Re: AKo/A8s/T8s/KJs/QQ -- Some big hands
I'm torn on the T8 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] one. The issue is obviously not protecting our hand, since no better diamond is folding, but worse ones may (though a lot of 3/6 players will call with worse ones all the way). You may get people with middle pair and a low diamond or middle pair a gutshot or a straight draw to stick around for 1 bet, but not 2.
It does suck when someone has a set or two pair or a high diamond that they will call 2 cold with (or reraise with), so I guess the question is do they have hands that will put in more bets more often than ones that will call 1 bet but not 2 (and often make second best payoff hands)? I don't feel like doing a total analysis here, but given loose-ish players at 3/6, it's probably fairly close.
The A8 is probably fine either way. The overcard is going to be enough to give you a decent equity edge if one person cold-calls (since you are about even money with just a flush draw), although I don't know that the raise, on its own, would clean up an A often enough to be profitable for that reason alone, since you will get cold-called by worse hands anyway, may as well get some value along with that, but calling to induce overcalls isn't bad either I feel.
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08-03-2005, 02:41 PM
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