Re: On the Edge - IX
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I liked all of the play postflop, but Im not a fan of the preflop raise with trash for two reasons:
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By the way, I should stress, lest it not be apparent, that I'm certainly not saying that my hand is another that should be added to David and Mason's Group 1 holdings.
Rather, as per the article I quoted in this article, I was rather employing (rightly or wrongly) what I dubbed The Mason Move, where he was in this same situation (a post to his right, blinds to his left) and he raised with "trash."
While I certainly was more liberal with my raises in these spots before, this would've been an auto-fold before that article for precisely the thinking you suggest.
And perhaps my 3-for-3 sample size is insignificant (it is) but I think it may be a strategy that, while it doesn't come up much (I have only had the "perfect" opportunity to do this three times in the, approximate, 30,000 live hands I've played this year) can be effective, if you can get away from it if you're obviously going to lose.
Barron Vangor Toth
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