More curtains in the blinds

[jeffraider]

Why? Your hand can get you in trouble (like it did) and you're out of position to both a bad player and a good player. Is it like ripping up money because you can play so well postflop, or do you think that just getting 5:1 on this hand is enough? Would you make this call with this stack in an 800-chipper against unknowns?

[curtains]

I would never dream of folding this for half a bet. Too many good things can happen. Sometimes bad things will too, but I mean if the flop comes queen or ten high I have a premium hand in this situation, in which I can be confident putting all my chips in. This combined with the many possible draws and other good scenarios make this an easy call. I need to earn some chips somehow...folding with QTs against a weak limper getting 5-1 pot odds is not the best way to do that.

It's hard to really explain, I just know that you can't play this tight. btw I would have called if it was offsuit. The 150 chips in the pot are important and I need to fight for them. Again there are many top pair flops that are good for me that will earn me a 150 chip pot, or even more if I decide to check raise. Sometimes it wont work out, but you can't wait around for a stone cold lock when you have just 15x the BB.

[bones]

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Why? Your hand can get you in trouble (like it did) and you're out of position to both a bad player and a good player. Is it like ripping up money because you can play so well postflop, or do you think that just getting 5:1 on this hand is enough? Would you make this call with this stack in an 800-chipper against unknowns?

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I'm sure curtains has enough confidence in his ability to not get trapped to make this a profitable call. I'd probably call this in an 800 chipper as well. And not that it was likely in curtains thought process at the time, but there's something to be said for learning to play sub-premium hands in order to learn to play more difficult situations post-flop. It'll put some hair on your chest.

[45suited]

Why is it so hard to believe, that for 1/28th of his stack, the SB would call getting 5:1 odds with a decent hand here?

[jeffraider]

Okay boys I'm sold. Thanks for the info! Sometimes I take being a position nazi too far, I think.