Defending my $4-$8 Article

[Jim Brier]

It is true that once you limp in, then in the $1-$2 structure it only costs you 1/2 a big bet to call a raise but in the $2-$4 structure it is costing you one big bet. But in reading Dynasty's criticisms and I did not glean this out of it. You are agreeing that the current pot odds are the same but that the implied odds are better in the $1-$2 blinds. This would support the idea that you could call the $4 raise more often in this case than calling a $8 raise in the other case. But I still question whether it is correct to play under the specific conditions I outlined in my article when you have only two opponents. Dynasty made it sound like you should routinely call the $4 raise just like you would in a normal structure. I don't think this is right because the current pot odds are much worse than calling a single raise.