Playing in my home game last night. I had been getting pocket pair after pocket pair. The only pocket pair I had scooped a pot with was 10 10 and only because of some pre flop and post flop aggression even after two overs came out on the flop. Anyway, I was not doing very well with my pocket pairs. At one point I looked down at 88 in middle position. I limped as did the remaining six of seven players. Stakes are 1/2 and I had about 113.00 in front of me before the flop. Flop comes out 897 rainbow. My table image is tight passive with aggression only when I have made a hand or an occasional bluff which usually gets most of the table to fold to most of my bets. If I get a call, the other player usually has a great hand. It was checked to me and I led out with a 14.00 bet to a 14.00 pot. Folded around to the player on my right who raised it 50.00 on top. I immediately put him on a flopped straight, either 10J or 56. The thought crossed my mind that he might have a set of 9's but that didn't feel right so I went with the straight.
Here is how I thought out my decision. First of all I know that I am beat as the cards lie. He has a straight, no card that comes on the turn or the river will improve his hand in regards to mine. I currently have seven outs to beat his hand (six outs for the boat plus one out for quads). Any card on the turn will increase my outs by three, giving me 10 outs total to beat him on the river. I also know that if I call the 50.00 I am either going all in after the turn or he is going to put me all in after the turn so I would be pot committed if I called.
I called the 50.00 raise which put the pot at 142.00. The turn comes an Ace. My opponent bets out 50.00 which covers my 47.00, I call immediately. He knows that I know what hand he has as he turns over his 56. He is ahead with one card to go. The river brings a nine giving me a full house and a nice little double up.
Bad call? My argument is that I was somewhat short stacked and calculated my implied odds as well as my pot odds for the hand.
pjrnemtp
Your right, but he wasn't going to get pushed off the pot. The decision to call was based on the implied pot odds that I was getting if I did hit the boat. As soon as the Ace hit the turn he threw the 50.00 in the pot which I knew was going to happen. I was short-stacked (in my mind) though not in relative terms with the rest of the table. I guess I felt that the decision to call was commitment to risk my whole stack or not which is why I phrased it the way I did.