Is +EV?
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09-05-2005 06:30 PM
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Calling up to 8xBB preflop with any pocket pair in ringIs +EV? |
09-05-2005 06:47 PM
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09-05-2005 07:10 PM
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I usually will only call up to 4xBB with any PP 55+ (I usually don't have 22-44 in the right position to even still be holding them when the raise takes place) | |
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09-05-2005 08:05 PM
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09-05-2005 09:57 PM
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09-05-2005 10:04 PM
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09-05-2005 10:31 PM
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Like Laeelin said, 8BBs is too much to be regularly calling with small-medium PP in most cases. Unless you're playing $50 NL or below, decent players simply won't pay you off often enough to make this +EV. Also, unless there is considerable action in front of the raiser, 8BBs is a very large raise pre-flop. I think a raise this large would be more likely to be a strong yet vulnerable hand such as KK, QQ, JJ, AKs, AKo... than it is AA. It's much harder to win a big pot off of someone that misses with AK and you hit a set than it is with someone that has AA. | |
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09-06-2005 02:43 AM
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09-06-2005 10:29 AM
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I'm not a big math guy, but I can say that on Party my standard preflop raise on 25NL is 8-12xBB. 25¢ blinds, and my standard raise is $2-$3 with any hand I'm raising. I will call that with a pocket pair. Reason being that often you're against an unmade hand, and 55 can win unimproved. | |
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09-06-2005 11:06 AM
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09-06-2005 12:41 PM
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09-08-2005 10:10 AM
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09-08-2005 10:27 AM
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I dont think that the size of the raise relative to the blind is the issue with taking small pocket pairs to the flop. It's the size of the smallest of the stacks of the players involved. I will call any raise if its less than 10% of my chips or villains chips, whoever has less, from an aggressive villain. From a tighter villain, 5% because they are harder to destack when they hold QQ/KK/AA and you hit your set. |
09-08-2005 10:31 AM
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09-08-2005 06:09 PM
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I think above all else it depends on the stack size of the guy betting the 8x BB. | |
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09-09-2005 04:18 PM
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Rondavu, |
09-10-2005 06:48 AM
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09-10-2005 06:53 AM
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09-10-2005 06:59 AM
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