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Old 12-04-2005, 05:58 PM
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Default Re: The old AK problem

And how are there 7 folds if it's 9-handed to begin with? [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

Honestly, what to do in this situation varies with reads (if any) on your opponent and as you vary your own play. You should be varying your play, by the way, even at 2/4.

Generally speaking, you shouldn't be folding in a scenario like this--SB is betting out with an UI pocket pair less than K or with something like J9s (or on a bluff with a worse ace or less) far too often to be folding while getting 7:1 & closing the action. So the question becomes whether to raise or call.

You should be using the raise here fairly frequently, especially if your table image is rock solid and/or SB has been really LAGgy & prone to bizarre bluff attempts. However, so many players have seen the raise for the free card play here that you are going to be 3-bet or stop & go'd on a blank turn pretty often. So just calling should be an option you use often, too, especially when SB is the type of player who wouldn't be betting out here without a made hand of some sort (and wouldn't fold if you showed strength).
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