Marginal Hand #4 Playing a passive table

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Just so you have a general idea, you're currently showing as much profit with J8s as most people do with TT in that same situation. I can see why you've got a fondness for that hand. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Back to the original subject, though, I think a limp here is marginal at best, and that's if you're Clarkmesiter-ish with your postflop skills. It's certainly not hugely +EV and shouldn't affect your winrate greatly on the plus side if you were to add it, but it could easily affect your winrate negatively if you were to add it and play it poorly postflop, which, OOP, is easy to do.

I fold this and I play a lot more marginal hands than most people. I think in general, playing it here is probably slightly -EV.

I do think it's worthwhile re-evaluating that you really seem to be undervaluing pairs, overvaluing suited cards, and undervaluing position -- bigtime. J8s isn't going to hit enough flops hard that you'll want to be OOP for the remainder of the hand.

Rob