To All-In Or Not To All-In?

Common Sense of the Day: Between losing all your chips and losing your small bet, you should choose the latter when you neither have the nuts nor the odds to call!

The Scenario
Player A: Bets $100
Player B: Re-raise All-in to $2100
Player A: Immediately calls

They flip their hole cards, Player B has a set, Player A has a straight draw.

What The Hell?

Player A: “Oh man… I’m so unlucky sometimes.”
Player B: “Unlucky?”
Player A: “I thought you were stealing my bet.”
Player B: “Stealing your what? What the hell?”
Player A: “I could have won.”
Player B: “Yeah, you had like 10% to win… Good call.”

That’s Online Poker For Ya

This happened to me countless times, last time was 5 minutes ago. I have trip Qs (Hole cards: QQ) and the other guy (Hole cards: 67) is on an open-ended straight draw waiting for a 9 or a 5 on a board of 8QA with the flop and the river still to come.

Just Let Go

Sometimes it’s best if you let go. This is especially true if YOU HAVE NOTHING! Why are you calling an all-in, knowing that if you lose you’re getting out of the tourney. This is also especially true if you know that your opponent is a tight player. If you haven’t seen this player raise once in 20 hands and now he’s raising all-in the probability is : HE HAS SOMETHING! Even if he doesn’t… neither do you! Let go!

Common Sense of the Day: Between losing all your chips and losing your small bet, you should choose the latter when you neither have the nuts nor the odds to call!

Until next time,
Good Luck and Good Skill
deBulletMan