How To Trap With A Big Poker Hand
I've already told two stories in Chapter 6 (John Bonetti is featured trapping Dan Harrington in one story, on page 127) about how one player trapped another with A-A in the hole. In both stories, the player who was doing the trapping came out smelling like a rose. But trapping with pocket aces or pocket kings (especially kings, because they're vulnerable to a lone ace falling on the flop) can be extremely dangerous. By "trapping" with these hands, I mean just calling one or two bets before the flop, rather than raising or reraising with your hand. By just calling preflop and trapping other players into playing their hands when they ordinarily wouldn't have done this, you're creating a bigger pot, which means you're also risking losing a big pot.
For example, suppose that someone in front of you has raised with Q-Q, and then you decide to just call (smooth-call) with your K-K before the flop. Now someone with [V]"[3 decides to call two bets with his hand, and then the board comes
off H-5H3-EH3-
In this case, you would have won a huge pot from the opponent who had Q-Q if you had three-bet with your hand instead of calling two bets before the flop, because the [V]~0 would have folded before the flop and not hung around in hopes of catching a spade draw on the flop and the (for you) dreaded ace on the river. Imagine the number of bets that you would have won from the Q-Q in this scenario.
But because you decided to trap other players into the pot before the flop, you lost a big pot. Because the 0"[9 flopped the nut flush draw, he was forced to play his hand all the way, and then he hit an ace on the end to beat you.
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