Re: Hold\'em Preflop Strategy According to Abdul
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So our advice is to consider how well your opponents (in the pot) play. If they are awful and come with lots of weak hands, you lose too much by not raising before the flop.
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The problem with weak loose players is that, when you raise with AQ, they will pretty much still call. And once they see the flop and like what they see, they will have the proper pot/implied odds to go "all the way."
Also, raising with big hands kind of gives away what you hold, and according to the fundamental theorem of poker, you lose when your opponents know your cards. So I think in loose games, it's not too terrible to just call pre-flop and fold if the flop misses you. After all, it is much easier to fold to just one bet than two.
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