Comments on: Mailbag: Multiway Pots https://www.thinkingpoker.net/2012/01/mailbag-multiway-pots/ Weekly poker podcast hosted by Andrew Brokos and Nate Meyvis featuring interviews with famous and behind-the-scenes figures from the poker world as well as an in-depth poker strategy segment. Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:18:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Wat? https://www.thinkingpoker.net/2012/01/mailbag-multiway-pots/#comment-23874 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:16:18 +0000 http://www.thinkingpoker.net/?p=8269#comment-23874 Andrew, thank you for writing this. I often find HU much more difficult than multi-way pots, precisely because in multi-way pots there is usually so much more information available vis-a-vi the other players and their actions.

Example from a loose $1-2 game I was in recently:

Tricky player raises to $7 UTG. two loose player call, I call with 22, and the BB calls.

Flop:
2d6s8s

Original raiser bets $15, two calls, and I raise to $60 (230 behind). BB calls and the original raiser shoves for $320. Two folds and it is back to me.

Given all the information, I figure that my bottom set is no good, and fold. The BB calls with 9s10s and the original better shows a set of 8s.

Had this been a heads-up hand, I don’t think I could have folded, but the multi-pot action gave me enough information to correctly throw away the hand.

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