Re: Resistance is Useless
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One particularly annoying feature of this forum is the habit of multiple posters pointing their grubby fingers and saying _strike down the abomination of nature_.
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Amen. Especially since they are usually wrong as they are here. The dogmatism about preflop play in this forum is appalling. Limit hold'em is a much more complicated game then many posters seem to believe. If you can't call in this situation you are admitting that you only know one way to play this hand. That makes you much too readable. Calling to set up a postflop raise is a perfectly good way to play versus this opponent.
The problem with this hand is that the totality is wrong. It's one thing to defer the raise and quite another to never raise. You let him off too cheap. The worst that was going to happen after a raise on the flop or turn was that he might get away from a hand with outs. You could have profitably raised either street. But waiting to checkraise the river is fine if you know you can get away with it.
Since the river was your last chance I pronounce it wrong. The previous three calls are only mistakes because you didn't follow them up properly.
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