Re: preflop equity
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99 and JTs are significantly more playable in this situation than 44 (risk of overset too great) and 67s (increased risk of losing to another flush or 4-flush on the river; more likely to make dummy end of the straight than JTs).
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This is wrong. None of these hands are going to be any more "playable" than the other. The pot has been 3-bet in EP PF. Losing to an overset with 44 is not that much more likely than losing to an overset w/99. 67s has just as much chance of losing to a 4-flush on the river as does JTs.
The major point - that I've yet to see mentioned - is that all 4 of these hands play well in multiway pots. We (per the poll question) find ourselves in a multi-way pot situation and have a chance to cap which:
- inflates that pot size for the times when we'll win; netting us a bigger pot
- gives us some initiative in the hand
- helps to tie people to the pot even further
We don't even need to play that well post-flop to make these situations profitable for us. Posters advocating folding are clearly incorrect. Given the effects that a cap will have on the post-flop play - I think it's pretty easy to cap all of these hands.
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