Everyone limps and i raised it to $6. 3 calls two folds. Flop comes AK5 rainbow. UTG checks. I bet $13. Call, call, fold. Turn is a 9. UTG checks again(i'm now slightly worried he hit a set on the flop). I bet $30. Call, call.

    River is an A. i bet $70. Fold fold.

    This isn't one of the best examples though, its just one that comes to mind off-hand.

    You played that well, to be honest that proves what morons you are playing with as they evidently called on the flop and turn with middle pair or a gutshot. On the river you should just move in as an ace will never fold.

    The important factor is to price your opponents in by the river. Remember you are playing morons and they wont fold mediocre hands unless they have to call a really big bet so you have to gradually get them committed so that on the river the pot is quite big and it feels natural for them to call all in.

    If your opponents are folding to big bets on the river then you should probably start making big bluffs on the river often. Its not a disastor if you get called because you have now made it much harder for them to fold to you on the river.


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