10 thoughts on “Poker Strategy: How To Play A Set A Low Stakes”

1. This is a pretty sick hand with lady luck once again rewarding bad play. I would actually be on board with Heros decision to just call the flop, if Villain had bet a more substantial amount like 40 into the pot of 60. But when he only bet 25, I agree with Bert, that we should start raising it up right off the bat.

   The reason is, when he bet this small on the flop, he might make another small bet on the turn, and then we dont build the pot as fast, as we want to. So make it 80 on the flop, 150 on the turn, rest in on the river. Consider pot geometry to find the perfect bet sizes.

   If he fold, he fold, and its not the end off the world. We are not going to stack someone, every single time we flop a set. But we need to at least try. While Hero actually did manage to induce a big turn bluff with his passivity, inducing bluffs is not more profitable in the long run than betting for value, when we have a hand as strong as this. This hand is an outlier, both in the way the Villain played it, and as for the results.

2. Small difference but the blinds are actually 3/5 not 1/3

3. This hands a joke and the caller was frustrating to listen to. What was he trying to do? Doesn't he realize he had a value hand on an A high board!?!? He has zero blockers and the guys betting like a maniac. Bart tells him what to do and he still says he would do the same thing – I just don't get the call at all like what was he even asking? How could he avoid to get two outted on river? He really should be asking if villain had Ax or two pair how do I get the lost value ..

4. I think that raising flop in EV+ only in CA

5. The reason I wouldn't raise on the flop is simple. Villain's smallish bet looks like a probe bet, fearing the ace. A raise is going to get most pocket pairs to fold, and maybe even weaker aces like A6-A9. And definitely he is folding any total whiffs such as KQ or whatever else, why not keep him in? If I was in that spot with even QQ or KK I'd snap fold, wouldn't you?

   Definitely raising the turn, probably just shove. Gotta hope he has the 2 pair there and pays you off.

6. Why call in if you aren’t going to take Barts advice?

7. Villains general thinking is that hero calls flop with AX hands. Villain is repping AK, sort of. Makes perfect sense inside villains mind because, based on card removal, hero most likely does not hold AK. Villains turn bet screams “fold your weaker Ace, loser” . Villains line doesn’t give himself hope if hero calls turn, which hero does. This strategy is normal at $300 max games. Villain catches gold on river though, he no longer needs to apply max pressure. Villains river value bet smells like KK.

   Not uncommon at $300 max buy-in games.

8. In H's defense, the way H played it induced V to lose his mind on the turn where raising the flop would have almost surely ended the hand. However, most of the hands V takes this line with would withstand stand a raise. In general, fast play at these low stakes but not always.

9. This dude is really not good at the game and he also just called in to gloat and hear you say he was right and when you didn’t he got super defensive and salty.

   Literally the #1 hand to check raise on this board is bottom set. Any Q73 rainbow type board bottom set is your candidate to built a pot on the flop. Always. It doesn’t make any sense. What if this guy had top two? You’re losing so much money not raising when he leads.

10. the stakes are actually 3 5 at the 100 300 game with a lot of rebuys

Comments are closed.