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Posted by: aliengenius at April 19, 2007, 4:22 pm

Topic: New (new to me) betting strategy Forum: Card Chat

Quote: Originally Posted by NineLions

Hmm, Rammer, I wonder if that comes from no concept of pot odds?

I'm thinking that someone who has never heard of pot odds needs something to base their betting on. Preflop it might be the BB (hence minraising), and post flop, bet the pot.

Just a guess, though.

Perhaps he has a ery deep understanding of pot odds (probably not, but he may be playing in such a way anyway).

The concept in play here is both "pot odds" and "implied odds". It seems to me that he is attempting to take away the odds for drawing hands. He is doing this in two ways:

1. Taking away the immediate pot odds by over-betting the pot. A pot sized bet is giving you opponent 2:1 on his money. Over-betting the pot makes his odds even worse.

2. Taking away the implied odds of draws by having a short stack. A lot of the alue of draws comes from what they can reasonably expect to get paid if they hit. Since this guy only has a small amount of money behind there is nothing to get paid off with if they make their hand. Note that the over-bet of the pot also has the effect of shrinking his stack size even more.

This could be a strategy that he came up with to prevent bad beats on his good hands (I was not at all surprised to hear that he had AA in your example). No doubt that if he is primarily a play money player he sees any and all draws call all the time....

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