Overcards

[Cloud]

Hi All,
I have started playing a lot of limit cash poker - doing quite well, and the balance is gradually climbing up. I'm normally confident about how I approach each hand and where I want to go with it - but deal me a hand with two high cards, and then a flop comes with 3, 5 and 8 and it's the one hand where I really don't know where I'm going with it.
I know pot odds and implied pot odds come into play - but post flop it's hard to work these out as any runners could have hit a pair or be playing overcards like myself.
Anyone got any hard and fast rules in this scenario, or any advice would be much appreciated.

[Penelopeys]

Originally Posted by thecloud

Hi All,
I have started playing a lot of limit cash poker - doing quite well, and the balance is gradually climbing up. I'm normally confident about how I approach each hand and where I want to go with it - but deal me a hand with two high cards, and then a flop comes with 3, 5 and 8 and it's the one hand where I really don't know where I'm going with it.
I know pot odds and implied pot odds come into play - but post flop it's hard to work these out as any runners could have hit a pair or be playing overcards like myself.
Anyone got any hard and fast rules in this scenario, or any advice would be much appreciated.

Well...

1st:I assume you would raise preflop... so hopefully noone holds small cards like the ones on the flop...

2nd:If I raised with a big hand preflop I would bet it postflop regardless of what comes on the flop...

3rd: If I am called, I will consider what he calls with... straight possibility, flushpossibility, did he afterall hit a small pair... or did he hit trips...?

4th: I am likely to bet it again after the turn, regardless of the turn card...

5th: If nothing of his presumed wanted cards doesn't show on the river I will bet it again...

Sometimes I win ...sometimes I lose... BUT... I win more often than I lose

GL with it...

[Cloud]

Cheers Pene -
Parts 1 and 2 are generally what I would do anyway - it's when betting again after the flop and my opponent/s betting/calling is where my lack of decisiveness lies - and it is an area where I am probably throwing some money away.
I guessed that maybe I should be a little more aggressive - I was tending to be a caller rather than putting my chips down first and therefore I was showing weakness.

[Penelopeys]

BTW... the above is in NL... Potlimit I know nothing about

...and now I hope I will never meet a PL*er there