$6.6 NL HE STT: Learn from the opponents - how to (also not) play a combodraw

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I recently shared a hand, which illustrated the problem with calling off even a 15 out draw on the turn in a multiway pot on a paired board. Here is another example of how not a play a combodraw, this time a 12 out draw. On the turn I guess, the opponent was trying to represent, that he hit trip J´s, but the issue with this is, I started the hand with just 17BB, and then I am not folding top pair, just because second pair became trips. So he only get me to basically fold out air.

And also like in the other hand a paired board is just fundamentally bad for any draw, and on the turn there is only one more chance to hit. So if you take the passive line and check-call the flop, usually you should check again on the turn and basically hope, the opponent checks back, or that you get a price to continue. In this case I would say, that even to a half pot sized bet his draw is probably a check-fold on the turn, when the board has paired, and he is not even drawing to the nut flush either. There are just to many ways for him to still be beat, even when he does improve on the river.

If he wanted to take the aggressive route with this hand, then the time to do it would have been on the flop. He could have check-raised small with intention to call it off if jammed on. Or he could have check-jammed. This would be an overbet, but its not completely unreasonable to do that, when the opponent start with 17BB, and the board is as wet as this one. He can do that in a balanced way, where he check-jam some strong draws and also some strong made hands, that benefit from protection.

 
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