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Milking Flopped Quads It's hard enough to get paid for a top hand in a tight middle stakes game let alone getting paid having the nuts. Below is an example of play to maximize potential payoff from the opponents for my monster. It's VERY important to have a read on your opponents and I use POKER-EDGE to help me keep up with all my opponents stats at the table. It makes my decision making process a lot more uniform AND succesful. Player to my right is TAG, I was hoping to see a cheap flop here and actually [gulp] limp in. He raised to 14, std and no info really, could be anything. But he has overcards or better to be sure based on his stats. 14 was the cheapest I would see this flop for and if those to act after raised, I would have to bail out.
I flopped quads and was trying to figure how to get the maximum value for this hand when he bet into me. That caught me off guard but checking his cBet stat I saw it's about 50% possible he just is cBetting here, a raise will cause him to fold. So I waited to the buzzer and called. (It helped that I was caught on a bluff couple hands back at turn and villain called chasing and rivering his str8 so it made me look stupid. Not sure if they read it as a bluff gone bad or I was an idiot thinking my hi cards were good on the rag board )
Turn is nothing, he bets out again. I think for a bit then reraise all in figureing he'll have to call for the $12 more just like I did for the $10 more in my failed bluff. Sure enough, he was pushing with overcards figuring I was on the draw and kept missing.
It's hard to get paid for quads, but it's easier if you have position and a TAG or LAG to your right. Just don't scare them off by getting too pushy. If he checked at all during this I would have bet out some small amount to see if I could aggravate him into pushing back or he's on the draw and it's worth it pot odds to chase for him. Here is the playout of the hand: |
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