Re: Pre flop play question
Raise?!? No way, call is mandatory. If these people are ANY kind of players what so ever, what do the limpers UTG and UTG+1 have that you are favored against? Let alone what anyone else has, about the only spread you like with those two hands is KQs and TT. Unless the table is awful, there is no way you have equity to raise. Happily call with position, be elated when you hit aces up or better, and curse your bad luck when you are outkicked or run into a set.
Still think you have raise equity? Card Player only allows for up to five hands, but I think this will prove the point.
UTG--KQs--23.9% to win preflop
UTG+1--TT--20.9%
MP-- 87s--20.8%
CO-- 33--15%
hero--AJo--19.4%
Note, this is a scenario against 4 other players where you are NOT dominated--no overpairs, and no AK or AQ..., and you are STILL no better than 4:1 to win. Be VERY careful in these situations, the hand LOOKS good, but we all know from our homework that unsuited, high cards GIVE implied odds in multiway pots, something not calculated in just the preflop numbers.
On second thought, you could do worse than folding here [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
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