Hmmm I think I just lost one of the most statistically improbable hands in poker

[Firebot]

Originally posted by: RaynorWolfcastle

Originally posted by: sixone
That's the risk you take when you check the best hand. :shrug:

Huh? Did you even read the post?

To all the people telling me to play NL, I'm not such a fan of it. I'll play occasionally in tourneys but I tend to be too aggressive in NL and eventually make one mistake or one bad read that busts me out.

Limit is a different kind of game, it's played differently. It's challenging in a different sort of way

That's fine, but then you can't really be upset of losing strong hands by limit limpers who beat you by the river. That's an expected part of limit play and why I refuse to play it myself since luck overrides strong play where it's all about drawing the best hand by the river. You can't even bluff in limit.

You'll make much more money overall in NL if you understand the pot odds along with the implied strength of your hand and outs. BTW you haven't explained why you raised such an awful hand preflop? You can't really try to steal the small blind in limit.

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Originally posted by: Firebot
That's fine, but then you can't really be upset of losing strong hands by limit limpers who beat you by the river. That's an expected part of limit play and why I refuse to play it myself since luck overrides strong play where it's all about drawing the best hand by the river. You can't even bluff in limit.

You'll make much more money overall in NL if you understand the pot odds along with the implied strength of your hand and outs. BTW you haven't explained why you raised such an awful hand preflop? You can't really try to steal the small blind in limit.

Bluffing in limit is different, the type of bluffing that usually works is when you miss your draw but you think that the other player was on a draw as well. To give you an example, you hold 6h5h and call from the big blind to a mid-position raise, assume that there's only you and the raiser in the pot.

Flop comes 2h 7c 9h. Assuming only low cards show up on the board, bluffing on the turn and river is a good idea, since your opponent is very likely to be holding nothing better than AK, AQ, AJ, and is likely to fold on the river if he doesn't make anything.


The preflop raise was because my opponent was a weak player and I had a very good table image. He'd also shown weakness by limping in, since with any two playable cards he would have very likely raised to fold me. You can definitely steal the small blind in limit, but it usually takes a preflop raise and a flop bet.