Re: preflop equity
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I said 100,000's of hands, because this situation happens at most maybe 1 in 1000 hands, so that would be a sample size of 100. I actually have not ever seen this situation in 50,000 hands, which is why I said this was absurd to begin with.
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Situations similar to this happen all the time. One of the important points in this thread is that a small percentage edge becomes quite large when magnified with a lot of opponents.
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Like if 55 is included instead of 22, then 44 goes down even more whereas 99 doesn't by so much.
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Yeah, good point. I put 44 in PokerStove against 3 hands: 77, 54, 43. Turns out that 44 only has 2% equity, while 99 has 57% equity against these same hands. I used to think that if there was a raise and two cold calls from donks that would CC total crap like 43, then I'd be OK calling from the blind w/ 44. From now on I'm mucking 44 but raising w/ 99 in this situation.
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