Re: 10-25 Pot Limit Holdem Hand
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"If you take it down, that's good too."
It's not really that good - calling a raise with a medium pocket pair relies on impled odds for profit. If you regularly call $100 with sevens and only win $500 dollars when you hit, you're going to lose all your money.
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You're a real "half-empty" kind of guy, eh? Of course, he would not call the $75 (not $100, because he had already called the $25), just hoping to win $500 if he hits. But once you have hit on a well-coordinated board, you should be happy to take it down right there. He could be behind to a straight already, and he is not that much ahead of someone with a straight and flush draw.
Whenever someone calls you, unless they are drawing totally dead, they are getting some equity from the money that you put into the pot at the same time that you are getting equity from the money that they put in. Even if you are gaining more equity than they are, you often show more profit by getting 100% equity in the money that is already in the pot, which is what happens when they fold.
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