Playing out of the blinds with pot odds
金曜日, 9 月 21 2007Hi Phil,
What is the proper strategy from playing out of the blinds when you have "pot odds" to see a flop but you have a lousy hand like J8 suited or something like that?
I find myself often losing big pots from the blinds because I don't like to give them up (cause I don't want to be run over) after flopping a pair but losing to a better hand. This is particularly true when everyone folds to the SB and he raises my BB. Lost a monster pot to Young Phan in the super sat to the WPT in this exact situation cause I didn't think he had anything and my J8 flopped a J on a J1010 board and he had AJ.
Anyway, what do you do out of the blinds?
Mike Hirsch
Give them up! Why not just fold your hand pre-flop, and go on to the next hand? Let them "Run you over" for awhile, but when you do have a big
poker hand in the blinds, make a huge (memorable) size re raise, so that your opponents have the impression that you a "strong player," and then they might fold more often to your blinds pre-flop.
Phil Hellmuth
