(1/3NL) Pocket 8s first hand at the table
100bb effective
Hero just sat down, first hand being dealt. Everyone is an unknown.
Villain raises UTG $10, pursed his lip
Lmao, come on, there are plenty of bragging posts on here and this aint one of them. Look, i dont think you can say for sure one way or the other from a forum post, and its fine for people to say this should be a fold, because it probably is in a vacuum. BUT, anyone who doesnt know you can get MASSIVE tells when someone shows their hand are people who simply arent looking at th
To add on to this, when I played a lot live I could do this, but it’s not always in a logical way. The thing that happened to me was that sometimes I’d get a feeling and I’d know: “This guy is STRONG.”
I didn’t get it every time, but when I did it was always correct. And I also had to observe to see what each opponent thought “strong” actually meant. But I think most people have some version of this.
A lot of times when I see these “should I fold KK preflop” threads I wonder if that is what’s happening: someone gets that “they are super strong” feeling during a hand but they have KK and are afraid their opponent can be giving off that vibe with a hand weaker than AA. These threads are annoying because we don’t know how to process that feeling online when we aren’t there.
I would just flat preflop.
I'd only bet the flop if I felt comfortable continuing to the incoming check/raise. So if we do, then I guess our plan worked perfectly and obviously snap call. Otherwise I'd check back the flop.
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