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Old 18-05-2008, 17:03   #10 (permalink)
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Default Re: Harrington on Cash

Looking forward to your comments Mick - hopefully we can get some discussion going on the key concepts

One thing I've always struggled with:

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Originally Posted by Page68
If you have a pair of tens against two opponents with some action before the flop, and the flop comes Queen, Jack, Ten, all one suit, you have a set, but you dont want to play a big pot with this hand. You've got a small hand for the situation and you'd be happy to end the hand right there.
You have two contradictory goals. Firstly, you want to control the size of the pot (implying check-call or small bets). Secondly though you want to end the hand right there (implying a big bet). So what's your action here? (talking very generally - I know there are no stack sizes, details on the players etc)
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