Quote Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
So you think you should play passively preflop, hit a hand and win.

Do you believe you will hit a hand enough to win?

Do you think you'll be able to extract money well?

How will you draw when the pot will be so small?

What about hands where you have AA and the flop is 832 and you're facing heavy action? Do you put it all in there?

If you limp with AA and it's raised, are you still drawing?

What happens if you limp-call with AA and the flop comes KJ5 and there's some fast action from the original raiser? If he has AK, could you have still won a monster pot if *you* raised preflop? If he has KK, couldn't you have made a monster pot while you were way ahead?

Your KK hand with 2 others. What if the flop was QJx? Can you put all your money in assuming he's got AQ and not be afraid of AA or QQ or QJ?

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Your strategy is weak/tight and will not maximize profit. You'll win, but not much.

You could probably change gears into this "mode" for reasons of playing with your table image but having as your default strategy wouldn't be most profitable.

-'rilla


Well my argument for my style is that when you do play AA or KK hard, you usually dont get many callers and you take blinds or a smaller amount. So yes, fold aces on a QJ10 flop. Poker isnt a game about winning small amounts, its a game about hitting your hand and taking as much as possible. People should not constrain themselves to thinking 'hitting a big hand' to be preflop. See the flop, if you like it, take it.