Sets should be banned! (1 Viewer)

[Jambine]

What this indicates to me is that you don't have a standard raise size pre flop. And overbetting the flop is a good way to cause people to fold a lot of hands that you probably best unless that player will just give it all areas with just Top Pair.

Exactly. You're only a big favorite heads up. Too much action and AA, KK get crushed...... and it's usually expensive

 

[CHP TD]

[ a set is a pocket pair making the set on the board wirh the 3rd card, trips is one card in your hand with the other two paired on the board
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and they are all 3 of a kind. I once heard a guy say when 3 of a kind came down on the flop. "wow look its a set board" Ugh...

 

[legonick]

What this indicates to me is that you don't have a standard raise size pre flop. And overbetting the flop is a good way to cause people to fold a lot of hands that you probably best unless that player will just give it all areas with just Top Pair.

If all you care about is playing recreationally, then that's cool. Buy if you want to discuss hands in a serious way with people that might be able to help, you will need to keep track of things like:

Positions
Blind size
Stack sizes of all involved players
Pot size
Bet size

Could he not have had all the other flopped sets? Was there a straight draw possible?

Without all the information I spoke about in my previous post (including exact cards on flop and turn), it's hard to know if you should have kept the pot smaller or if this was just a bound to happen cooler.

Yeah my bet sizing needs work. Do you recommend a standard raise size in STTs, x number of BBs?

I'll keep track of that information for next time for sure!

 

[Legend5555]

Yeah my bet sizing needs work. Do you recommend a standard raise size in STTs, x number of BBs?

I'll keep track of that information for next time for sure!

You should have a standard raise size pre whether it's cash or tournament. There can be some exceptions if you know the players really well and you don't think they will counter you. In tournaments where the stacks are shorter, 2-2.5x is kind of the standard. But if you aren't comfortable playing post flop, you can use a bigger sizing like 3x.

If this was a single table tournament, then most likely the stacks were short enough (under 30bb) that you weren't going to be able to help but go broke in this spot. Imagine you had 30bb and raised to 3bb pre and got called by someone not in the blinds. Pot is now 7.5bb. You bet pot and they shove all in. So you only have 19.5bb left and the pot is now 45bb. You can't fold for only 19.5bb more there.