5/10 NL @ The Wynn

[Allinlife]

I don't think the call is mandatory as people make it out to be. I mean you are getting 5.7:1 odds and if your read says you are beat, you can lay it down. I often see these laydowns in limit poker but very often I see people in no limit calling 3:1~5:1 bets where it is pretty obvious they are beat.

As for calling for sole purpose of keeping your image so you don't get bluffed out out of pots, I think you just gotta learn to use this very information against them, and keep in mind that your image is pretty weak when playing future hands.

Whether that means leaning towards calling than folding in a boarder line river bet, or inducing bluff with TPTK against obvious missed draw, you have an image, so have fun manipulating it.

[aggie]

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So i call here even when my read makes my call -EV just to make sure my opponents don't make moves on me?

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You were getting 5.7:1. What did your read say your odds of winning were? If you were a 6:1 dog to win the pot here i don't think a call is such a bad thing. Obviously i have no idea how certain you were of your read. Based on what i have to go on (your post) i thought you should call. Not because you were ahead but because i thought you would be ahead at least once in 6.7 times. Obviously i could be wrong.