TRIPS AND TWO PAIRS - 1

Of course, when playing stud poker, another factor that would have helped you determine whether to have stayed or folded would have been what you had held – was it two pair or trips? Peter would rather have been holding trips at this point in the hand.

Calling two big bets could have been justified with trips, but some warning bells had better have gone off in your head when you would have been faced with two big bets while holding two pair.

The reason had been in the poker odds. When you would have had trips with one card left, your odds against getting your full house would have been 4-to-1. Not good.

In either stud poker situation, if had stayed i, you would have wanted to have live cards – but the decision to call two big bets would have been much more justifiable with trips than with two pair.

Even if you had been 4-to-1 against making a full house with trips, you would probably have been getting good pot odds for your bet.

Two big bets in a $2/4 game would have been eight dollars, and at this point the pot would have probably had at least $32 in it.

Since you had probably been getting better than 4-to-1 pot odds on your bet, calling would have clearly been best, unless, of course, you had been calling a bet raised by something that had looked very dangerous, such as open trips on the board which had been higher than your trips.

Even though you would not have wanted to fold at the sixth street. You should have normally done so with two pair when you had been faced with two big bets – except if you had really wanted to spend that money to chase one card that would have helped you when you had probably been already beaten.

In peter’s experience, facing two big bets on the sixth street hadn’t been all that common in stud poker. It had been much more common to face two big bets on the showdown at the seventh street.

However, it still did happen occasionally on the sixth street, so when you would have to face such a poker situation, you should determine whether to play when it would have cost you a lot of chips to do so.

You should have stayed in only when it would look like you could improve your hand and when you would be getting the right kind of pot odds.

Putting it simply, with two big bets, you should have trips that wouldn’t be dwarfed by a bigger set of trips.

FOLDING

Quick Guide….
…. To Trips and two pairs on sixth street :

RAISE rarely. You can’t be feeling too certain about this hand, unless it looks like the other players are so weak and loose that they’ve been staying in for no reason.

CALL most of the time – you’ve stayed this far with your hand, so, if you can, stay to the end.

FOLD when you feel you will be beat.

When playing stud poker, should you ever have folded your trips or two pair when it would have been just one bet to stay in? Generally not, unless it had appeared as though you had been beaten.

You should have looked back at the example of trips on the board. In poker, rarely would someone have raised trips that had been open for everyone to see, so having folded against them when you had had a smaller set or two pair would certainly have been a wise decision.

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