Comments on: pork bbq http://www.whiskeychaser.com/07/21/cards/pork-bbq/ . . . no telling what you're in for Sun, 23 May 2010 06:07:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: malfaire http://www.whiskeychaser.com/07/21/cards/pork-bbq/comment-page-1/#comment-74 malfaire Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:41:14 +0000 http://www.whiskeychaser.com/?p=25#comment-74 well, the theory is that you're behind and often just hoping to chop that it's best to fold. rough math wise, you're simply not recouping a great deal of money from the times you lose enough to offset the times which you win. also, if you consider the hand combinatorics, you have blockers to the guy having your hand, thus reducing the amount of times you'd be chopping even more so. given the hand, i'm not entirely sure if it's best to be folding to the checkraise as your sizing is a bit small -- i'd bet something like $13 and if he check/jams on you....you know you're beat. also you'll get good value from weaker hands. given how thing played out, i'd consider folding the river. your hand looks a bit face up (he might not be the best hand reader, but still) and he's a relatively passive guy who shouldn't be doing this with a lot of worse hands at all. well, the theory is that you’re behind and often just hoping to chop that it’s best to fold. rough math wise, you’re simply not recouping a great deal of money from the times you lose enough to offset the times which you win. also, if you consider the hand combinatorics, you have blockers to the guy having your hand, thus reducing the amount of times you’d be chopping even more so.

given the hand, i’m not entirely sure if it’s best to be folding to the checkraise as your sizing is a bit small — i’d bet something like $13 and if he check/jams on you….you know you’re beat. also you’ll get good value from weaker hands.

given how thing played out, i’d consider folding the river. your hand looks a bit face up (he might not be the best hand reader, but still) and he’s a relatively passive guy who shouldn’t be doing this with a lot of worse hands at all.

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