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CALLING AND FOLDING - 1
Two factors would have helped determine how you would have played stud poker: the size of your trips and what the board had been showing. With no pairs on the board, or with lower pairs than your trips, even if you had had two dead cards, you would have wanted to bang away.
Many hands would have been won by any set of trips, so when you had them and no one else appeared to, you could have stayed in as long as possible. You should have made online poker hands that were trying to improve pay.
So when should you have folded? The only instance in which you should have folded would have been when there had been bigger pairs on the board and there had been a lot of action that made it difficult to call.
When none or one of your needed cards to improve was gone, calling to see the fifth street was fine, when playing stud poker.
But, in stud poker, if two of your cards had been gone, it would have been two full bets to you, and you could have seen a bigger pair or two bigger pairs out there, you should have thought long and hard about calling.
You had probably been looking at one or more sets of trips bigger than yours. Would it really have been worth two full bets to take a chance on the two cards in the deck that could have helped?
Unless the pot had been huge and you were getting fantastic pot odds, as tough as it would have been, you should have folded in this poker situation.
If you had been paying attention to what was on the board and what had been folded, your play could have been much more nuance. Let’s look at an example to illustrate what i mean.
Say you had had trip fours, and it was a four-dollar bet to you. To your left (yet to act) was a pair of jacks. Normally, you would have just called the bet and waited to see what that poker player would have done.
If you had seen a jack fall, tough, you should have gone ahead and raised it to eight dollars – making the pair of jacks pay to let you now if he had the last jack in the deck.
With that large of a bet and solid pair on the board, he probably wouldn’t have re-raised unless he had had trips. If you had seen both of a poker player’s needed cards for trips fall, you could bang away no matter what the rank of his pair.
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Quick Guide…. RAISE if: It looks like several drawing hands have yet to act. There are no bigger pairs than yours on the board. There is a bigger pair yet to act, but you have seen one or two of his needed cards for trips fall. CALL if it is a full bet back to you and you see a larger pair yet to act. If that player has raised, it is a strong indicator that he has made trips. Think carefully if your holdem kickers are dead. FOLD if two circumstances combine: |