When to Fold Big Pairs
Category: Poker
Big pairs are always difficult to get away from for some players at www.pacificpocker.com.
After waiting so long to look dow at a big pair, a player might feel compelled to hang on to it at all costs. There are many situations I feel, when a player should look to force an opponent to go all in to call, either on, or before the flop, rather than give them a chance to make a bigger hand.
But too often they do not raise strongly enough for fear of making their opponent fold at pacificpocker.com. I have even seen some online poker players make a minimum raise preflop allowing four other players into a pot, then bemoan their bad luck when they lose to something like a (J,8) making a two pair.
That’s not bad luck, that’s bad play at www.pacificpocker.com. In the same way, calling raises with (A,A) would be bad play on a board of four hearts with straight possibilities.
Sometimes the obvious fact that they have gone behind in a poker hand can elude some less experienced players, and they end up losing all their chips because they couldn’t get away from a big pair.
If you genuinely feel you are beaten in this scenario, you have to detach yourself from the disappointment of having waited for a big pair and lost with them. If your reads tell you that you are behind in a hand you must trust them and not try and force the issue when you know the hand is lost. Just fold the hand and get on with the next.
You should never consider yourself tied to a hand just because you waited so long for it. Discretion as they say, is the better part of valour.