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Sorry, I should have given more info. Villian has been very aggressive and gone all in with very marginal hands where I called before. I figured I was a favorite to take all of his chips if I just flat called. I figured he would make a move with anything. He woke up with Ace Queen, and I did get lucky. Mostly everyone is right, I should have just pushed pre-flop. But, the guy was pushing with 9/3 offsuit, and got lucky to knock out another player. Hope you guys don't berate me too much.

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That may be, but your fives are a coinflip to, say, T6o and most of the rest of the hands your opponent might have. Save the trapping for, like, jacks, where you're probably, you know, actually ahead.

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Trapping with 55 is pretty close to godawful.

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Yup.

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I agree.

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That may be, but your fives are a coinflip to, say, T6o and most of the rest of the hands your opponent might have. Save the trapping for, like, jacks, where you're probably, you know, actually ahead.

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I don't mean to be a nit, but 55 is, like, ahead of T6o. Maybe not by much, but it is like a 54-46 favorite. 55 is a slight favorite over AKs as well. Against villain's probable range I think he is ahead with 55 more than half the time. The point, though, is he picks up so much more equity by pushing because of the probability that villain may fold hands that we are only slightly ahead of and we pick up 1,500 chips when he does.

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That may be, but your fives are a coinflip to, say, T6o and most of the rest of the hands your opponent might have. Save the trapping for, like, jacks, where you're probably, you know, actually ahead.

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I don't mean to be a nit, but 55 is, like, ahead of T6o. Maybe not by much, but it is like a 54-46 favorite. 55 is a slight favorite over AKs as well. Against villain's probable range I think he is ahead with 55 more than half the time. The point, though, is he picks up so much more equity by pushing because of the probability that villain may fold hands that we are only slightly ahead of and we pick up 1,500 chips when he does.

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55/45 situations fall within the realm of coinflips for the purposes of our discussion. Hero picked up on the point though. That trapping with 55 is horrible.