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Hand 120 from Apestyles

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MintTrav:
An example of how not betting early can cost more chips by the end. Preflop, I know we are OOP and I wouldn"t always raise here with this hand, but we risk allowing the BB to come in with 73, etc. The hand would have been more problematical if the BB had got involved. Leading on the Flop rather than CR would have meant that a pot-sized bet on the Turn would be 1400 rather than 3000. On the River, with a pot of 4200 and 5700 behind we would have a lot more options than we now have, faced with a pot of 9000 with 3300 behind. The situation is out of control and all we can do now is cross our fingers. No doubt Apestyles will say that he was feeding on the loose-passive style of his opponent. I guess he will rationalise that the passive player would have taken a free card on the flop with a gutshot or flush draw and might have played a set differently, so he him pegged on a weaker J. Yeah, right. I don"t buy it. IMO he has lost control of the size of the pot and left himself hoping for the best. I"m sure it worked out for him though or it probably wouldn"t be in the book.

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