Playing out of the blinds with pot odds
vendredi, septembre 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
