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On a dry board with an AA-QQ overpair or ace TPTK, how does one avoid being beaten by a set? This a huge weakness for me.
The only hint is villain will 'stay with you' to the river and his turn/river bet is usually large.
So do I fold aces to a large river bet on a dry board, as I'm often facing a set??
I guess any one-pair is a 'weak' hand and should be downgraded in its strength.
as others have said it depends as it always does in poker on your opponent action on all streets preflop action tabvle dynamaics history etc and stack sizes
but dont know if this helps much but against good/not clueless opponents bet it like you would a top pair dont always play for stacks if a fish just go ham and get it in and if they happen to have a good hand so what the likilihood of it when/if they play a too wide range is not often, but with others yh pot control it and maybe even check call a street like say you 3bet and get called size your bet appropriately on the flop and turn depending on the board texture and what range you think there on, on turn if your in position and they check it to you after calling maybe check it back then value bet the river appropriately on a safe card and bluff catch a raise size dependant, but try define their range and what there calling with to begin with, i dont know hope that helps some what if you get what im saying pot control it like any other top pair particularly if your opponents tricky or not straight forward, some opponents dont slow play ****, also if you got a big pair and say the tables tight so lots of pots go and play heads up you dont always need to 3bet it being serious (think sometimes 3betting pre puts some people in committed mindframe even when their bluffing if has done me in past and also ive had people bet 3bet ak then barrel 3streets for stacks with there ak regardless of the board texture) if you got position on the individual occasionally just flat it as you already have position (and i actually think it can help you get more value occasionally as it makes it harder for them to put you on a hand if your sometimes 3betting sometimes flatting premium pocket pairs, if out of position id raise though as you want to have initiative going to the flop also if fair few callers and looking to be a multiway flop again raise that **** up pot raise too you dont want to bloat it then still be going multiway to the flop, also yh other than sets just dont get stupid sticky with overpairs sometimes just gotta muck em and wait for a spot your more sure of where the **** you are in the hand its my little default rule from now on if it dont feel right i fold (i know your not meant to go off gut feelings but its more err memory recall/pattern recognition of similar spots in the past and if the frequency/precentage of the time of me being ****ed/behind against that sort of opponent is too high it can be better to just fold conserve some chips maybe fold the best hand sometimes but still come out ahead overall (thinking lingterm after all as its a longterm game poker after all) anyway thats my possibly incoherent ramblings on it from my personal experiences getting stacked against sets.
short answer fish just play for stacks within reason
thinking player sometime play for stacks sometimes control the pot/action
good luck out there
unless on my table of course.