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ok, you are about to be ripped a new one. WHO CARES if you are behind here. i dont. the prize structure is SOOOO rigged towards first, that you have to play to win the whole time. that means taking a situation like this and using it to double up, even if you are behind. there is 450 dead chips out there. that can add nicely to your stack. read dependent doesnt really matter either. everyone that is worth have a salt grain is shoving AT LEAST 60% of their hands from the small blind. that alone makes K10s an AUTOCALL. tactically, strategically, analytically, whatever really. (like that? had the lly at the end). so anyways, this isnt a flame at all, just my neat lil way of saying that i call and try to suckout on JJ. BWAHAHAHHAHA. holla

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I didn't consider that there were no poor or mediocre players playing the steps. If I had, I would have responded differently. At my level, the last thing I'm used to being with is a table full of players you could count on all being good. I'm positive I've never sat at one of those yet, because of the low levels I play. I would be surprised if many of my tables had even more than half of the players having a decent grasp of the game.

Running the figures through eastbay's calc, I noted that with a range of any pair, any ace or king, Q9, JT, and T9 up, the EV difference in calling versus folding is 1.9%. With someone who won't play a jack or ten-high hand, it only goes down to 1.6%, but with someone pushing any two it goes up to 4.7%.

For someone who won't push a queen-high or less than a high king, the EV of calling plunges to -1.1%, but it sounds like I'm out of the loop on knowing that it's silly to worry about people having pushing standards this high at this level, in this situation.

What can I say, I'm used to getting called by 75-offsuit, often by the same guy who won't push ace-ten, so I space my opportunities out differently.