I play marginal connected unsuited crap in the BB

[tiltaholic]

10 handed.

"hero" has 76o in the big bling.

A (15/8) tight-aggressive player (solid postflop, but a little weak) open raises from UTG+2. A really bad loose passive player cold calls in MP2. The poster in the CO folds. SB folds.

Hero gets 6.5:1 - and calls.

Is this bad?

[Entity]

A tad bit too loose for my tastes (I'd like about 8.5-9:1), but it's better than calling with QJo.

Rob

[numeri]

I'd love to see another player in. The only good thing happening here is we have nice relative position if we do make something on the flop.

I was reading about these hands the other day. (in HEPFAP?) One nice thing about hitting our hand is that it will most likely miss UTG+2.

That said, I don't think I call here. Another caller and I might.

[tiltaholic]

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A tad bit too loose for my tastes (I'd like about 8.5-9:1), but it's better than calling with QJo.

Rob

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i've been thinking 98o is a much easier call and for some reason 87o is as well, but i'm getting concerned with T9o. Do you think T9o is similar enough to QJo to muck it?

[car ramrod]

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A tad bit too loose for my tastes

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enough said, if Entity ain't playing it, I'm not. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

I would like one more caller in there. But like you said, its not a dominated hand, so you go that going for ya.

[numeri]

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i've been thinking 98o is a much easier call and for some reason 87o is as well, but i'm getting concerned with T9o. Do you think T9o is similar enough to QJo to muck it?

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I think we'd see 99+, AJs+, and KJs+ here most often. With that range in mind, T9 seems much safer than than QJ.

[Marquis]

"Hi, my name is tiltaholic and I play marginal connected unsuited crap in the BB."

Not to nitpick, but I think you need you need to write the .5 off as rake and your odds are really 6:1. Unless you're playing 30/60 or something.

[imported_The Vibesman]

Ideally you'd be getting a bit better odds, but I don't mind this as long as you take the tack of minimizing your losses after the flop as much as possible (I know, Hey Thanks Captain Obvious!)

[tiltaholic]

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"Hi, my name is tiltaholic and I play marginal connected unsuited crap in the BB."

Not to nitpick, but I think you need you need to write the .5 off as rake and your odds are really 6:1. Unless you're playing 30/60 or something.

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fine. whatever. as long as we agree that 54o is an automatic 3-bet. the results don't lie...

[Marquis]

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fine. whatever. as long as we agree that 54o is an automatic 3-bet. the results don't lie...

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Zing! And the Canadian Army surrenders.

Nice job hijacking your own thread.

[scott111]

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..but it's better than calling with QJo.

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Are you saying that it's better to call with 76o than QJo in this situation? If so, then you just blew my mind. I would call QJo and fold 76o, so I'm obviously missing a key concept here....

[car ramrod]

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Are you saying that it's better to call with 76o than QJo in this situation? If so, then you just blew my mind. I would call QJo and fold 76o, so I'm obviously missing a key concept here....


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QJ is a lot more likely to be a dominated hand against a pfr than 76