On Trips
Hello,
For few weeks now, I’ve been playing $0.25/$0.50 No Limit. I don’t understand so many things but for now, I’ll just ask few questions.
About trips, how do you play them? Through playing trips, I won over lots of pots however also lost much. If you are in a situation where few people limp in and you have AT in late position, say you call and flop comes A-A-8 rainbow, how would you play then in case everyone checked to you or there’s a small or large raise alternatively?
Another thing, say in late position you have 87 and several players call and then you limp in too. Flop comes A-3-9 rainbow. First to act places a small raise, $1, while two players call and two others two fold. I then figure out I have 8 outs to make an open straight 6 or 10. Do you think this would be a bad play to pay the $1 to see the turn card hoping to have the straight completed on the river? Same thing if you had A5′s for an instance and one of the flop cards is of the same suit, do you think it’s a stupid thing to call a small raise hoping to hit four to a flush on the turn? Any thoughts?
Regards,
Lee
Lee,
In the case there isn’t a flush or a straight draw on board, I am going to slow play my trips and let someone do the betting for me on the flop. If they don’t bet, then I will tend lead out on the turn and probably pick up the pot. Now if the turn doesn’t improve the board, I may again slow play. If I bet out on either the flop or the turn and face a raise, I am raising back as the only thing that is beating me is a pocket pair that has hit a boat or someone with a better ace. If that happens, it happens, but I am playing my set aggressively.
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