I chose to analyze this hand to highlight two points of online poker. The images below will give you a frame by frame happening. We were at 4 handed play I was on the button with QT of clubs. You can flip through the play by play, but I want to give you thoughts on two points in this hand. First being let people let you draw for cheap, don’t try to win it up front. On the flop the BB bet $50 into a $600 flop, with a gut shot straight, one over card, and a flush draw there was an excellent chance I was favored, or at least even in the hand at this point. Aggressive poker says now is an excellent chance to push an pick up the pot at this point, I disagree at this point in the tournament, there is plenty of play left and time to take chances later. Here is my main opinion with this kind of situation, if the person betting is going to give you 1:12 odds to draw at your outs, take it. The odds are likely you don’t have the best hand, odds are also if the person has flopped a Jack of any kind you’re going to get called on your all in so why not early in a tournament take the cheap draw and ensure when you get a lot of chips in you have the best hand.
2nd point on this hand that I think I did poorly looking back at it: Value bet amount the constant debate. I believe the most improved portion of my game is bet amount/value bet to extract the most chips possible out of someone. I also believe the portion of my game I need to work on the most is still this concept. As you can see from looking at this hand I hit the straight on the river the original better checked and I bet $150 into a pot of $800. Here are my thoughts, at this point in the hand I was pretty sure I was up against KJ or AJ with the preflop raise, I knew I could get a call with a reasonable bet my disappointment is that because I hit the gut shot, not the flush which is probably what the other player put me on. The gut shot was less obvious and thus I think I could have gotten more out of this hand
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