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www.32redpoker.com – In a PLO tournament I found myself dealt the following, rather interesting hand. My hole cards were (8s,8d,9d,10s). After calling a fairly small preflop raise, the flop then came down to give me another conundrum, (8h,9c,Jd). This flop was about as interesting as it could get without having flopped a completed hand, and the fact that there was no flush draw available either, gave me cause to open with a small raise. The reason I did this, was firstly to show some interest in the pot to my single opponent to try and sound out whether he had flopped a bigger set, or more likely if he reraised, the straight.

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I was hoping above all else, that if he did have the more worrying hand of the straight, he would be foolish enough to smooth call and let me see the turn cheaply. Unfortunately, he moved all in and I immediately felt he must have the straight. On the positive side though, that meant if the board paired I would almost certainly win the rather large pot that was building. Either way, I felt I had to call as I had quite a portion of chips commited already. My opponent showed his (Q,10,x,x) for the top straight, and sadly, no help arrived.

Perhaps the right choice may have been to fold in that position, but personally, I knew I would have a very large chip lead if I won the pot and could go on to make it to the money, and probably the final table without too much trouble. But the point was of course, I wasn’t playing to try and coast to the money when I called, I was playing to give myself a big chip lead and a shot at winning the tournament. I wouldn’t make exceptionally loose calls simply for this reason, but I felt that my open ended straight draw with a set, was enough to gamble with. www.32redpoker.com

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