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Old 09-30-2005, 09:33 PM
TBone TBone is offline
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Default Re: AQ hand - is this standard?

Yes, you should raise preflop. You almost certainly have the best hand. The hand becomes much easier to play postflop when you raise preflop. You've taken control of the hand by raising preflop.

This is a very draw heavy flop. SB probably does not bet into you if you raise preflop. You can then make a continuation bet on the flop, hoping to get at least one fold, betting your overcards and gutshot. The problem with raising the flop when you have big cards is noone thinks you have big cards because you didn't raise preflop. So, your raise here is really serving no real purpose, (other than costing you more money) especially on such a draw heavy board when you yourself are drawing to less outs than the villians.

Playing big cards passively preflop is not a good way to make money at micro limit poker.

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