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MOFO's picture
Need advise on playing pocket pairs

No Limit Holdem Tournament • 2 Players

$1.38+$0.12

Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter

BB Hero 1380  
SB ewaaa666 1620  

Effective Stacks: 69bb

Blinds 10/20

Pre-Flop (30, 2 players)

Hero is BB

cTsT

ewaaa666 raises to 40, Hero raises to 160, ewaaa666 calls 120

Flop (320, 2 players)

h9cJc5

Hero goes all-in 1220, ewaaa666 folds

Final Pot: 320

Hero wins 1540 ( won +160 )

ewaaa666 lost -160

RyPac13's picture
Sorry, just fixed your hand

Sorry, just fixed your hand formatting (next time just hit "input format > full html" then hit "disable rich text" and paste your code and hit "save" (or if you want to add comments, hit "enable rich text" then type what you want).
To the hand, don't bet so large, you'll fold a lot of hands that you want to call you (weaker pairs, weak draws).
I would still bet here at the $1 level, as most opponents will call you with 9x, weaker pairs and weak draws. Also, you hold two tens, one is a club, which is all positive. Flush draws lose about 4% equity than if you had no club, and a hand like Q8 now only has 5 outs (20% chance or so) instead of 7 outs (28% chance) against your hand. KQ goes from thinking it might have a 40% shot at beating a jack or a nine (6 pair outs and 4 straight outs) to around a 32% chance (2 straight outs and 6 pair outs).
Make a solid bet that has a reasonable chance of inducing calls or jams from as many of those weaker hands as possible and you should more than makeup for the times the guy has Jx or better, at least at the $1 level.
Something in the 200 chip range is fine for a flop bet here.