Overcards

[Cloud]

Hi All, I have started playing a lot of limit cash poker - doing quite well, and the balance is gradually climbing up. I'm normally confident about how I approach each hand and where I want to go with it - but deal me a hand with two high cards, and then a flop comes with 3, 5 and 8 and it's the one hand where I really don't know where I'm going with it. I know pot odds and implied pot odds come into play - but post flop it's hard to work these out as any runners could have hit a pair or be playing overcards like myself. Anyone got any hard and fast rules in this scenario, or any advice would be much appreciated.

[Penelopeys]

Re: Overcards

Hi All, I have started playing a lot of limit cash poker - doing quite well, and the balance is gradually climbing up. I'm normally confident about how I approach each hand and where I want to go with it - but deal me a hand with two high cards, and then a flop comes with 3, 5 and 8 and it's the one hand where I really don't know where I'm going with it. I know pot odds and implied pot odds come into play - but post flop it's hard to work these out as any runners could have hit a pair or be playing overcards like myself. Anyone got any hard and fast rules in this scenario, or any advice would be much appreciated.

Well... 1st:I assume you would raise preflop... so hopefully noone holds small cards like the ones on the flop... 2nd:If I raised with a big hand preflop I would bet it postflop regardless of what comes on the flop... 3rd: If I am called, I will consider what he calls with... straight possibility, flushpossibility, did he afterall hit a small pair... or did he hit trips...? 4th: I am likely to bet it again after the turn, regardless of the turn card... 5th: If nothing of his presumed wanted cards doesn't show on the river I will bet it again... Sometimes I win ...sometimes I lose... BUT... I win more often than I lose :ok GL with it...