Re: 44 on the button
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I kept getting this nagging voice in my head saying, "44 is pretty good heads up. 44 isn't far behind AK."
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Good fold. You should not become results orientated and decide whether your preflop decision was correct or not by what cards fell on the flop.
You are right that 44 is not far behind AK. However, you dont know whether the preflop raiser will have overcards to your small pair or a higher pair. (You are way behind a higher pair).
Also as all the cards on the flop will usually be higher than a 4, you wont know whether the preflop raiser has made a higher pair than you. That will make your small pair a difficult hand to play HU in limit poker.
No-limit would be easier if you were in a position where you decided to just go all in for all your chips, because you would not have any subsequent decisions to make on the later streets.
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