C/r'ing flops w/ A high no draw in blind defense

[gehrig]

i dont understand this, but i see good players do it so i must be missing something

how (or in what situations) is this better than just calling down?

sometimes posters will say they're going to call preflop with A8 or whatever and c/r any flop - how is that better than 3 betting preflop?

[Drontier]

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i dont understand this, but i see good players do it so i must be missing something

how (or in what situations) is this better than just calling down?

sometimes posters will say they're going to call preflop with A8 or whatever and c/r any flop - how is that better than 3 betting preflop?

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[climber]

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sometimes posters will say they're going to call preflop with A8 or whatever and c/r any flop - how is that better than 3 betting preflop?

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A preflop 3-bet (for most of us) narrows the range a lot more than a call does. The flop texture affects how seriously you take a preflop 3-bet followed by flop continuation bet by a lot.

The call and then c/r the flop gives you more fold equity more often.

[Subfallen]

Why would you ever play a hand just one way? A lot of times A-high is best, so get some value or something. I don't do this a lot though.

[aba20]

There is no easy answer for these things. It comes through playing hundreds's of thousands of hands. And is very dependendent upon opponents.

[gehrig]

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Why would you ever play a hand just one way? A lot of times A-high is best, so get some value or something.

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playing a hand with marginal showdown value passively OOP gets a lot more value from worse hands than playing it aggressively.