How Big Does A Draw Have To Be?

Originally Posted by Lukie

Originally Posted by EasyT

How bad is this all-in call? Good/Fair/Bad/Rediculous.

I think the min-raise on the flop was ridiculous. If you are going to raise this hand, raise it harder- it's unlikely that your opponent is going to fold to a min-raise here. And it's not like you are trying to build the pot with a monster by min-raising here (not that I recommend doing that). If you raise harder and he still comes over the top, then you are probably going to have to call that. As it was played, I think the call was ok. In this situation though you are trying to get your money in first, which is another reason you want to raise harder here if that is what you are going to do.

I'm going to respectfully disagree. I want to try to take control of this hand cheaply. It didn't work here because of his holdings, but this works ALL THE TIME at NL50/NL100. They'll call and then check to you 40% of the time on the turn and you can bet hard or take a free card, depending.

I almost never flat-call a draw. Usually I fold them, but if not, a small raise disguises your hand, eliminates the riff-raff, and gets you information about how much someone likes his hand. This draw was good enough for the raise here.

I just didn't listen to the information I got in response.

Which is my question: How BAD a call is this? I know it's not a GOOD call. So far it seems like there's differing opinions. I was sorta looking for some math genius to figure out how many times/100 I win this confrontation.

If it helps, my opponent has an overpair, and not a set. All my outs are clean.

EasyT