That was my first hand on this table. Calling on the turn. I dont think i had odds to call. Drawing to a boat or better. Any comments on how i played the hand?
Id say ya played it right preflop and on the flop. When that turn comes and he bets into you he has the straight, which you know. In a perfect world you have 10 outs (8 in real life) plus 3 for the chop unless he has AQ which kills those 3. So lets say you're about a 5 to 1 dog. 40 bucks to call a 148 pot we'll round to 4 to 1. It's a shame that roppon didn't have a bigger stack, because that would have made it almost the right call mathwise. I don't think this is a horrible call on your part, you know what he has and you know you have a good number of outs here. Sure your odds weren't there, but they were close enough to make it a 50/50 decision in my book. Tough break btw, seems something like this always happens to JJ.