07 January 2011

Strong hand, small pot - Part 2: The mean hand

Some amateurs believe that hands can only win small pots with strong. That would mean of course that big pots with weak hands are won only. 

The rationale goes something like this:

"Increases and get called pre-flop is only with good cards, so more likely to hit with low cards and the flop to crack the good hands."

Although this is a logic that is based on a half-truth and at the border of the ridiculous is but the concept of weak hand, big pot is not as far-fetched. It is quite possible to scenarios in which the concept applies exactly.