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How should I play hands where I miss the flop but have been the only pre flop raise? Assume blinds of $1/$3, in a cash game, for these examples:
Early position: I have AQ suited and I make it $10, two people behind me call, the flop comes K-7-6 rainbow.
Middle position: I have KQ suited and I make it $10, one calls after me and one person in early position calls too. The flop comes A-7-6 suited.
Late position: I have KQ off, I make it $10, two others call. The flop comes A-7-6 rainbow and the first person checks, the middle person bets. (Or in a twist, how much should I bet if it checks around to me?)
I’d like to know how I best handle these situations and why? I’m a tight player who plays few hands, I raise more than 50% of the time pre flop. My ends are mostly good quality. And then I get stuck because I assume people aren’t calling 3x raises with junk, so I don’t want to throw away good money on a hand when I miss the pre flop, especially when I’m not heads up and that’s a chance someone else caught a piece of the board. I hope someone can help me be less fishy
Standard for live cash poker.
Check/fold first hand.
check/fold second hand
check/fold last hand.
Live poker cash games is about playing tight. Tournaments in the beginning are about playing tight and then playing loose towards the end. With those hands in a tournament in the later stages you might go all in preflop or on the flop. Probably never ever doing that in a cash game or early in a mtt when stacks are deep.
Are you able to count stack sizes live? How about counting how many big blinds you have? This is important for tournaments knowing how many big blinds you have.
example
1000/2000 20000 stack.
you have 10 big blinds since 20000 stack size /2000 BB = 10.
