Starting the "suited connectors suck" campaign........

[DanTheCardMan]

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judging from your river check holding 97 on a board of JJ77x after everyone kept checking and calling to you, you don't play well post-flop, so you DEFINITELY shouldn't be making these moves.

-EV is -EV, whether you do it occasionally or all the time. Raising 97s isn't in MP a good move unless you are against the tightest players.

you are overly cocky, you think you know it all, you come here, post a hand you botched terribly, then you start talking about how making these variance moves with medium 1 and 2 gaps is a smart play.

I'm really not trying to be a dick. when I came here I thought I was good. then I realized how crappy I was. hopefully you'll realize this too, because otherwise you're going to lose all your money.

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Fair enough. That's why I posted the hand. I am somewhat of a new player and am still learning; and I still have a lot to learn I know.

However, I still think that if you're a 30% favorite against what your opponants are holding but you're only putting 25% of the $$ into the pot preflop, it isn't necessarily a bad play. (or am I making a mistake in thinking that as well?) One other thing to consider - read Baldwin's section in Super/System. He mentions how in the right situation he'd cap with T9s or 98s, in addition to MP raises with suited connectors. It's where I got the idea to try it out.

Not to threadjack, but it seems to me there are at least 2 different schools of thought on HE. The one espoused by S&M relies more strenuously on mathematical precepts, while others I've read proscribe a more "fluid" approach, only relying on mathematical analysis for critical decisions. Am I right?