The nice thing about these 2-3 guys is that it is pretty easy to tell when they have it and when they are betting it so if you have employed a reasonably conservative strategy, you can catch a decent 2-way hand and get 3 quarters of the pot....
There was one hand last night between me and Akash where I put him on the nut low....
My hand...
The betting went something like this.... Akash pre-flop straddled the $5/$10 No Limit hand to $30 from 1st position. We're playing six-handed at the time and everyone called.
The flop...
Akash leads out with a $175 bet and I guess you can tell that I really liked this flop. There are a couple of cards that could come that would be M-O-N-S-T-E-R-S..... but I am next to Akash in the betting order and I am pretty certain that he has something like Ax... 3x... so I just smooth call, hoping that someone else will join the fray. I would even be open to accomodating a raise at this point.
We do pick up 3 callers and the the turn...
Akash I guess is wanting to project strength and pushes all-in before the card even gets settled into its spot on the table. Now while I could have asked for a better card, this is still a pretty good one. I HAVE the nut straight, 3rd nut low and nut flush re-draw. Unfortunately Akash's bet was bet was $1,975 and while I believe that we might have picked up one caller at about $1k, I knew that we weren't going to get many more callers once I made my call. Sure enough, Dave tucks his tail betwixt his legs and scanters off to the office to pleasure himself. It's a dirty job and I'm certain that no one else will do it.
So once I make the call, Akash turns over his cards and sure enough... he has the nut low but with nothing else. I think he had something like Ax, 3x, 5x and Jx. And as is usually the case, if you're betting with the nut with no re-draw, the re-draw will be required. And so one of the 2 cards that he definitely didn't want to see sprung up.
The river...
It was a nice card for me though... it left my nut straight in tact and counterfeited Akash's low... so my 4x, 6x took the low and the 9 high straight took the high and I scooped about a $5500 pot.
Feel free to comment, but as always, your read on what you feel the others have is important, I believe that you should have a very good read and perhaps a re-draw or two before you overbet the nut low.
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I hear guys all the time whine and complain about over betting the low side but in some cases I think its justified depending on the players left to act, guys who you know can and will lay down low draws that don't want to get chopped up. However, I don't think, wait, I know that you shouldn't overbet it without re-draws for counterfeit cards and backdoor re-draws for high hand. A lot of this depends on the make up of the table. I think the biggest issue here is playing out of position and being first to act each time. Open shove may work sometimes but most times you're only being called with a better hand/draw so if you're going to shove there I think you should chech raise/re-raise to at least build some equity in the hand and get a feel for where everyone else is at. Maybe a hand like Ax2x3x5x or Ad3c4c6x or something with monsterous redraws for the absolute nut high but then again, I think you should build pots with hands like that instead of take them down then and there.
Cliff's Notes: Never open shove in NLO8 bc you're going to be called and sucked out on...Rule #1 in O8: if you flop the nuts, you're going to get drawed out on every time.
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