Re: Huge pot, crap cards
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This reasoning comes straight from SSH's protecting your hand. My J was an overcard, and the crappy kicker is a good reason to raise. I also forgot to mention that I thought I may get a free card because my opponents were passive.
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I don't have SSH in front of me, but I think you're misapplying the idea of protection. You want to protect a 'decent but vulnerable' hand. Jack-high is not a decent hand. "Protection" might apply if you had paired the Jack.
I don't know how getting a free card is going to work. If you think you'll get a few cold-callers for your flush draw, and assuming they've connected with the flop in some way (since they're coldcalling) are you sure none of them will bet the turn if you check? Free card plays from BB into a field of eight have to have a microsopic success rate.
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