[Shillx]

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I push both of them also. If he calls with K8 I'd be happy about it and even with KJ it is not so bad I think, there are too many players left for gambling to be very wrong.

Shillx, what do you base your ideas on? Why is A7 so much worse than A9? And why does Icm and people in general like suited aces so much? Hey, I'll make my own thread about this...

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The reason why is because they don't run well hot&cold against a random hand. When you are pushing just 5BB into a BB with a big stack, he will be getting decent pot odds to call. You also have to consider that you will sometimes get called by the 3 other players that you have to push through. If you get called in one of these spots, you are basically toast. If your hand does make it all the way to the BB, you would like to have something that can race well since having the BB auto call is the worst case scenario for your EV.

KQo is 61.5% against a random hand.
A5o is 57.7%.

So the ideal in spots like this is to have people pre-BB either be too tight or too loose. If you race against the button who calls off 5 BB freely, you are getting 6.5:5 to run them while you are going 5.5:5 when the BB calls. Them playing too tight should be an obvious perk.

Brad