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Old 12-31-2003, 12:19 PM
Ed Miller Ed Miller is offline
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Default Re: A3 Suited on Botton...Opinions needed

If there is a bet to you besides the 1 in 10 times you flop your flush draw (which you will still only make 1/3 of the time) you must fold, as you clearly don't have the best hand.

That's just not true. People bet lots of stuff besides top pair. Against many bettors, I would raise with a pair of aces, not fold.

If it is checked to you, whether you pair your ace is irrelevant, you will likely be able to steal the pot with any two cards. If you are called by either limper, than your hand is probably no good anyway, even with your ace. A limper without an ace will usually fold when an Ace flops.

That is also just plain not true.

1) If it is checked to you, you can't just count on stealing the pot
2) If you are called, it will often be by bottom or middle pair, or worse, and you can bet your ace for value the whole way

3. 4 6 is easy to get rid of, and will pay you off more when it hits than your lone pair of aces.

Well, 64s is easy to get rid of... but getting rid of hands doesn't make money. I don't know why you think spiking a four or six will get you paid off better than a "lone pair of aces."

Spiking an ace with A3s is MUCH more likely to make you a winner than spiking a four or six with 64s. Bottom line. That's why A3s is considered to be a "better hand" than 64s. It's not a collective lapse of judgement that people think A3s is better. It is better. Just like JJ is a "better hand" than A3s.

People aren't taking you seriously because what you are saying is just plain wrong. Don't mean to be rude, but it's true.
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