Taking down the pot early
Say you raise preflop with AK. You get
one or two callers and the flop comes K74 rainbow. You bet say a 2/3 to
a full pot. Both calls.
Why did the villains called the preflop
raise in the first place? Do they call every raise or only when they have
something good?
Why did they call you on the flop?
Do you almost always c-bet on the flop or do you only bet when you hit
something?
What type of hands would the villains
call the flop bet with? Would they raise with two pair or more, would they
raise a draw? Would they fold if they have less than any of the above?
Would they call down to the river with any two cards?
How big are the stacks?
What do they think you have, based
on this play and earlier hands?
How are you going to continue on
the turn and river when something that completes a draw comes. When a blank
comes?
This things and much, much more should
be constantly going through your mind every single hand you play.
It's not easy, but you really have
to think about what you and the other players are doing and act accordingly.
Then you have to decide if you are going to fold, call or raise. And if
you decide to bet: bet the amount that accomplishes your goal for the given
hand. No more, no less.
I am tired so I write way too much
instead of trying to answer your question in a simple way :-)
Don't fall in love with your two
cards! In my experience TPTK and similar hands, shouldn't be played as
the nuts. I have lost a LOT of money on those hands, before I realized
that people very rarely make big raises against the preflop raiser(me)
on a board where it's obvious that I have TPTK or maybe even an overpair.
If I meet too much resistance with a TPTK-kind of hand without much additional
outs, and I have no specific reads that tells me that the villain is a
complete idiot, I'll try to get out and wait for a better situation. This
have saved me a lot of money.
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