Re: Marginal hand #2 Play or no play
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I don't mind it being raised because I'll usually get more action post flop.
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Not if your opponents are passive. If you bet or raise a passive opponent, they tend to revert to thier passive nature and just call. You might extract 1 extra bet from them, but not more usually. Also, if they are weak they might even fold at some point, actually costing you bets.
In your OP, you said:
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MP2 is LPP, MP3 is LAP, SB and BB are TAP
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...indicating that each opponent is passive postflop. But then later you said:
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I don't get a lot of good reads on opponents
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The action that took place in the hand suggests that your opponents are in fact quite aggressive post flop - at least, they definitely aren't passive.
With the extraordinary aggression displayed by your opponents in this hand, I would change my original recommendation from "Fold, but its close," to "Call for implied odds." You did the right thing, but for the wrong reasons. You made 2 critical mistakes in this hand: 1) You did not have an accurate read on your opponents, and 2) you did not play correctly according to the read you did have. You were lucky in that your mistakes were self-neutralizing, causing you to play the hand correctly.
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