Titan Poker One of the comforting features of Stud is that most of your opponents will exhibit fairly predictable betting patterns. In Hold’em, for example, even the fishiest players can and occasionally will make an exotic play. But Stud players, for whatever reason, are cut from a different cloth. If you’ve seen a player check-raise an opponent when he makes a big two pair, the odds are very good that he’ll make that same play the next time the situation permits. By contrast, if you haven’t seen him make this play then he probably doesn’t have that move in his arsenal. Titan Poker bonus
EXAMPLE
You’ve been in a game for a few hours, and in that time you’ve noticed that a certain player trends towards check-raising when he makes a strong two pair hand. On fifth street you have the(J♠ 4♣)and your opponent’s board shows the 9* 5 A –. Your opponent bets into you. What’s your play?
I would strongly consider playing on here. This lead bet looks like a semi-bluff, and if he’s been check-raising thus far in the session it seems reasonable to assume that he would attempt the same move here. There are some other factors which you need to weigh – the’liveness’of both you and your opponent’s board, whether your opponent is the type who would have made it this far with nothing else but a pair of nines, and so forth – but you should certainly make sure that your observations regarding this opponent’s past betting behaviour are factored in to your decision making. just folding here because you’re drawing slim against aces up would be a big mistake. Titan Poker Code bonus
