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Five handed, single table, have a good chip stack, probably second in chips and I’m on the big blind with Jh-8h. Everyone just called and no one raises. I check.
The flop, 5h, 7h, As.
Player to my right checks. I put a three-quarter pot bet with my flush draw. Fold, fold, fold, back to the first checker who calls me. She’s the small stack, about half of what I have.
At this point I’m putting her on an ace, although she usually would have raised with an pair of ace’s, I’m thinking she’s got a bad kicker and thinks I have an ace as well.
Next card Ah
She puts in a bet, a smallish one, which tells me she got her trips and thinks it’s good. I do have the flush and I figured that’s what she is afraid of. She is one of those newer players who still thinks this backwards logic. She’ll say things like “I only bet a little because I thought you may have the flush”
Anyway, here is how I might played it badly, but I don’t think so. Normal logic says for me to bet big because she might have a higher heart and might catch another on the river, or the fill up if she has trips, so I need to push her out.
The problem with that, she is a new player and, while I might get her to fold a flush draw (and that is debatable), I’m not getting her to fold trips, which is what I was sure she had.
I just call
River – 10c. She bets, I raise, she moves all-in, I call. She has A-10 off, and filled up on the river.
Here was my thought, she is a beginner player who is short stacked and I’m convince, would have played it the same way if she had trips. On the other hand, in hindsight, knowing that if she has trip ace’s and we would probably get all our money in anyway, I might have pushed on the turn, and maybe, just maybe, she might have folded.
