firstly, tourney and cash games. situations differ.
if it's tourney. it's crucial to know what stage of the tourney.
eg, if it's beginning of the tourney, i'd lay it down right away. no need to get involved. the proportion of the pot to the current stacks is too low for that pot to be crucial.
middle stages. depends on stack and the aggression of the opponent.
stacks of you and your opponent also matter.
if both of you are big stacks, no need to get involved.
one thing u fail to take into account is that poker is a game of position.
whether you are playing cash games or tourneys, position is very important.
your hand also affects the significance of playing in your position.
hand like KQs from UTG (assuming fulll table) is a bad idea.
if u are going to raise it up, raise it up to 4x. no need to raise it up to 5x since it's not that great a hand. but 3x is a bad idea from UTG as u are giving better odds for your opponent to call. Unless you are good at reading the players and are good at playing post flop, raise bigger.
why is it bad to play hands from out of position? basically, ur raise will most likely be called by someone who will end up acting after you on the flop.
that leaves you to act before them on the flop. this means it will be more harder for you to get information on your opponents hand.
if u face a raise on your flop bet, it's hard to know where u stand. if he just flat calls you, what will be your line on the turn?
basically when playing out of position (ie acting first on flop/T/R), u want to try and keep the pot small. especially with a marginal hand like top pair second kicker.
i like your 2/3 pot bet on the flop, seeing as it is quite a dry board
in this situation, i'd fold to a bigger raise if the stacks were deeper. if either of you is short stacked i'd have to call (assuming it's tourney).
i'm assuming that your opponent could be holding a set seeing as the boards quite dry and its his only likely holding
but there's not enough information to deduce to a single hand.  |